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I could do with a bit more memorable lines and less interpolations of Rakim lyrics on Weezy's verse but, shit, it's 2008 Lil' Wayne. A 6/10 is the best he can give right now. Post- "Get It Shawty" futuristic club Hip-Hop/R&B Lloyd is immensely more likeable and has much better songs than the old Murder Inc. straphanger/potential token R&B on a hip-hop label that always gets shelved (here's looking at you Rell and Christion) Lloyd. Shit, if he could have a whole album of "Get It Shawty"s and "Girls All Around The World", he might get to that mystical T-Pain level of pop consistency. Speaking of which...
T-Pain-"Karaoke".
This is the best video of the year. Thr33 Ringz manages to solve the filler problem of Epiphany making it easily one of the best albums released this year and also one of few modern hip-hop and pop-bred commercial R&B records that's worth a shit. Any of the records singles would've done, but Pain's sense of humor put this shit over. And, it helps how ridiculously grandiose the track is and how hard he shits on most of the rappers trying to get on the last few years. Plus, this is the only time Khaled's obnoxiousness actually came in handy.
This song is still fucking amazing nearly a year later. I've gone to too many college parties to not realize the power of a really good late 00's club track, which post-'06 trance-hop seems to permanently have this weird texture attached to it that can only be described as the aural representation of getting your dick grinded for the first time in a sweltering room full of brown people with loans. Its like something slowly unraveling while being both gorgeous and dirty, kinda like a Georgia O'Keefe painting getting double-dicked. This was probably on last year's, too, but who gives a fuck.
The Dream-"Falsetto"
Falsetto - The Dream Speaking of my dick, this song is like what "Buy U A Drank" was to me last year, a song I slept on because the artist's previous single turned me off, in this case it was The Dreams's "Shawty is a 10" as opposed to "I'm In Luv Wit A Scrippa". But somewhere between getting played at maximum volume in my friend's car a few months ago, Christian's suspicious decision to start listening to LoveHate and incessant play's of the record while I've been back working at the MET, I buckled around last Thursday and limewire'd the shit out it. Plus, despite people's tendencies put any old shit on during Myspace-generation sex, this shit could actually be fucked to. Like Portishead fucked.
Sidenote: Can someone at these labels start hiring me to play these passionate faux-80's metal/Hall&Oates guitar solos for R&B tracks a la Usher/The Dream? Shit sounds dumb easy. And I've got kids to buy Lil' Wayne CD's for.
Portishead-"We Carry On"
6 We Carry On - Portishead Like Phantom Limb, Third took me a few months to care to listen to. It wasn't until a late night Metro-North train ride to White Plains last month that I realized how fucking great the album is. Of the tracks, I chose this because it reminds me of when I was younger and got into Clinic back when Clinic were making good music, i.e. brooding psych-rock songs that sounded like this, but with a permanently sneering Ade Blackburn instead of a wailing Gorey-esque Beth Gibbons.
You don't make soft bookish love to new Portishead, you fucking blood-let to it.
The Black Ghosts- "Anyway You Choose To Give It"
Anyway You Choose To Give It - The Black Ghosts I was, like I try to do as often as possible, fucking around in iTunes browsing for really good electronica and dance music, since hip-hop and rock are albatross' creatively/consistency-wise and it's much easier to fall dick-first into a rare solid rap album these days than to find good dance music in this really odd clusterfuck of house,techno, electro (and allegedly rave's coming back) that is getting put on right now. And to follow a theme, this song is fucking sexy. The Black Ghosts are clearly the better half of the Simian brokeup that produced Simian Mobile Disco (who have their moments, but...eh.)
Tobacco- "Hairy Candy"
Hairy Candy - Tobacco I tried to like this album a lot, but it, like pretty much everything released lately is, at best, half-good. Maybe something should be said of diminishing returns and the full-length LP being too many tracks for most people making music these days to actually use to make consistent works. David Lee Roth was right when he explained his motivations for making EP's at first rather than albums, something Tobacco and Kanye should've noted. But regardless, this song is awesome, and one of the few good things to come out of my schools blog-centric taste in music.
Surprisingly, the album had some cool treats on it. there's this song called "I Love Your Girl" which is this really funny and fucked up thing about how the Dream is basically assessing how great you girlfriend is and how much she loves fucking him.
The hook is this line where he pretends to be the girl who, everytime she sees the Dream and her boyfriend comes up, she says "Fuuuuuuck. That niggaaaaaaa"
To get the proper effect, you have to imagine that in a falsetto (ay. ay. ay.)
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I wouldn't ever have imagined liking The Dream until now. But that song is really cool. Did the album end up comparing?
"Sexual Eruption" is probably the best recent non-dance track that fits awesome between real dance tracks.
Surprisingly, the album had some cool treats on it. there's this song called "I Love Your Girl" which is this really funny and fucked up thing about how the Dream is basically assessing how great you girlfriend is and how much she loves fucking him.
The hook is this line where he pretends to be the girl who, everytime she sees the Dream and her boyfriend comes up, she says "Fuuuuuuck. That niggaaaaaaa"
To get the proper effect, you have to imagine that in a falsetto (ay. ay. ay.)
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