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The other week I was tracking down songs for my DJ gig and trying to find Madonna's new single, despite my personal opinion that it's highly mediocre and derivative. (Is that redundant to say when discussing her?) If you download songs, you are familiar with the phenomenon of people wrongly naming and labelling mp3s. Usually this is annoying. Sometimes it's beneficial. Like I discovered Juliette Schoppmann's "Only Uh Uh", which was mislabelled as "Hung Up" and the former is far superior. I mean, who the fck is Juliette Schoppmann? The best I can figure from some googling is that she is a Danish contestant and/or winner of the european version of American Idol. Of course she is. Of course.
In the Back to the Lab section of my recent music findings, I've been listening to KAM's album "Neva Again" from 1991. I like listening to political rap from that time that talks isht about President Bush and they mean the first one, but it doesn't matter. It still applies. Of course in the middle of his radical words he says some isht about whether fags and dykes need to exist. See. We were almost there. But I like the beats because it was pre-James Brown charging a million dollars per sample.
Back to new isht: my favorite recently released albums are Blackalicious's The Craft and DangerDoom's The Mouse and the Mask. They have a song called No Names (Black Debbie) that samples my favorite scene from an episode of Sealab 2021! It's Nerd-Hop.
I finally listened to some of the Mira Benari "Hip Hop Violinist" album, and they kinda skate the line between brilliant and corny. I need to listen some more, but right now I love the track with Scarface and I forget that he's one of my top 10 favorite MCs. He's got the Ghostface quality of being highly emotional and raw, but he's a bit more accessible in his lyrics. Not as many one-liners, but a better storyteller.
Other dance-around-the-room songs on heavy rotation:
Fire Fire by Fannypack
DARE by Gorillaz
Oh (Kardinal Beats remix) by Ciara
and Street of Dreams by Nia Peeples. I know you feel me.
Non-Music Question, but slightly related: Has anyone played the The Warriors video game? I'm curious to know if it's worth anything beyond kitsch value.
In the Back to the Lab section of my recent music findings, I've been listening to KAM's album "Neva Again" from 1991. I like listening to political rap from that time that talks isht about President Bush and they mean the first one, but it doesn't matter. It still applies. Of course in the middle of his radical words he says some isht about whether fags and dykes need to exist. See. We were almost there. But I like the beats because it was pre-James Brown charging a million dollars per sample.
Back to new isht: my favorite recently released albums are Blackalicious's The Craft and DangerDoom's The Mouse and the Mask. They have a song called No Names (Black Debbie) that samples my favorite scene from an episode of Sealab 2021! It's Nerd-Hop.
I finally listened to some of the Mira Benari "Hip Hop Violinist" album, and they kinda skate the line between brilliant and corny. I need to listen some more, but right now I love the track with Scarface and I forget that he's one of my top 10 favorite MCs. He's got the Ghostface quality of being highly emotional and raw, but he's a bit more accessible in his lyrics. Not as many one-liners, but a better storyteller.
Other dance-around-the-room songs on heavy rotation:
Fire Fire by Fannypack
DARE by Gorillaz
Oh (Kardinal Beats remix) by Ciara
and Street of Dreams by Nia Peeples. I know you feel me.
Non-Music Question, but slightly related: Has anyone played the The Warriors video game? I'm curious to know if it's worth anything beyond kitsch value.
