I've already explained how much I love Janelle Monae, and most specifically her song Cold War. Clams Casino, who has his fingers on the buttons for Lil B and Soulja Boy, amongst others, has also seen the light, and has done something beautiful with it.
Clams makes beats for rappers, so he's taken off the frenetic drum-n-bass beat, and got something quieter and slower ticking along in the background, with a once-a-bar boom to give us some landmarks. There's a great interview with him about it here.
This is stripped-down production at its best: an instrumental so good that it doesn't even need a vocal. Lil B put something on it. He's got some good lines ("growing up we were dying to live, now we're living to die") but overall he's just, erm, not that great? I love his voice: the sound quality on the vocal's a bit rubbish but you can still hear how good his voice sounds, a bass gutteral growl. But he just has nothing to say - he must say "Lil B" eight times in this. Ah well, enjoy the instrumental!
You can download Clams Casino's whole mixtape of instrumentals via Potholes in My Blog
Clams Casino - Cold War by mantequilla
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