This is off the same DJ Eufonik mixtape, and is on the same over-sexed tip. This has got to make you smile. I almost miss the 90's.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
The Islet Brothers & Mos Def - Beauty In The Dark
I've been bumping this for a while: it's on my favourite sex/slushy mixtape, DJ Eufonik's Things You Do To Me.
Close harmony, and Mos Def's lyrics, make for a tight little R'n'B number. This is such a good wind-down song.
Close harmony, and Mos Def's lyrics, make for a tight little R'n'B number. This is such a good wind-down song.
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Mos Def - Ms. Fat Booty
This is from the dying days of the Golden Age: 1999. It's built on an Aretha Franklin sample, which has been chopped up like sushi. It's good.
Mos Def is in full-on parable mode here, to good narrative effect. I want to play this in a convertible one day before I die.
Mos Def is in full-on parable mode here, to good narrative effect. I want to play this in a convertible one day before I die.
Monday, 17 October 2011
Lil B - Motivation
I'm mainly on this for the instrumental, courtesy of Clams Casino. It's a big deal.
Lil B does his line in self-aggrandizing hyperbole on the top.
But that instrumental's a Gregorian chant for hip-hop.
Lil B does his line in self-aggrandizing hyperbole on the top.
But that instrumental's a Gregorian chant for hip-hop.
Monday, 10 October 2011
Kendrick Lamar - A.D.H.D
The production on this track is glorious, layered and skippy, but the lyrics are the standout. Kendrick Lamar has written a song which is dark, and sinister, and true. The bombast of West Coast hip-hop is suited to epic songs, and this is like a manifesto for our lost generation.
And his flow is perfectly fluid as he flips seamlessly into double time and out again.
Above and beyond this song, you can see how fast he's developing. The stuff he was making last year has the same tidy rhymes but had a monotonous flow, with none of the cadence that makes A.D.H.D. seductive.
I'm jumping on his new mixtape - the West is back this autumn.
And his flow is perfectly fluid as he flips seamlessly into double time and out again.
Above and beyond this song, you can see how fast he's developing. The stuff he was making last year has the same tidy rhymes but had a monotonous flow, with none of the cadence that makes A.D.H.D. seductive.
I'm jumping on his new mixtape - the West is back this autumn.
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
This is probably my favourite hip-hop album of the year so far: I love how the lyrics just weave in like another instrument. The synthesis of poem and music and rhythm is perfect.
Oh, and you can stream the whole album. Put this on and be swept away.
Shabazz Palaces - good enough to be shrouded in secrecy.
Oh, and you can stream the whole album. Put this on and be swept away.
Shabazz Palaces - good enough to be shrouded in secrecy.
Goapele - Play
Yeah, I went away again: Latin America called in the middle of the night, and like a lovelorn ex I went running back.
But I'm back, and I'm going to make it worth your while.
Remember when R'n'B was plausibly oversexed? Well, that's back. Goapele is my find of the week, and this song makes me weak. She has the most accurate voice, and this is precious.
Play by goapele
But I'm back, and I'm going to make it worth your while.
Remember when R'n'B was plausibly oversexed? Well, that's back. Goapele is my find of the week, and this song makes me weak. She has the most accurate voice, and this is precious.
Play by goapele
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