Saturday, June 05, 2004
E. Ness comes out swinging, "every rapper got Da Band at the butt of they jokes, all in they punchlines, screamin' niggas is broke"! The combination of Ness constantly sounding like needs to clear his throat and Dofat's terrible drums makes it so boring that it's hard to even catch if there's any hot lines past that, though.
Monica - "U Should've Known Better"
Compared to her last couple singles, this is on a more generic R&B production tip, it sounds like an Usher ballad, complete with the cheesy guitar solo at the end. But the lyric gets to me, sweet but also kinda sad, saying she'll always be there for him, but like he already did something stupid to jeopardize what they had. It still weirds me out to hear "ride or die" used as a pledge of romantic devotion in love songs, even though Lil Mo did it on "4Ever" too. Young Buck is in the video, and I guess after the last couple Alicia Keys videos with Mos and Meth, it's officially a trend for R&B chicks to cast rappers who aren't on the song or really involved with them as the love interest in their videos.
Shaquille O'Neal - "How To Rob The League"Shaq goes all Fiddy on the NBA, "I got three rings, foo, Yao Ming, boo!". He also does a freestyle over the "Renegade" on the same Streetsweepers mixtape, and at the end he says "I don't have to do albums no more, already did six...two platinum, two gold...and two wood...but I'm still too good". Dunno if those sales figures are true, but if so, that's impressive, I didn't even know he had that many. AMG only lists 5, though, so maybe he's counting the Kazaam OST.