Friday, July 16, 2004
The single from SUIT, the grown'n'sexy half of Nelly's two new albums. He explains, "The Sweat side is more up-tempo, I would say real energetic. The Suit side is more of a grown-up and sexy vibe. It's more melodic, if you can think of certain songs like 'Dilemma' and 'Ride Wit Me.' Something like 'Hot in Herre' would be on the Sweat side." But what about the ultra-hedonistic "Tip Drill"-style side? That's what I want more of. He should know better than to do a whole album like this, didn't he get booed while performing "Dilemma" at a couple big events? He's not even really rapping, just doing that mumbly singsong thing. I kinda like how jarring the "I know I said some fucked up things" line is in the context of the smoothness, it kinda comes out of nowhere. The first time I heard this on the radio, the DJ came on afterward and said something like "I don't think that's gonna be a hit". I have an analogy that I haven't quite worked out the particulars of yet, but the crux of it is "Flap Your Wings" : "Hot In Herre" :: "Pass The Dutch" : "Work It".
Juelz Santana f/ J.R. Writer - "Sesame Street Shop"
Dipset are some weird dudes to begin with, but this is just bizarre, voices pitched up all high, maybe to sound like children, which makes it even more creepier, rapping over a sample of the SS them, "haze and yay, we flippin' like 80 waaays".
Kanye West - "Knock Knock" remix
When Kanye does G-Unit style mixtape karaoke tracks, he has the luxury of spitting over beats he already did for other people, and sometimes he's great, like on "Half Price" (where he fantasizes about all the female rappers he's produced over the Lil Kim "Came Back For You" beat), and sometimes it's just goofy shit like this, whining that Monica didn't ask him to be in the video. It's not really even much of a diss, it's just usual eager careerist Kanye shit, but supposedly Young Buck placed a threatening phone call to Kanye because of this track, which is kind of funny.
"Flap Your Wings" is better than "Hot in Herre," but that might just be cuz I ain't played out "Flap" yet.
Let 's be real--Nelly looks like he's about 17 and his mind works that way, so why the fuck is he tryna cut a grown'n'sexy jernt? We don't want homeboy to be mature. We want him to run a credit card down some broad's buttcrack.
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