(From These Titles Are Getting Pretty Silly AKA Can't Sell 4 mixtape; 2025)
I slept on this one because Sandman's other current single Need A Woman is one of the most embarrassing Rap songs ever recorded: insufferable finger-wagging prudishness which makes 1996 Jeru Tha Damaja sound like Too $hort. Look Alive, however, is my favourite type of Boy Sand song where he mixes the ground control with the galaxy brain. The video even features the return of his apartment from such Martorialist-approved Sandman videos as Waiting On My Girl and Yup. Do It!.
Bonus beats: Sandman mentions Kool Keith on this song, so here's one of my favourite Ultramagnetic MC's deep cuts. Before Kool Keith mastered Sex Style, he dabbled in Romance Rap with this solo R&Bullshit ballad probably recorded around The Four Horsemen era in 1992/1993. Fresh for February 14th you suckaaaaz, there ain't nothing Don Juan Thornton won't do for the object of his affections. He'll take her out in the summer to see the Jets! He'll take her out in the winter to see the Mets! Keith doesn't mention wee-wee or doo-doo on this song and that's why it's a much welcome outlier in his catalogue.
(From New York What Is Funky compilation; 1996)
8 comments:
Thank you so much for keeping up with the good Sandman songs. Love a lot of his music but he has become too didactic.
I concur.
Feel like a lot of the "drumless rappers" need to listen to that Ultramagnetic track, recognize they can have some passion in their voice at least.
I concur again.
Speaking of "finger wagging" and "didactic." Did you know Wise Inteligent dropped a new album at the end of last year?
https://wiseintelligent.com/products/wise-intelligent-poem-chomsky-full-album?srsltid=AfmBOorefRDCPLmFS_0iyGyXJnMN6KGi59JgzP197aoo-aWzDTDhMZEA
I didn't. 💀 @ Poem Chomsky. How unfortunately topical.
Like BDK’s paisley shirts and Cam’ron’s pool video, Sandman rapping about not shaving his bonce was his Gerald Ratner moment.
It's true 😶
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