Officially killed today by the Guardian's Alexis Petridis in desperate need of a headline for his Migos review.
We'll all miss Noisey's favourite little Eskimo of a meme. Let's just hope it's rubbing noses with Jesus + the future employment prospects of those black teenagers Noisey got arrested for selling lean on Instagram.
PS: never forget the Beatles were/are a bunch of tax dodging wife-beaters.
Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've listened to most during the month when Team Drake finally surpassed the Nas Nation as rap's most annoying fanbase.
Other notables: Ty Dolla $ign & YG's remix of Nef The Pharaoh's Big Tymin' was a nice gesture but I'll never listen to it twice; the new DJ Mustard mixtape is the complete polar opposite of Ketchup - solid but I couldn't find a single track worth keeping; I'm avoiding the Gunplay LP because he hasn't made a good song since Drop Da Tint and Def Jam actually releasing his album has ruined my Gunplay is the new Peedi Crakk analogy; Nicki Minaj's useless ex BF with the stupid name should have hired Bobby Brackins to work his songwriting magic because Lifeline is not the I Hit It First he thinks it is.
Earlier today Werner Herzog announced he'd spent the last couple of years secretly shooting a sequel to Fitzcarraldo starring a CGI Klaus Kinski. In the original movie Kinski hired a squad of peasants to haul his steamship over a hill, in thie sequel he hires a new squad to haul that very same steamship through the neckhole of Anthony Fantano's t-shirt. Here's an exclusive shot from the movie's finale:
It's funny how hearing a song live in a 20 thousand capacity arena can make you flip your whole perspective. Back last december I dismissed Fabolous' Lituation purely because it wasn't as good as his other street single Ball Drop and consequently forgot about it. Then I experienced its searing baronial stomp blaring out in the 02 Arena when Fab opened for G-Unit a week or so back and I've listened to it on repeat in the shower every morning since, an 8 A.M pick-me-up from a wildly-inconsistent 37 year old industry mercenary whose zingers are still slick-as-fuck.
"Got your b.m in my BM, n*gga
she got taken - word to Liam, n*gga!"
Fabolous - Lituation
(From The Young OG Project; 2014)
For a wildly-inconsistent 37 year old industry mercenary who made his debut in 2001, Fabolous has been low-key overachieving these past 12 months: both Lituation and Ball Drop are everything modern N.Y street singles should be; his verse on the Hot N*gga remix was the only good thing about that clusterfuck and was a Westwood staple for months; 4 Digits was the sole highlight of the wack DJ Mustard album and should have been a single; and his Been Around The World remix freestyle finally made good use of a peak-Jiggy D-Dot beat which was previously wasted on a superfluous remix that just placed Puff & Ma$e's acapellas from the original over different production.
Sod all that, though - how's Fab gonna shoot a King Of New York homage video for Lituation and then not let Red Cafe play Jimmy Jump and not hire a Ray J lookalike to play Arty Clay?
Cool how Berner made better use of that glorious beat Lev Berlak gave him for Chapo on one of the highlights from Drought Season 3. Not so cool how Jacka posthumously rapping "I just wanna you proud, but you'd rather see me gunned down" on the hook makes me feel all type of ghoulish.
Berner & The Jacka ft. Rydah J. Klyde - One Sound
(From Drought Season 3 album; 2015)
Far be it from me to defend Berner, but his taste in production on the Drought Season albums is always impeccable and Jacka always managed to coax out a side of him rarely seen on all those Cozmo beats he's wasted. Thus, I'll be passing on the Berner-less edit of album number three that's now floating around because a Drought Season without Berner is like the Tank Girl movie without Ice, hair-metal Vampires without rice, or Doug's first album without Christ.
Always dug Coolio Da Unda Dogg on those '90s Mac Dre tracks he guested on (particularly California Livin' and 2 The Double R) but laboured under the illusion he'd never recorded any solo material until someone put me onto his Jackin' cassette EP from 1991 a couple of days back. Title track has me like "holy shit, why have Thizz never remastered this shit and reissued it?"
Coolio - Jackin'
(From Jackin' cassette EP; 1991)
Production on this is probably from some obvious '80s R&B joint I'm shamefully hitherto unaware of, but that main melody sounds like it was gaffled straight offa Brad Fiedel's score work on the Fright Night OST. Fangs for the head's up on this one, Frank.
What little I know about bashment is gleaned from your shows and parties, so please believe I will always defer to your expertise on the matter of current dancehall bangers. With that said, what the f**k is up with you playing Elephant Man's song over the Boof Baff riddim rather than the vastly superior Spice version?
