She's the big bad wolf, it's a full moon y'all

Spin the batty
Spin the f**kin' batty if you the reason that they wineing on a fire engine, baby
Spin the batty, truth or bare
Spice - Sight & Wine
(From YouTube; 2016)


Will Spice ever get any media buzz or love?
Damn, gal - you're way too fine for a local blog
Ignoring the world's current Greatest Female Artiste™ should be a f**kin' crime
Pretending Rihanna & Drake's fake-Dancehall song bangs should be a f**kin' crime
So back to what I was sayin'
I added Sight & Wine and Born Wid It to my Spice playlist
Sometimes it's about the best, not the deepest
This could be you & Spice but you sleepin'

Generic list post: April 2016

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when Brotha Lynch Hung admitted he'd also eat the intestines like groceries. Why did Big Lurch cross the road? Because he just passed his girlfriend

Egyptian Lover - Kinky Nation (Kingdom Kum) (1986/2016 re-edit)
Mac Dre - Livin' That Life (1997)
Mac Dre - Pawns In The Game (1997 or 1998)
Willie Joe - I Wonder (2015)
YG & Nipsey Hussle - F**k Donald Trump (2016)
DJ Quik & Problem ft. Shy Carter - A New Nite/Rosecrans Groove (2016)
DJ Quik & Problem ft. Candace Boyd & The Game - Rosecrans (2016)
Nef The Pharaoh - BMD (Baby Mama Drama) (2016)
Mozzy ft. Young Mezzy - So 4Real (2016)
Miit Gang ft. Bully - Devil Get Off Me (2016)
Kap G - Girlfriend (2016)
BlaqNmilD ft. 5th Ward Weebie - Ain't Dat Bout A Bitch (2016)
The-Dream - Love Me Back (2016)
Dexta Daps - Haunted (2016)

Other stuff: wish Rae Sremmurd would go back to making songs which sound like Max Martin composed a single for Travis Porter because songs which sound like Makonnen composed a single for Travis $cott are not my type; if you've heard The More Things Change then you've heard the one good song on Grand Puba's new album, and you should have heard The More Things Change because it was featured in my Puba deep cuts playlist.

Very important question regarding 2016 R&B

The-Dream - Love Me Back
(From Crown Jewel sessions leak; 2015 - 2016)


Why's the best song on this Crown Jewel leak sound like what would happen if Terius composed Wheatus' comeback single for a remake of Say Anything?

Kid Capri Pants

"I wonder..
If I put you on a play would you keep that shit on the under?
If I leave you alone with my bitch would you be on her bumper?
Is you a real n*gga, my n*gga? Aww man, I wonder.."

Willie Joe - I Wonder
(From Doper album; 2015/YouTube; 2016)


The unlikely scenario where Willie Joe finally makes a song which neither sounds like everybody else nor features everybody else (though a 22nd Letter remix would be welcome.) A legit slap for the first proper weekend of summer, just make sure you don't touch down pon road wearin' some 3/4 length capri pants like Willie or #TeamShortsAboveTheKnee is gonna be forced to intervene. Turn up to the pub in pedal pushers, get pushed back into your taxi.

#Woke up one morning about 6 O'clock part 2

"I was against all odds fresh out the womb
My only hope was to soak game so I consume
My n*ggas chilled and parlayed, I learned the hard way
Scuffed and ruffed up, the game done scarred Dre
Back in the days all I knew was the 'hood and rocks
Lookin' for fonk and headin' straight for a wooden box
Sprung on the quick cash and gettin' a grip fast
Never really trippin' on how long would shit last
Earnin' my ghetto stripes in scraps and ghetto fights
F*ckin' with 'hoodrats, them tramps and ghetto types
Never givin' a f*ck, nah, not even sometimes
Just havin' a fun time, runnin' from one time
Trippin' and not even peepin' the shit
Slippin' and steady gettin' deep in the shit
I let the game control me, it shape and mold me
Then it treated me coldly, it pimped and hoed me
I was sellin' the crack but not stackin' a damn thing
And now that I look back, man, it's a damn shame
Couldn't recognise there was game to peep
Dank had me gone and my brain asleep
I finally woke up in the federal penn'
Broke than a muhf*cka, beggin' for ends
I was a midget, a small digit, forgotten
Game was stale, my name was rotten
Had life by the ass, my shit was twisted
I thought about the 'hood and how much I missed it
But the life I was livin' wasn't really shit
I was clockin' them ends but wasn't stackin' a grip
They had the world thinkin' I was runnin' in vaults
I reassessed my thoughts, improved my faults
And for the next 4 years I kicked and waited
Becomin' top notch while incarcerated
But that's the way it goes, you pay the price
When you're deep in the game and you're livin' that life"

Mac Dre - Livin That Life
(From The Musical Life Of Mac Dre Vol 3 album; 2014)


If there's a glaring omission from the Mac Dre generic list post I put together for Drew Barber, it's gotta be Livin' That Life. Dre & Khayree damn near made a movie with this song and the 2nd verse as quoted up top might be the realest shit Dre ever wrote. The remastered version uploaded here for your pleasure is a very slight improvement on the 1997 original from The Blackalation, partially because of the enhanced sound quality but mainly due to Khayree removing that annoying post-song skit about the bisexual with the Beamer. Word around the town, Dre intentionally mispronounced FILA on the first verse because he was planning on dropping a side-project under the pseudonym of Mac Malapropism.

Previously: #Woke up one morning about 6 O'clock.

Very brief thoughts on the DJ Quik & Problem EP

That smug face Wiz Khalifa makes when he realises the Max B and DJ Quik & Problem songs he's guested on in 2016 both comprehensively body anything on that last KanYe West album. A face which wears the expression of a man who lost the battle but casually went on to win the war:

It goes without saying that the track featuring Game would be one of the highlights on this DJ Quik & Problem EP because songs where Game and Problem team up are invariably great, and even Game's pitiful attempt to blow air-kisses at Dr Dre and Drake can't spoil some sun-kissed Quik production that's back in the Rhythm-al-ism zone.

Really doe, where's the reunion EP with DJ Quik that Suga Free was talkin' about on VladTV last year? Why U Bullshittin' is gonna be the greatest trilogy in Rap history if Sug' & Quik both do what they're both 'pposed to and follow up parts one & two with the ultimate fire 'n' brimstone conclusion.

The Devil Made Me Do It (no Paris)

"And late nights I'm be dreamin' 'bout sinnin'
Uh huh, uh huh
He in my ear like a n*gga better ride wit' him"

Miit Gang ft. Bully - Devil Get Off Me
(From Soundcloud; 2016)


Seems like every city in California has its own local Rap group making throwback mob musik like 2001 and The Jacka never existed. More DBCO than DB Tha General, the aesthetic is an artistic cul-de-sac for all rappers of this ilk, but for mavens of traditional Gangsta-Rap it's a nice neighbourhood to visit every once in a while when you're hankering after more of the same, just slightly different. Progress must be a dirty word in the rulebook of San Diego's Miit Gang, but good mob musik tunes that knock as effortlessly as Devil Get Off Me are as timeless as Boyz-n-the-Hood beatjacks.

Baby Bish Bash Bosh

Robin Schulz ft. Francesco Yates - Sugar
(From Sugar single; 2015)


How did Robin Schulz's House remake of Baby Bash & Frankie J's Suga Suga go from being a song which didn't even bumrush the U.K top 20 last summer to being the hen party banger du jour on the U.K high street? Hit up the Albert Dock branch of Revs any saturday night and you're guaranteed to find the dancefloor packed with women dressed as nuns doing things that'd make Lucifer blush whenever the DJ plays Sugar.

It might be scientifically impossible to record a bad version of Suga Suga as the Reggae remix proved when Major Riley & Happy Perez freaked the original with a (Baby) Bashment twist. Even the Grand Puba of 2016 could make a decent tune out of that remix and he's fresh offa dropping this century's worst Reggae-Rap song.