Generic list post: june 2014

Obligatory round-up post of joints I've been feelin' these past 30 days AKA the month that Simon Price was racist on Twitter.

A-Wax - Trust Issues (2014)
Priceless Da Roc - Yike Stand (2014)
The 99 Percent - Shabooyah! (2014)
Selfmade - Let It Breathe (2014)
BeatKing ft. Kirko Bangz & Michael Watts - Friendly (2014)
Lil' Wayne - Krazy (2014)
Fiend ft. 38 $lim - Off The Porch (2014)
Mouse On Tha Track ft. C-Loc - All The Way (2014)
Raheem The Dream - Freak No Mo' (1998)
Travis Porter - The $ (2014)
Fabo - Flying Cars (2014)
Young Thug ft. Trae Tha Truth - Baby (2014)
CoCo Kiss ft. Robyn Fly & Ms Go Ham - Side Piece (2014)
RJ ft. Jay 305 - I Feel Like (2013)
Slim 400 ft. TeeFlii - Kno Where The Party @ (2014)
Disko Boogie ft. Slim 400 & Killa Twan - All My Goons (2014)
Agallah & City Lights - The Privilege (2014)
Lil' Chris - What Money Do (2014)

Previously: may, april, march, february, and january.

Feminism is back!

Not too sure whether Side Piece by CoCo Kiss, Robyn Fly & Ms Go Ham is the inverse Loyal or a well-meaning ode to not settling for unfaithful scrubs which ends up as girls slut-shaming other girls into accidental punchlines like they were Hell Rell in 2007 street DVDs. Either way, song is catchier than the Tetris theme:

"The bitch think she cute, the bitch think she fire
But that hoe on the side like she got a flat tire"

CoCo Kiss ft. Robyn Fly & Ms Go Ham - Side Piece
(From Zaytoven presents The Zaytown Sorority mixtape; 2014)


Catchin' up on last night's Westwood and he played this shit, so I'm assuming it's currently movin' on up the pecking order in U.S rap radio rotation and will soon receive a real video? Ya boy GerMane Greer right chea is findin' it very #problematic indeed that I'm first hearing this song via a 50 year old British bloke rather than through those American rap bloggers who regularly churn out opinionz 4 u feminist think pieces about every single Nicki Minaj freestyle. Riddle me this: why is it that the vast majority of active rap bloggers only ever bother to acknowledge music by Female Rappers™ when there's a chance to get paid for it?

Feel like we should probably use this post to talk about Robyn Fly's Wipe My Ass too.

I feel like Suga Free pimpin' the beat

Fallen down the Pushaz Ink weed carrier rabbit hole for the second time this week. We already know RJ got slaps with DJ Mustard, but he also has singles that knock with DJ Swish on the production & his 37 year old uncle from South Central lookin' ass Jay 305 on the second verse:

"Gettin' fucked to record? That's pornography
Rappers tellin' my story, no biography
Got a bad lil' bitch used to flock for me
She went to jail with her momma' lost property"

RJ ft. Jay 305 - I Feel Like
(From O.M.M.I.O mixtape; 2013)



If YG's neighbours can score themselves a DJ Mustard beat or two, then Suga Free over Mustard needs to happen ASAP. Would even settle for a remix of I Just Wanna Party with him doing the hook and replacing Yams' lean cup-carrier Schoolboy Q.

Brief thoughts on Drillary Clinton 2

(You so Fancy for this one, Spartorialist!)
Not really feelin' anything on this new Katie 'tape, tbh. Block On Tha Trakk really came through with the production that'll make you conscious of your own internal organs, but Katie's delivery is too ^^^^^^^^ when her whole shtick has always hinged on her sounding utterly ________, and there can't be a soul on this chunk of spinning rock who wanted a KGB X Wale collaboration.

R.I.P Katie? If so, you've had a way longer hot streak than Chief Keef.

Generic list post: jacked son like Curtis edition

Inspired by Ezale's Foreal Foreal and Trina & Lil' Mo's shemix of Cut Her Off, here's 20 remakes, homages, freestyles, unofficial remixes, and outright beatjacks that I now prefer to the tracks from whence they came.

50 Cent - 50 Shot Ya (2002)
G-Unit - Fat Bitch (2002)
Z-Ro - Mo City Don (freestyle) (2005)
KanYe West - A Million freestyle (2003)
Street Smartz - Ain't No Burna (1996)
Lil' Boosie - They Dykin' (2007)
E-40, San Quinn, B-Legit & Richie Rich - Timin' (2003)
The Diplomats - Dynasty freestyle (2001)
Max B - Have You Seen Her? (2007)
French Montana & Max B - Steak Sause (2008)
Lil' Wayne - Georgia Bush (2006)
Nicki Minaj & Lil' Kim ft. Gucci Mane - Freaky Gurl remix (2008)
Curren$y - Reagan Era (2008)
$tarlito - I Ain't Went Nowhere (2011)
DMX & The Lox - Get At Me Dog DJ Clue freestyle (1997)
Ma$e - Carshow freestyle (1997)
Lil B - Good Morning (2010)
Pharrell ft. Fam-Lay - This Is The Life (2006)
Big L - Doo Wop freestyle (1998)
DB Tha General - Rockin' In My Blues (2011)

Pushaz Ink 2nd stringers >> Pusha-T solo

Fresh offa his appearance on my favourite posse cut of the month, YG's mate Slim 400 has a new Mustard slap with him playin' the front, and it bumps:

"Smokin' on some dynamite, touchin' on some black tail
Mr Bring The City Out, you bitches know the detail"

Slim 400 ft. TeeFlii - Kno Where The Party @
(From t'internet; 2014)


File this under ‘the best 8bit beats production of june 2014’ and ‘joints for those of us who think When I Was Gone should've been on My Krazy Life for real and not just a bonus track’

It's ya boy Jeremy Dark Sun Riders

Wow, it's only the 2nd rap song about spacewhips in as many months. If A-Wax's Jetsons is the sound of a vintage 1956 Eldorado Seville Coupe taking off from the autobahn, then Flying Cars is what happens when Fabo from D4L returns to his second home of Japan to test drive a 2015 Lexus RX 350 which just happens to have an alien in the trunk. Started seein' spaceships on the castle from The Karate Kid Part II?

Fabo - Flying Cars
(From the internet; 2014)


Pretty apt that this has the word Flying in its title because, like Lil' Chris' Keep Your Head Up, that production sounds like it comes from a European TV commercial about tampons with wings. Anybody think of some other songs from the past 12 months with that exact same sound? If we can come up with 5 in total then we've officially got a new sub-genre on our hands: Tam-Rap/Rayner Muzik.

Generic list post: Non de Replay edition

Real instrument replays in rap songs really do suck, but then you'll know that already if you've ever had to suffer UGK's debut album Too Hard To Swallow or had the misfortune to catch Public Enemy live with their lumpen Mordred-soundin' ass backing band over the past 14 years. You could hire a dream-team group comprised of members of The Bar Kays circa 1968 & The JB's circa 1972 and they'd still sound like an '80's chat show house-band the second they attempted to duplicate an Ultimate Breaks & Beats staple for someone to rap over.

Here's ten great real instrument rap songs which inexplicably bucked the curse of the replay by some sliver of luck, and ten of the worst real instrument rap songs which turned A grade source material into Z grade session-musician shite.

The Good:

Too $hort - The Ghetto (1990)
Treacherous Three - Body Rock (1980)
Dr Dre ft. Snoop, Kurupt & Nate Dogg - Next Episode (1999)
The Fearless Four - Rockin' It (1982)
UGK - Chrome Plated Woman (2007)
Eric B. & Rakim - Move The Crowd (1987)
Lil' Wayne ft. TQ & Big Tymers - Way Of Life (2002)
Curren$y - Famous (2010)
Super 3 - When You're Standing On The Top (1982)
HD of Bearfaced - No Pretendo (2013)

The Bad:

Sugar Hill Gang - Apache (Jump On It) (1981)
AZ ft. SWV - Hey AZ (1998)
Nas - Disciple (2004)
UGK - Cocaine In The Back Of The Ride (1992)
Treacherous Three - At The Party (1980)
Scarface - Mind Playin' Tricks '94 (1994)
Eric B. & Rakim - To The Listeners (1988)
KanYe West - Hey Mama (2005)
Grand Master Flash & The Furious 5 - It's Nasty (Genius Of Love) (1981)
Elzhi ft. Royce Da 5'9 & Stokley Williams - Life's A Bitch (2011)