3.28.08 playlist

asobi seksu + walk on the moon
kevin drew + aging faces/losing places
desaparecidos + manana
elliott smith + between the bars
lick golden sky + untitled 03
the one up downstairs + champaign
chingy + holidae in
sonic youth + shadow of a doubt
sun kil moon + ocean breathes salty
andrew thomas + shiny garden
the field + kappsta 2
glow kids + we are anti-dialogue
tuk + low carb love
ghosts & vodka + cowboys & sailors
a mountain of one + warping of the clock
valet + kehaar
fat joe feat. dj khaled, r. kelly, lil wayne, t.i., ace mack, rick ross + make it rain (remix)

3.14.08 playlist

köhn + öhrosong
islands + rough gem
aloha + brace your face
the appleseed cast + february
blank dogs + outside alarmer
paper + underground
holy fuck + lovely allen
meet me in st. louis + the torso has been severed in mid-thorax
pretty girls make graves + all medicated geniuses
braid + killing a camera
death from above 1979 + romantic rights
knodel + o.f.r.
soophie nun squad + chicken fight
l. pierre + hike
pass into silence + blue
love of everything + bad year
joan of arc + me and america (or) the united colors of the gap
notorious b.i.g. + big poppa

3.7.08 playlist

sambassadeur + subtle changes
mew + mica
fuck buttons + ribs out
harmonia + keske
servile sect + stratospheric
spiritualized + lay back in the sun
kas product + so young but so cold
piano magic + crown estate
mus + anada pal primer mew
spoon + i summon you
wolf parade + i'll believe in anything
abstrackt keal agram + riviere
talkdemonic + dusty fluorescent wooden shelves
talk talk + the rainbow
cut copy + future
kate bush + hounds of love
map of africa + get outta bed
the ponys + kingdom of hearts

things that distress me

+fat joe's face
+the liner notes to r. kelly's "double up," which involve him writing to one of his daughters "i'm so proud you are doing good in school" and "you dance just like your mama"
+how alicia keys seems incapable of hitting any notes comfortably in "no one" (it is my contention that the song should have been written for mariah carey)
+the idea of the dream having sex (gross!)
+ray j having a viable single
+t.i. going to jail (again), even though in his movie "ATL" he tries to keep his lil brother off the streets (i trusted you!)
+whenever i hear an awesome new single on the radio i invariably say "i have to blog about this"

2.29.08 playlist

a place to bury strangers + missing you
sonic youth + shaking hell
holy fuck + super inuit
white rose movement + love is a number
metro area + dance reaction
bjorn torske + hatten passer
owls + everyone is my friend
holland + suburb on the euphrates
lucky pierre + angels on your body
nada surf + lucky
the smiths + half a person
alcest + tir nan og
amesoeurs + les ruches malades
a lily + i am to you
love is all + make out fall out make up
sunset rubdown + shut up i am dreaming of places where lovers have wings
comus + so long supernova
r. kelly feat. t.i., t-pain + i'm a flirt (remix)

2.15.08 playlist

deerhunter + fluorescent grey
xiu xiu + i do what i want, when i want
modeselektor + b.m.i.
new order + bizarre love triangle (shep pettibone extended remix)
dust bunny + unicorn hair pt. 1
dust bunny + unicorn hair pt. 2
crystal castles + airwar
F.D.A.S.F.D.A + guds nazister
unicorn hard-on + popular pigeon
justice + valentine
viki + full time 2
health + crimewave
black dice + gore
chromatics + lady
the blow + pile of gold
teengirl fantasy + portofino
goblin + suspiria
digital leather + lonely now
hurricane chris + ay bay bay (remix)

Usher feat. Young Jeezy + Love In This Club

SHEEEEIT. This song is so good. This song makes me want to kill myself it is so good. This beat is like m83 mixed with Timbaland mixed with New Order. Everything about this is white-hot epic: the cheeze 80's synth, that cascading piano riff, JEEZY ("It’s going down on aisle 3, I’ll bag you like some groceries")...welcome to the "My Love" of 2008. I am so fucking amped to listen to this song a thousand times more this week. I hope you are too.

AP: Pimp C's Death Due to Sippin on Some Sizzurp

(Associated Press)

"The coroner's office said Pimp C had sleep apnea, which causes people to stop breathing for up to 30 seconds at a time while sleeping. That illness combined with large amounts of prescription-strength cough syrup is what killed the rapper, coroner's Capt. Ed Winter said."

So remember kids, loose off the goose, not drank in the tank.

2.1.08 playlist

bel air project + magik
nouvelle vague + the killing moon
stephen malkmus + ballad of a thin man
magnetic fields + california girls
fennesz + made in hong kong
nini raviolette + suis je normale
astronautalis + meet me here later
slowdive + souvlaki
amesoeurs + faiblesse des sens
patrick wolf + don't say no
fikret kizilok + beautiful, how beautiful you have become
shoeb ahmad + i won't be yr best friend but i won't be yr last
final fantasy + your light is spent
most serene republic + sherry and her butterfly net
six parts seven + stolen memories
t-pain feat. akon + bartender
jay-z + roc boys (and the winner is...)

Chub&B: The Dream v. T-Pain

It's kind of strange that I never bothered to find out anything about The Dream until recently. His hit "Shawty is a 10" was ubiquitous during the latter part of '07, and "Falsetto" has been making the rounds on all the hip-hop & r&b stations in the area. But for a while, I mistakenly thought that The Dream referred to an entire group, not just one guy.


And a chubby guy at that. It wasn't until said Dream's debut album came out that I decided to look him up via youtube. The cover picture screams "hidden fatty" and the picture on the album's back cover pretty much indicates that Terius Nash is as chubby as the underage girl who just friended you on Myspace. Luckily for us, he can't hide his zoftig figure behind mirror shots and high contrast - check out the videos.





There are some members of the hip-hop world whose faces are instantly recognizable. We all knew what 50 looked like before Get Rich or Die Trying came out; young girls, mothers, and grandmothers certainly know what Chris Brown's prepubescent face is like. And there are some artists whose faces you may not know, but once you do eventually see that cover, you're like "Yeah, that's about right." When I first saw Sean Kingston, I was kind of weirded out that he was a pudgy teenager, but after a while it began to make sense..."Beautiful Girls" samples "Stand By Me," it's about retarded teenagers killing themselves, etc etc etc.

So why was I so worked up over The Dream's larger-than-life figure? It's more that when you hear an explicit (and cocky) boner jam like "Falsetto," you expect a suaver looking guy. And when you hear such a high pitched and young sounding voice, you expect someone closer to Soulja Boy's age, not Soulja Slim's. But after I got over my initial shock, I started getting a little excited. Perhaps this would be the man to battle T-Pain for the title of "Most Awkward Former Nerd in Hip-Hop That Still Doesn't Quite Fit in and Still Hasn't Quite Lost That Baby (Ph)Fat"?

Not quite. Let's keep this in perspective: The Dream sings about the involuntary vocalizations women make when he fucks; T-Pain sings about his Mini Cooper. We may have a while yet before we find another R&B star as enigmatic and dorky as Teddy Penderazdoun.


Granted, we must give credit where credit is due. The Dream is responsible for the delicious megahit "Umbrella" and the pretty terrible megahit "Bed". But that might be why his solo career seems to ring hollow: it seems as if Mr. Nash is merely attempting to capitalize upon his successful songwriting. And that might be the greatest difference between "Shawty is a 10" and "Shawty" - The Dream is just a regular hip-hopper looking to make money to buy a new car; T-Pain is ubiquitous not because he really needs the money anymore, but you can hear the pleading in his voice on every guest spot as he struggles to remain in the spotlight, to finally get some attention, just a little while longer.

Lil Wayne Arrested

(Reuters)

"..Inspection found 105 grams of marijuana, 29 grams of cocaine, 41 grams of ecstasy, and more than $22,000, agents said."

FREE WEEZY!

Snooper Markets

(Columbia Spectator)

Please let this be true. What would a Snooper Market sell? Premixed gin and juice? Fatherhoodies? KEYTARS?!

Snoop Dogg v. Kid Rock

schmap'n schmazz: ok
schmap'n schmazz: snoop dog
schmap'n schmazz: looks exactly like kid rock

schmap'n schmazz: what if they were the same person
schmap'n schmazz: a social experiment
schmap'n schmazz: white rocker vs black rapper
schmap'n schmazz: who goes further

In related news, no one misses "Bawitaba" and "Drop it Like it's Hot" is still the greatest song ever.

Grammy Nominations '08

(wikipedia)

All you need to know.

Wyclef Jean feat. Akon & Weezy - Sweetest Girl

Things that are epic fail about this song:
-Wyclef Jean
-Akon dabbling in a semi-socially conscious message (go back to "Bartender" and "Smack That" plz)
-Weezy's verse - Seriously, I can't think of a more tepid way to close this song out. I know you love money, Wayne, and that the money you got from this song probably paid for...something (does Lil Wayne spend money on things? He never even wears clothes...), but this verse was so worst. Weezy is usually hit or miss on guest spots (contrast the I'm So Hood (remix) on which even Busta Rhymes outshines him with We Takin Over and you'll see what I mean), but usually he's just weird enough to let it go.
-The fact that every girl in Uggs and a North Face <3<3 dolla dolla bill y'all

Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction

Jesus god. Snoop Dogg playing a keytar?! Call Bootsy Collins, the creepster 70's are back! It is my sincere hope that many children are conceived by way of this.

But wait...there's more. I give you: Snoop Dogg performing "Sensual Seduction"...on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Ellen looks so amped:

UGK feat. Outkast - Int'l Player's Anthem

The song that started it all. Everything is right with this song and the corresponding video. T-Pain leading the church choir? Andre 3000 and his weird brand of scottish-chic? PIMP C?! (RIP NEVER FORGET) Needless to say there existed at one time a period of my life where I would watch this video no less than five times a day.

Money Quote: "Hate to see y'all frown, but I'd rather see her smilin/ Wetness all around me - true, but I'm no island/ Peninsula, maybe"

1. Mix Three 6 Mafia, UGK, and Outkast
2. Roddy Piper
3. ???
4. PROFIT!

The extended version of the video develops the plot a little more, but is pretty unnecessary unless you want an extra 30 seconds of ear-candy. iTunes > Repeat > One

Jay-Z - Roc Boys

Jay-Z's "Roc Boys" was one of my favorite singles last year and with good reason - this was easily the swankest rap song of last year. Jay-Z's Black Republican schtick didn't fly on Kingdom Come, but on American Gangster he manages to pull off entrepreneurialism with style. Jigga's classic flow is top-notch here; it's hard to even pick out favorite lines.

Money quote: "Thanks to a little change, I'll tear you out the game/ Bullet wounds'll stop your buffoonery/ Thanks to the pastor rappin at your eulogy"

For those of you who haven't seen the movie, the song is pretty much based off of this scene:



Fader also has a "Behind the Scenes" clip of the producers behind the slick-as-hell "Roc Boys" beat, which fails to deliver somewhat, but is still worth a look:



Mazel tov. It's a celebration, bitches.

Birdman - 100 Million

d-rock: omg u see this ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8bri89oz6E
d-rock: most epic vid evr
madame psychosis: holy shit holy shit
madame psychosis: i feel like i am about to die
d-rock: yeeeeeahhhh
madame psychosis: god dj khaled
d-rock: hundredmilliondollarshundredmilliondollarshundredmilliondollarshundredmilliondollarshundredmilliondollarshundredmilliondollarshundredmilliondollarshundredmilliondollarshundredmilliondollars
d-rock: HE THE BEST !!
madame psychosis: this beat is so fucking epic
d-rock: fa sho
madame psychosis: omg the bags have little birds on them
madame psychosis: how much money did they spend on this video
d-rock: S and T were playing a drinking game w/pbr, where they'd watch this vid, and take a gulp whenever someone says 'money' or '100 million dollars'
madame psychosis: ca$h money trillionaires...we rich
d-rock: 'Make a lot of money'
madame psychosis: god bless

m-dawg: cash money billionaresssss cash money trillionairesssss
madame psychosis: WE RICH
madame psychosis: god how much money did this video cost
madame psychosis: i bet it cost more than the GDP of venezuela COMMIE
m-dawg: i think rick ross has a new game where he tries to throw out his first and last name as far apart as possible
madame psychosis: DJ KHALED aka "the best"
madame psychosis: affiliation: terror squad
m-dawg: RICKKKK .... i be up in dis joint, hatin on nigga .. etc. etc. ROSS
m-dawg: i hear in the middle of his verse a random "ROSS"
madame psychosis: god how much money do you think dj khaled gets paid for his spots
m-dawg: i hope alot
madame psychosis: yeah that's the ultimate sign that you have a lot of money
madame psychosis: you paid khaled a billion dollars to yell CASH MONEY TRILLIONAIRES
madame psychosis: omg what this video had a TRAILER
m-dawg: lavish
madame psychosis: and it spells khaled wrong!
madame psychosis: "khalid"
madame psychosis: omg

Introduction (skit)

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