STACKS SO FAT RUBBERBANDS CAN'T HOLD IT

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Time for three of my favourite hip-hop joints this year. I'm really feeling all of these crew-driven bangers, where loads of rappers just pile into the track, do their thing, and pile out. Triumphalist horns which make the whole thing seem unstoppable are a stellar recent trend, so here's '5000 Ones' by DJ Drama ft. TI, Nelly, Diddy, Yung Joc, Willie The Kid, Young Jeezy and Twista: the first and last are the best.

And here's 'Dey Know' by Shawty Lo (not the original, the remix with Ludacris, Young Jeezy, Plies and Lil' Wayne, who is as SPECTACULAR as ever) (not a proper video). Like R Kells - I believe I can FLIZZAH!

There's also a NY Remix of 'Dey Know' with Maino, Lil' Kim and Busta Rhymes; Maino and Busta both kind of suck but Kim swags so fucking hard on it, you HAVE to hear her, definitely up there with Weezy F. "Whatcha talkin' 'bout, I'm that GIZZURL! I shit diamonds, and piss PLIZZEARLS!"

Something completely different: the never-not-good Pitbull crunking out over the top of, apparently, 'Destination Calabria', which I never paid attention to at the time, but this is pneumatic and kinetic and great for bouncing around to while getting ready to go out. Called, simply and aptly enough, 'The Anthem'.

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Cor! No disrespect to Crystal Waters but 'Destination Calabria' really needed more WOOMPH! and YAARGH! and this does a grand job.

Will check out the others in a sec - work has disabled embedded streaming of pretty much everything except Youtube itself so I have to go directly there and search 'em all out.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

WOOMPH and YAARGH are pretty much what Pitbull excels at.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Though I have to say, right now I'm humming the horn riff from Destination Calabria but mentally splicing in a speeded-up 'Fresh cappuccino with a mocha twist' over the top...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Pitbull's got the Spanish though.

Also NB: Pitbull's last single (with TRINA), 'Go Girl' (http://youtube.com/watch?v=469cXOUk0Ig).

[koganbot]

Listening to the DJ Drama and it's good, combining horn sweetness (like David Banner's "Fuck 'Em") with bubblecrunk. Very nice.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It's nice to hear Nelly on something so tuff, too.

[koganbot]

Enur's quasi-dancehall "Calabria 2007" is really good; the rapping by the late Natasja Saad (killed in a car crash last year) is very sexy, does a nice slow grind with her voice.

:D

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

OMG Pitbull v Destination Calabria sounds - and thankfully is - a great match. And even Lil Jon serves the track well. However, I think I may even prefer that Enur & Natasja thing that Frank just posted. The latter video's way sexier too. ;)