Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat. The premise is simple, we’ve asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. These are the songs we’ve had Stuck On Repeat.
:: selected by: V :: Kelis – Aww Shit! (ft. Smoke)
I had a lot of hope for Kelis. It seemed by 2006 that she was a top contender for Missy’s retired crown. Then, the unthinkable happened. She divorced Nas and reappeared as electro space Pocahontas. I like to pretend Flesh Tone was never released, and reminisce the good ol’ days when Kelis was just a bossy girl slurpin’ her milkshake and lettin’ the haters know that she could make a whole song talk shit. (Hicky-Hicky-Hicky)
:: selected by: BryanB :: Pusha T – I Still Wanna (ft. Ab-Liva x Rick Ross)
After getting blessed by King Kanye last year, featured on his GOOD Friday tracks and on his latest Dark Twisted opus, it’s good to see Pusha T, one half of the Virginia rap group Clipse, making some moves of his own. Fear of God, his new mixtape out this week, doesn’t quite hit the heights of “So Appalled”, but “I Still Wanna” featuring Ab-Liva and Rick Ross comes damn close. Pusha sounds likes he’s rapping through a cell phone or walkie talkie, beaming his bars from a fantasy prison cell, gloating about his renewed fame and riches but pining about the old coke moving days. Proving you can take the snowblower out of the grind, but he’s still gonna dream about blizzards and bricks.
:: selected by: Moneyworth :: Tennille – Phelps
The cover of Tennille‘s 10illematic/10FDOOM mixtape is so. Fucking. Awesome. I freaked out further when I found out it’s a mixtape over Nas and MF Doom beats, five tracks of each (I slept—it’s from the end of last year). And then I read that she works/lives/bros down with the Cool Kids and she’s from Chicago and she’s really cute too and wow. Now I’m not going to lie—I’m slightly let down having listened to the mixtape. I mean, it’s good, but it’s not as good as it should be given how amazing it sounds on paper; there are a handful of solid tracks and then a bunch of bullshit about zodiac signs or whatever. However, I admittedly practice affirmative action when it comes to girl rappers, and anyway she gets extra points for a conceptually great mixtape, so whatever, I’m a Tennille fan. And she actually can rap, and she seems like a down-ass stoner chick who doesn’t try too hard, and even though this is a song about her apparent crush on Michael Phelps, I could loop her rapping “Make it rain, make it rain, make it rain on me boy” ALL DAY. Download the rest of the mixtape here.
:: selected by: Jams Dean :: Casey Veggies – Ridin’ Roun Town
Wow. Talk about totally killing it, this Odd Future-affiliated Casey Veggies Sleeping in Class mixtape is one of the best and hardest things I have listened to this year. It came out in December so I am three months late (rappers, rap people PR, can you guys start emailing me this stuff???) but man am I so glad I caught this. I found out about Casey Veggies when Sir Michael Rocks gave him some twitter love and dude was right on. Casey has such a solid voice that demands your attention. The topic matter doesn’t change much, but the production does, and it succeeds on every track. So many good ones on here I could barely pick one. “Get Through” has some really clunky drums that beat over a soul sample, “30,000″ sounds so hard it could/should be a Clipse track. But I went with “Ridin Roun Town” because it sounds like a good summer jam, and it’s a great introduction. So, how many OFWGKTA affiliates are there now? Can you name them all?
