Stuck On Repeat / #71
01 13 2012
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.
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SELECTED BY: V–MINDLESS DRUG HOOVER – DON’T TAKE ECSTASY
Nowadays the dangers of ecstasy include, but are not limited to: feathers, hula hoops, day-glo body paint, and death by Skrillex stampede. But let us travel back to a simpler time, 1996 to be exact, when swallowing a pill still had some rogue fun about it, and a busker by the name of Mindless Drug Hoover recorded this cheeky, sing-along PSA for the permanently smiley-faced.
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SELECTED BY: MONEYWORTH–RICK ROSS – RICH FOREVER (FT. JOHN LEGEND) (PROD. BY DVLP)
I will forever remember 2011 as the year we almost lost Rick Ross. God that would have been so fucked up! But luckily for mankind multiple seizures on private jets don’t really mean shit to him, so we don’t have to experience the emptiness of a world without the Bawse. I feel like Rick Ross is a far more complicated person than many people give him credit for. For one, he might be one of the world’s foremost historians of sunglasses. But I think he’s been pushing himself lyrically in the past year or so; I love the shit out of “BMF”, like everyone else in the world, but when I heard his verse on “Lord Knows” (off Take Care) I got the impression the people Ross has been working with recently (and yeah, most notably Drake) have had a good influence on him. His mixtape Rich Forever dropped last week and is full of the expected trap hits (which are fucking awesome), but lyrically they are full of these subtle little details (“crab legs with the heavy butter”) that really make the mixtape. Of course he collaborates with everyone: Diddy, Kelly Rowland, Nas, Pharrell, Drake, Meek Mill, Future, etc. It’s the title track with John Legend, though, that stood out to me, particularly in terms of his lyrical development (and I’m not a massive John Legend fan). This song is destined to be all over the radio, but it’s a good thing. Rozay, I hope you truly are rich forever. You deserve that.
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SELECTED BY: JAMS DEAN–SHOW YOU SUCK – ALL LOC EVERYTHING (PROD. BY FLOSSTRADAMUS)
ShowYouSuck has been grinding his ass off lately playing shows in every corner of Chicago, and tonight is his album release party! For those unfamiliar with the man also known as Clinton Sandifer, he is a barrel-chested man with a burning passion for pizza. He also raps awesomely, or terribly, depending on when you ask him, but his live shows bring more energy than most zoos. Fellow Chicago homies Flosstradamus lent their skills to produce “All Loc Everything”, a banging track that you should probably turn up like real real loud, and then head over to Reggie’s tonight for the party. See you there.
