Here is a Friday gem for you. Young Jeezy’s long awaited, almost mythical collaboration with Jay-Z and Andre 3000 was just unearthed by Funkmaster Flex. The song isn’t as earth-shattering as the hype might lead you to believe, but it’s holds its own among the songs that sound like UGK and Outkast’s immortal “Int’l Players Anthem”.
Continue reading: Young Jeezy x Jay-Z x Andre 3000 – “I Do”
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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 :: Kanye West (ft. Dwele) – Power (320 kbps)
Damn you Kanye West. I have tried to find something critical to say about Power but here we are days later, my head still bobbing at my desk with the volume locked on max and nothing but an aloof shrug to offer the haters. Bonus points for sampling King Crimson and while not everyone loves the Dwele cameo, I’ll personally ride or die for anything he touches. So what is it about Power exactly that’s so successful? The tribal beatline is obviously infectious, but its success lies in Kanye himself. Mr. West has been a strong contender for “biggest ego in the game” for years, but it wasn’t until this track that he rid his words of all subtlety, and oddly enough, by fully letting go and giving into his own narcissism he becomes honest, and in the process, a little bit more human —“Stop tripping, I’m tripping off the power”.
:: selected by: BryanB :: Pogo – Alice (128 kbps)
Kitsune Noir, a fantastic design and art blog, posted the new track and video by Pogo, and it reminded how much I loved Pogo’s Alice composition from last December. Simply put, for those who don’t know, Pogo takes snippets and sounds from movies, or creates his own sounds and constructs lovely, minimal “songs” from them. Alice is my favorite work from him, taking elements from the trippy soundtrack from the ’60’s Disney animated film and adding a skittering beat and thumping bass. It’s kind of chill-wavey, kind of ambient, and all kinds of wonderful.
:: selected by: danosaur :: Groove Armada – Paper Romance (242 kbps)
It was a long time before I heard the original version of this song (the Classixx remix was on heavy rotation). But when I finally got my hands on the new Groove Armada album, Black Light, I found out how good of a track Classixx were working with. Paper Romance is one of those songs that gets its talons stuck in your brain and refuses to let go. The unrivaled catchiness of the song spews out of a brilliant mix of synth, bass and loud group vocals. Groove Armada does a superb job making this song feel like it would fit as perfectly at a large outdoor ravestival (rave + festival), as well as it would at your next pool party. It’s one of those songs that gets your shoulders shaking, head bobbin, and has vocals easy enough to understand that you’re singing along by 2 minutes in. It’s a perfect song for the upcoming summer, “I feel your heat, I never wanna let you go.”
:: selected by: jams dean :: Ciara (ft. Young Jeezy) – Never Ever (186 kbps)
Recently I committed myself to start digging through that one genre I typically skip over—urban R&B. R. Kelly aside, this genre has never appealed to me as a standalone sound, without rappers or super-producers involved it feels like an awkward middle school dance party. Maybe Drake helped bridge me over. Anyways, in my search I came across this gem and have since fallen in love with Ciara. Most other diva-pop stars all seem to be trying too hard, but not so with Ciara. She has an attitude that occasionally reminds me of Brandy. 95% of the time, she just wants to be a girl. This is the dreamy jam you play in the car, after the party, as you drive yourself home with the windows down.
:: selected by: moneyworth :: Q-Tip (ft. Busta Rhymes, Raekwon & Lil’ Wayne) – Renaissance Rap (remix) (160 kbps)
For some reason I kind of dropped the ball on new hip-hop over the past year or so. It hasn’t been the most ground-breaking period for hip-hop releases by any means, so I just didn’t search very hard for new stuff beyond the obvious. It was basically A-trak’s Dirty South Dance 2 that made me acutely aware that I missed a LOT, so I’ve been backtracking a bit and in the process realized that I somehow slept on this ridiculously star-studded cast resurrecting the 90’s. You really need me to tell you how insanely good this song is? Even Busta’s verse, the one I was planning to gloss over, is killer; he makes like twelve exotic animal references.
“ATL RMX” is the latest compilation from the Adult Swim network, it features remixes of tracks done by a wide variety of Atlanta rappers such as Young Jeezy, Gucci Mane, Cee-Lo, OJ Da Juiceman, Young Dro, Pill, Playboy Tre etc. The remixes comes from the likes of HEALTH, Flying Lotus, Mad Decent, XXXChange, Memory Tapes, Salem, Dam-Funk, Starkey, Drums Of Death and a bunch of others. We give you the excellent Salem remix and you can download the whole compilation for free over here.