Honorable MP3 mention: “Four Freaks” by DJ Shadow, Keak Da Sneak, Turf Talk, Mista FAB and Droop-E. What next? Tip decides to cover an old Kurtis Blow song? We’re game. The song stands out on this album like a flower growing through concrete and it’s a nice, however unexpected, display of T.I.’s versatility. “Why You Wanna,” however, is a curious aberration that takes things back to the hip house days of the early 1990s with a keyboard melody lifted straight off of Crystal Waters’ 1991 dance hit “Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless).” Not only that, but T.I.’s chorus for this inimitably radio-friendly track is taken from the Janet Jackson and Q-Tip smash “Got ‘Til It’s Gone.” As with his older albums, most of “King” is filled with a mix of synthesizer-sizzled club tracks and aggressively themed street anthems. 3 three film (not bad for a modest-budget black dramedy) his latest album, “King,” just dropped this past week too. Not only is his new movie, “ATL,” this weekend’s No. Given that, it boggles the mind just how face-melting awesome “Hell Hath” may end up being.Ītlanta’s T.I. But I’m told this is actually the worst song off the album - and this from someone who thinks “Me Too” is, in fact, quite good. In truth, it’s a better Pharrell tune than it is Clipse track: Malice and Pusha are more compelling when bragging about hustling money rather than flashing it. “Me Too,” which was recently leaked online, is the first single from the forthcoming “Hell Hath No Fury.” Produced by the Neptunes, the song opens with a rumble of kick drums and an echo of droning beeps and cameos the ‘Tunes’ Pharrell Williams boasting, “just last week, I was out in Aspen, me and Puff hopping off the plane, both us laughin.'” Label problems iced their career for a minute, but last year’s “We Got It For Cheap” mix-CD (arguably 2005’s best album that wasn’t officially an album) declared, “all the label issues coming to an end, Clipse coming soon, tell a friend.”
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When the Virginia duo of Pusha T and Malice powdered their 2002 debut, “Lord Willin'” with a kilo of cocaine-inspired songs, it predicted (catalyzed?) the current flood of crack rap. (From the Jive release “Hell Hath No Fury”) Frantic and frenzied, “Shakey Dog” never lets up its adrenaline-fueled pace until the end when a silenced pistol sneeze underscores his promise, “to be continued.” Can’t wait for Part Two. Right from jump, Ghost takes you inside a speeding cab where he and his two partners are plotting a bold heist of a drug dealer’s pad. “Shakey Dog” opens “Fishscale” and the first word you hear is “Scream!” On cue, the next beat brings a ringing, raging yell that becomes the dissonant loop powering this song’s relentless momentum. To be sure, “Fishscale” doesn’t break new ground it’s just Ghost at his best - rattling off rhymes with breathless energy and crafting cinematic pulp fictions that double as modern blaxploitation. That’s the genius of “So Sick” - it’s a love song about how painful yet cathartic love songs are and I don’t doubt that millions of mopers can identify with Ne-Yo when he asks, “So why can’t I turn off the radio?”Īs a veteran rapper, now on his fourth solo album, Ghostface is enjoying an unusual mid-career renaissance thanks to high praise appearing everywhere from hipster blogs to The New Yorker.
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Heartache is like beer goggles for sappy ballads. There are plenty of songs about love songs but most are defiant slaps against sentimentality: The Flirts’ “Jukebox (Don’t Put Another Dime)” or, more recently, Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone.” But when Ne-Yo croons, “I’m so sick of love songs,” he’s revealing a vulnerability that’s part of that post-break-up rut where even the most inane songwriting takes on newfound profundity. Yet it deals in something anyone (myself included) can relate to: the insufferable magic of love songs. “So Sick” is definitely playing big to the same teens who made Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” the monster ballad of 2005. Contemporary R&B often sounds too “young” to me, as if I’d have to be 16 again to properly appreciate Ne-Yo, Chris Brown or Keisha Cole. I admit, I first ignored “So Sick” when it began to creep up the pop charts in early February. (From the Def Jam release “In My Own Words”)
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Ne-Yo can’t help being ‘So Sick’ of love songs – East Bay Times