eminem #1!!!

easily the finest number one of the year, perhaps the only record in the chart that improves when you pay full attention to it (although shakedown holds up surprisingly well! the only problem is finding the edit that's being played on the radio) and my favourite thing with eminem on it since "forgot about dre". a lot has already been said about "without me", so i will just add that the sound of his voice is incredibly exciting and i love it!

other new entries: dj shadow's new one is quite pleasant, but it's quite odd that he even released a single: the dude has the worst grasp of pop dynamics ever!

i heard rhianna's tune was really good, but the clip i just listened to sounded rubbish. will someone be arsed to convince me otherwise? jack cable?

"starbucks" is a fucking terrible attempt to assimilate the blink 182 pop-rush sweet-chorus thing, i suspect because there's very little that's sweet about the leathery-voiced old-man-in-young-boy's-clothes who fronts a.

and all you other new entries throwin shots at the charts, you only get half a sentence - fuck y'all niggas!

(only took me nine months to use that gag!)