selected records in my £5 surprise pack from local hiphop shop

sparkle - told you so
(her post-r kelly record from 2000, exactly the kind of thing that should be in surprise packs! makes a good case for the r'n'b golden age argument by sticking obsessively to convention - stutter-beat destinys knock-offs, allusions to classic soul, annoyingly beautiful processed acoustic guitars, token track with production straight from the previous puffy club supremacy era - and still coming up with good stuff even when the songs have shit choruses ["it's a fact" and "into my life" are through-and-through hot though]. sparkle can only really sound agonizingly sad [like the amazing r kelly duet from her first record, "be careful"] which is totally [hilariously] inappropriate sometimes! unfairly ignored, no doubt.)

project pat ft juvenile - back clap remix 12
(loud records' excellent entry into dirty south [just before they fucked up worse than rawkus] with the dude from three six mafia over a southern bounce version of a fake mystical rza beat. it's executed sickly-sweet and sad instead of 'sinister', and all the better for it. juvenile sounds pretty fucked up!)

v/a - any given sunday s/t
(this is the cover i could see through the roughly selotaped plastic bag which made me pick this particular record pack, but, typical of my recent luck, it is the promo clean version! never mind, goodie mob aren't into sex raps anyway. i have only really listened to the first half. it begins with the worst missy elliott song ever [oh come on, that's not easy!], but that's ok because the second track is "shut up" with trick daddy and trina - just as good as "shut up" by kelly o but with high-gloss-like-underground-producers-can't-afford, 'dystopian' swizz beats [most of the record sounds swizz-like, maybe he produced it all or maybe it was released at that point in 2000 where everything sounded like him anyway]. the goodie/outkast song is unspectacular but still juicy like anything off the great dungeon family record. jamie foxx ft guru + common is perhaps the most terrifying credit/description since 'romantic comedy with nick nolte' or 'produced by dj spinna'.)

jamiroquai - you give me something 12
lynden david hall – sleeping with victor 12
tq – superbitches 12
(does anyone want these?)

wyclef ft mop + bumpy knuckles - masquerade 12
(omg really chunky, overcooked production with wyclef-special absurd touches [why is there a violin doing the "apache" melody at the end?] and mop ripping it like they’ve done every day for a hundred and three years. could anyone really not love this??)