no we do not like "in da pub"
and if you all thought we did you should read closer and stop listening to your worst premier beats of all time compilations.
what must i go through/to show you/shit is real
28.7.03
702 - trouble
i don't really have that much to say about this song except that it burbles along really prettily and yet warily and i love it so i wanted to put it on spizzazzz! i can't choose if 702 or tha rayne are better. at this stage tha rayne are a bit ahead because they don't have any neptunes songs yet. however, the big brother neptunes fiend types that e crunk was talking about think 702's neptunes songs are bad and boring, so that evens it up a bit. i really like i still love you. also, i still love the neptunes. tha rayne is a bit cuter. they have had troubles with their line up, but then so did destiny's child. i don't know, i've come this far and i still can't decide! i think i have to hear more tha rayne. here is a picture of them, i have bigger and better ones but it wouldn't be fair to 702, after all i am talking about their song.
i don't really have that much to say about this song except that it burbles along really prettily and yet warily and i love it so i wanted to put it on spizzazzz! i can't choose if 702 or tha rayne are better. at this stage tha rayne are a bit ahead because they don't have any neptunes songs yet. however, the big brother neptunes fiend types that e crunk was talking about think 702's neptunes songs are bad and boring, so that evens it up a bit. i really like i still love you. also, i still love the neptunes. tha rayne is a bit cuter. they have had troubles with their line up, but then so did destiny's child. i don't know, i've come this far and i still can't decide! i think i have to hear more tha rayne. here is a picture of them, i have bigger and better ones but it wouldn't be fair to 702, after all i am talking about their song.
25.7.03
tha rayne - didn't you know
no, i had no idea! for real, i didn't know who tha rayne were except for the very witty and bizzare remake of "juicy" they did with next last year, (next run out of biggie-style namechecks so they just drop boyz II men twice!) but now here they are fully fledged with beautiful voices but no picture cover (fuckers!). if you were going to put this in a state-of-r'n'b report it could go with "never leave you" for its scaled down crispness and clarity of emotion. there's something about the producer, rich harrison (he did crazy in love and the whole amerie album!), that fits with r kelly too - like, not hating r'n'b and trying to fuck it up so your jaded older brother likes it; they're not trying to trick you, even if they can come up with forward-thinking sonics. r'n'b will still be there when you leave and it will still be great!
no, i had no idea! for real, i didn't know who tha rayne were except for the very witty and bizzare remake of "juicy" they did with next last year, (next run out of biggie-style namechecks so they just drop boyz II men twice!) but now here they are fully fledged with beautiful voices but no picture cover (fuckers!). if you were going to put this in a state-of-r'n'b report it could go with "never leave you" for its scaled down crispness and clarity of emotion. there's something about the producer, rich harrison (he did crazy in love and the whole amerie album!), that fits with r kelly too - like, not hating r'n'b and trying to fuck it up so your jaded older brother likes it; they're not trying to trick you, even if they can come up with forward-thinking sonics. r'n'b will still be there when you leave and it will still be great!
19.7.03
roscoe - smooth sailin'
probably one of my biggest weaknesses is how prone to nostalgia and sentimentality i am and this song triggers all of that in me especially the desire to run off some corny prose about shimmery asphalt. i would have too except that today i've been stuck inside all day with a motherfucker of a head cold doped up to my watery red rimmed eyeballs and shuffling around the house in tatty grey ug boots. i feel cold and ugly and bored. young roscoe is high and fly and enjoying the sunshine. i can almost remember what that's like!
probably one of my biggest weaknesses is how prone to nostalgia and sentimentality i am and this song triggers all of that in me especially the desire to run off some corny prose about shimmery asphalt. i would have too except that today i've been stuck inside all day with a motherfucker of a head cold doped up to my watery red rimmed eyeballs and shuffling around the house in tatty grey ug boots. i feel cold and ugly and bored. young roscoe is high and fly and enjoying the sunshine. i can almost remember what that's like!
17.7.03
pink - feel good time
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we went to see charlie's angels: full throttle yesterday. it is clearly one of the best films ever made, which has added to my love for this already strangely likeable song. i suppose the main draw is william orbit - there, i said it! i mean pink is ok, i still like her voice enough, but orbit's dinky mad-professor production rewards people who listen too closely and care about stupid little sounds they hear on the radio. when things happen like the little crashing drums bridge on "feel good time", i want to hug him and say hey dude, thanks for caring because you didn't even have to put that in there! in fact, it makes little difference considering you have this mediocre chorus and a completely useless breakdown, but you put it there anyway especially for me to get a tiny rush from!
* sorry but pink and orbit both look terrible
*
we went to see charlie's angels: full throttle yesterday. it is clearly one of the best films ever made, which has added to my love for this already strangely likeable song. i suppose the main draw is william orbit - there, i said it! i mean pink is ok, i still like her voice enough, but orbit's dinky mad-professor production rewards people who listen too closely and care about stupid little sounds they hear on the radio. when things happen like the little crashing drums bridge on "feel good time", i want to hug him and say hey dude, thanks for caring because you didn't even have to put that in there! in fact, it makes little difference considering you have this mediocre chorus and a completely useless breakdown, but you put it there anyway especially for me to get a tiny rush from!
* sorry but pink and orbit both look terrible
14.7.03
ms dynamite - the jump off freestyle
nobody seemed to take any interest in it, but the uk rmx of ludacris' "southern hospitality" was hot like fire - especially the ms dynamite verse, where she sounds ready to burst from crazy superthug dancehall energy and just being on that beat. i would get mad excited being on "southern hospitality" too, even if i was playing fruity loops synth or something. now here she is riding another widely-praised super-producer beat - so what kind of shitty-ass flow is this?? "i'm still the voice of the youth/i speak the truth/that's why the press don't like me." it's all plain and smoothed out with no deep-ragga-voice/pretty-twee-voice contrast! possible reasons for this lameness:
1) "the jump off" is a terrible beat. for real, it is one of those beats you can convince yourself is hot without ever wanting to listen to it or dance to it. just because it has some clapping or whatever and it's timbaland! it's also fucking terrible for all mcs! it has already sucked the life out of lil kim and ms dynamite is its next victim.
2) dy is changing her flow for american headz because they can only feel plain-speaking, sensible flows and they don't want any aggro dancehall vibes (like sean paul) (?!?!) (there's also a rmx of "dy-na-mi-tee" with nas on the guest verse circulating on american mix-cds, thankfully with no bizzare concession to an imaginary conservative yank audience.)
3) maybe she has been like this for ages, i couldn't be bothered to listen to a little deeper all the way through. there is such a thing as loving salaam remi too much!
4) it's just a freestyle to tide things over till she gets some official stuff out and i'm taking it way too seriously.
nobody seemed to take any interest in it, but the uk rmx of ludacris' "southern hospitality" was hot like fire - especially the ms dynamite verse, where she sounds ready to burst from crazy superthug dancehall energy and just being on that beat. i would get mad excited being on "southern hospitality" too, even if i was playing fruity loops synth or something. now here she is riding another widely-praised super-producer beat - so what kind of shitty-ass flow is this?? "i'm still the voice of the youth/i speak the truth/that's why the press don't like me." it's all plain and smoothed out with no deep-ragga-voice/pretty-twee-voice contrast! possible reasons for this lameness:
1) "the jump off" is a terrible beat. for real, it is one of those beats you can convince yourself is hot without ever wanting to listen to it or dance to it. just because it has some clapping or whatever and it's timbaland! it's also fucking terrible for all mcs! it has already sucked the life out of lil kim and ms dynamite is its next victim.
2) dy is changing her flow for american headz because they can only feel plain-speaking, sensible flows and they don't want any aggro dancehall vibes (like sean paul) (?!?!) (there's also a rmx of "dy-na-mi-tee" with nas on the guest verse circulating on american mix-cds, thankfully with no bizzare concession to an imaginary conservative yank audience.)
3) maybe she has been like this for ages, i couldn't be bothered to listen to a little deeper all the way through. there is such a thing as loving salaam remi too much!
4) it's just a freestyle to tide things over till she gets some official stuff out and i'm taking it way too seriously.
7.7.03
m.o.p. ft jay-z - put it in the air
that mtv dude who's taken over radio one's evening session is terrifying: he sang along to most of "shook ones pt 2" and keeps mimicking dizzee at the start of "fix up look sharp". it's rare for me to listen to the evening session but i don't think lamacq ever rhymed over mid-nineties grimy hiphop classics. at first it was scary and vaguely embarrassing, but it's understandable if zane is letting out the frustration that must come from sitting through a live 'cooper temple clause' set. i gave this a lot of thought and decided that if i was on radio one i would probably rhyme over stuff too in a stupid attempt to convey my love of hiphop and prove that i know the words. (knowing the words is important though, in fact it might be the most important thing ever - really, if you listen to a lot of hiphop and you can't recite whole verses then maybe you are listening to the wrong mcs!)
i mention this because zane will undoubtedly love "put it in the air", and because it is the accidental transatlantic cousin of "fix up look sharp" - hyperreal, unadorned classic drum sounds and some beautiful voices. the end. i don't remember where these sounds were used before but it probably didn't have the same mcs on it so who cares (ok, i do). i like it that m.o.p. don't always get good beats because when something like this (or "ante up", or "stick to ya gunz") comes along it's more shocking. and look how much love they have for each other!
that mtv dude who's taken over radio one's evening session is terrifying: he sang along to most of "shook ones pt 2" and keeps mimicking dizzee at the start of "fix up look sharp". it's rare for me to listen to the evening session but i don't think lamacq ever rhymed over mid-nineties grimy hiphop classics. at first it was scary and vaguely embarrassing, but it's understandable if zane is letting out the frustration that must come from sitting through a live 'cooper temple clause' set. i gave this a lot of thought and decided that if i was on radio one i would probably rhyme over stuff too in a stupid attempt to convey my love of hiphop and prove that i know the words. (knowing the words is important though, in fact it might be the most important thing ever - really, if you listen to a lot of hiphop and you can't recite whole verses then maybe you are listening to the wrong mcs!)
i mention this because zane will undoubtedly love "put it in the air", and because it is the accidental transatlantic cousin of "fix up look sharp" - hyperreal, unadorned classic drum sounds and some beautiful voices. the end. i don't remember where these sounds were used before but it probably didn't have the same mcs on it so who cares (ok, i do). i like it that m.o.p. don't always get good beats because when something like this (or "ante up", or "stick to ya gunz") comes along it's more shocking. and look how much love they have for each other!
1.7.03
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