heatmakers ft juelz santana - where i'm from

you know when you're listening to the diplomats and you hear one of the heatmakers tracks and they've got some amazingly hot vocal sample and you're like "whoa... "i'm ready".... that's so true, i am ready". well here's the news: it wasn't a sample, it was one of these heatmakers dudes speeding their voice up like a fucking phoney. (check that recent de la song with yummy from tha rayne where jay so-called dilla makes her voice sound weird and too high! "sick of r'n'b bitches over bullshit raps [unless they are dehumanized with production tricks so jeru won't laugh at us]" de la are annoying!)

um, actually it probably was a sample, but "where i'm from" is heatmakers pulling a n*e*r*d move and striding to the front of the track, not to compete on rap terms, but to bring the rock. the "paranoid" riff rock! except really it's more like rock-soul, and they keep the usual clomp-clomp drums. (sometimes drum patterns are so perfunctory that it has to be some kind of statement!) i don't know how many heatmakers there are or who's singing but that's cool. it's a nice voice. and then there's juelz with dazzling duck and weave technical tour de france-type verse.

it's not that different from any dipset track really, heatmakers have always brought some rock love/hate, but right now there's so much fire that even this playful inversion of formula can sound awesome and special.