August 2010
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WatchYo Gotti - Mirror (Jive, 2010)
Yo Gotti’s Shawty Redd produced banger, off the severely overlooked Cocaine Muzik 4.5. Live From The Kitchen coming never, it seems; oh well, as long as he keeps up the CM series who needs a studio album? Video’s cool, featuring an adorable little kid, something you don’t see often in rap music videos, or at least not in 2010.
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WatchRick Ross - Hard In The Paint (freestyle) (Internet, 2010)
The resemblance is uncanny.
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Lil B - Rain In England (Pre-Order Now) →
Pre-order Lil B’s ambient spoken-word album in vinyl LP or CD format on Weird Forest now. It releases September 20th.
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WatchE-40 (feat. Laroo, The DB’z, Droop-E & B-Slimm) - Spend The Night (E1, 2010)
the Bjork-sampling babymaking jam from 40-Water’s Night Shift gets the visual treatment, and features most of the Sick Wid It roster.
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WatchGucci Mane (feat. Waka Flocka Flame) - Bite Me (1017 Brick Squad/Warner Bros, 2010)
The start of this video is an unknown Wooh Da Kid track, produced by Lex Luger, which he performs in a Ferrari. Random as fuck, but that song bangs. That’s not what’s important here - as expected, Waka and Gucci have returned to collaborating, not that it’s been so long since we’ve heard a...
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Justin Bieber (feat. Raekwon & Kanye West) -... →
WHY IN GOD’S (AND NOT THAT GOD) NAME DOES THIS EXIST?
I wanted a Rae and Ye collaboration for a long time - I was dissapointed there wasn’t one on OB4CL2. Kanye is the spiritual successor of what RZA was doing so long ago, only he continues to progress to this day whereas RZA decided to do movie scores because it was far more lucrative and his production style was getting far too...
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WatchGudda Gudda (feat. Waka Flocka Flame) - Lock My CEO Up (Young Money, 2010)
I remember when this was originally Waka’s song, on Twin Towers (a lotta hits came from that collaboration tape, surprising considering almost none of the hits were collaborations). It makes sense, obviously, for Gudda to have jumped on this track, but the original version of it was far better. Gudda’s a very...
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WatchSoulja Boy & Lil B - Swag OD (SODMG, 2010)
More from S. Beezy and the Based God; apparently on the upcoming Pretty Boy Millionaires 2. Soulja actually parodies his parody here, randomly inserting Shortbus Shawty mid-way through his verse. I don’t understand the quality of the production here, though; both Soulja and B can produce, and this sound like neither’s typical production....
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The Pack - Wolfpack Party [REVIEW]
The Pack can be seen on the front of their album cover, at a bar, with each member having a white or Asian girlfriend (whose idenity is masked by the disfiguration of their faces, for privacy I’d assume). Their album is perfectly summed up by the cover and album title; only on a couple of the 19 tracks present do The Pack ever cover anything beyond the club. If you’re not a fan of...
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Waka Flocka Flame - Flocka Nation →
A very high quality unofficial Flocka mixtape, which includes a lotta songs you don’t have if you haven’t been keeping up with his single-song output (and I haven’t). There’s no DJ, and the cover art’s dope. That should be enough until Flockaveli drops.
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Pimp C (feat. Bun B & Drake) - What Up? →
The first leak off the Naked Soul Of Sweet Jones, which’ll probably be better than Trill O.G. in reality. That’s some campy artwork, but regardless, I’m still excited for some unreleased Pimp. I know that a lotta of his fanbase is not going to be happy with the inclusion of Drake here, but if it gets Pimp’s album released, what’s the problem? I think this song is...
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WatchKanye West & Jay-Z (feat. Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver) - Monster (Roc-something?, 2010)
This is the first leak off of an upcoming collaboration EP between Kanye Tudda & Young Hov, featuring Ricky and Nicki (who Ye believes to be a monster? Hopefully he was referring to this song with that statement), as well as indie-folk band Bon Iver. The EP’s called Watch The Throne,...
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WatchLil Scrappy - Suicide (mixtape, 2010)
O-K-K-KAY!
Like Fabolous before him, Lil Scrappy just discovered the Gravediggaz and decided to make a song based around the classic 1-800 Suicide. Remember when Scrappy had a promising career? He was Lil Jon’s star prodigy, had a hit single with No Problem, and seemed like he would become the star that people like Jeezy ended up being? Remember when...
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WatchFabolous - Lights Out (I Don’t See Nobody) (Def Jam, 2010)
This is going to be on the retail EP version of TINC2, and features a Jay-Z sampled and production from THAT NIGGA LEX LUGER. Torture Rack Shawty provided a dope backdrop for Loso to deliver some well-executed, albeit slightly awkward bravado. Although Loso sounds like he could grow accustomed to Lex’s production over time,...
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WatchThe Pack - Wolfpack Party (SMC, 2010)
This song and its eponymous album absoutely slaps. Expect a review of it coming soon; best rap group album this year?
(were there any other group rap albums this year? That’s a serious question..)
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WatchYo Gotti - BMF Freestyle (Mixtape, 2010)
I think I’m G-Train (who?!)
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WatchBun B (feat. T-Pain) - Trillionaire (Rap-A-Lot, 2010)
My favorite song on Trill OG gets a music video.
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TheFader: Odd Future's Dystopian Weed Raps →
so, I’m beginning to believe that The Fader is full of dudes who do nothing but follow Tumblin’ Erb and Pitchfork all day, as the mixture of Odd Future, Waka Flocka, Beach House, and a gang of Witchhouse bands is just too closely related to everything I see Noz and the Pitchfork gang touching on months earlier. Regardless, Odd Future is getting some shine from bigger publications now,...
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WatchLil B - Cold War Pt. 1 (internet, 2010)
Lil B’s recently released track gets the quick video treatment, shot in a cemetery. Dope shit though; real shit.
Nigga we dyin’ over motherfuckin’ jewelry/masculine niggas actin’ hard for reactions/all for the bitches, all for the fashion/niggas 35 actin’ 25/while i sit back in my room and think…
this may or may not be...
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WatchWaka Flocka Flame - Luv Dem Gun Sounds (1017 Brick Squad/Warner Bros, 2009)
So, the cult-favorite Waka track that first appear on his Twin Towers mixtape with Slim Dunkin finally gets the visual treatment; again, Waka is still digging in his Salute Me Or Shoot Me crates for hits, and somehow, it wouldn’t surprise me if this became a moderate one despite its gun talk and completely devoid of...
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Gucci Mane - Jewelry Selection [REVIEW]
Like I said in my Mr. Zone 6 review, Gucci finally found his place as an artist; which meant that most of his experimentation was exchanged for a very well crafted collection of flows, and a more prominent focus on proving he can rap well to his haters. Gucci’s been something of a rapping phenomenon since 2008 (around the time he dropped The Movie/Gucci Sosa), and even to this day he...
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WatchRick Ross - White Sand II (Maybach Music/Def Jam, 2010)
The sequel to last year’s White Sand that was featured on The Albert Anastasia EP gets a video, minus Triple C’s verses with the addition of a Diddy outro. Fair trade.
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WatchGucci Mane - Trap Talk (1017 Brick Squad/Warner Bros, 2010)
This video picks up where Making Love To The Money left off, and features a Cuban playing with flour. Also, a man getting electrocuted.
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Kanye West (feat. Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz) - Power... →
Not one of Jay’s best verses in recent memory (maybe Free Mason and Light Up were just flukes? Maybe BP3 Hov is here to stay? He needs to either hang it up or start talking about coke or being a businessman again), but Kanye once again proves why he is superior to Jay post-false-retirement. When did Swizz become such a sample heavy producer anyway? I mean, I like his new style of...
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WatchDrake (feat. Lil’ Wayne) - Miss Me (Young Money/Universal, 2010)
I’m still a fan of this song, and I think the video is, uh, expensive? The video makes no sense though. How does this song warrant molotov cocktails, burning barrels, lone single strippers (YES, this is a strip-club anthem, but one going dolo?), pyro, and fenced in areas? This looks like the old opening to Monday Night...
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DJ Drama & Shawty Lo - Bowen Homes Carlos (Gangsta... →
sounds good so far, even though some tracks are rehashed.
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