I rarely have anything important or interesting to say, but if I do, you can usually count on me to say it in a fairly entertaining way. For the most part, I will use this blog because it seems like a fun thing to play with. Like the rest of my phases, this will likely burn out quickly. Instead of a blaze of glory, however, it will simply smolder until someone steps on it like an irritating fire just begging to be extinguished.
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Posts tagged: Music
B.o.B. (feat. Lil Wayne): Strange Clouds
I hate when Weezy represents his colors (hey, it’s just a neighborhood thing), but I’ll let it slide on this track and on No Love.
Eminem (feat. Lil Wayne): No Love
Another track off of Recovery (out June 22nd!) and I’ve said a lot about Lil Wayne over the years and complained about how he makes almost too much music, which waters down his good music (most of his mixtapes, guest spots, and Tha Carter III) with crap like anything he’s ever done with Birdman or his “rock” album (ugh). However, this song is something else. Eminem’s verse is pretty good even though it doesn’t really get going until about 3:10 into the song, but Wayne’s verse…WOW. I mean, seriously, WOW. I am not what you would even consider a casual fan of Lil Wayne, but his verse in this song is one of my favorite rap verses of the past…I don’t know…fifteen years.
Lil Wayne:
Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower,
But it’s fuck the world, get a child out her
Yeah my life a bitch, but you know nothin’ bout her,
Been to Hell and back, I can show you vouchers,
I rollin’ sweets, I’m smoking sour,
Married to the game, but she broke her vows,
That’s why my bars are full of broken bottles
And my night stands are full of open Bibles
I think about more than I forget,
But I don’t go around fire expecting not to sweat
And these niggers know I lay them down, make your bed
Bitches try to kick me while I’m down, I break your leg
Money outweighing problems on the triple beam
I’m sticking to the script, you niggers skipping scenes
Uh, be good or be good at it
Fucking right I got my gun, semi Carter-matic
Did I say “WOW”? Em’s verse picks up too and I love him, but I think it’s time Em stops singing his hooks. I heard enough of it with Encore and 50 kind of ruined it for everyone with every song he’s put out since In Da Club.
Slash (feat. Fergie): Beautiful Dangerous
I know that this may lower my street cred, but I can’t stop listening to this catchy damn song. By the way, this would have been a monster hit in 1991 and Fergie missed her calling — she should have been the lead singer of an 80’s hair band.
Jay-Z (feat. Lenny Kravitz): Guns & Roses
“But even a broken clock is right at least two times a day”
2Pac & Rappin’ 4-Tay: Only God Can Judge Me
I hear the doctor standing over me, screaming I can make it/
Got a body full of bullet holes, laying here naked/
Still I can’t breathe, something’s evil in my IV/
Cause everytime I breathe, I think they killin’ me/
I’m having nightmares, homicidal fantasies/
I wake up strangling, dangled in my bed sheets/
I call the nurse cause it hurts to reminisce/
How did it come to this? I wish they didn’t miss/
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here/
Cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
(I’ve been posting a lot of 2Pac lately, and I actually do have other music in my iPod, but who would complain that there is too much 2Pac? Exactly…nobody.)
Okay, I mentioned in my last post about You Rock My World that it was hilarious hearing Michael Jackson say “She is bangin’; she looks good!” about a girl. Well, here’s the link to the You Rock My World video. Unfortunately, embedding is disabled, but that’s fine because you’ll likely want to bookmark this 12-minute-long video (!) that features Michael Jackson and Chris Tucker, as well as Michael Madsen and MARLON BRANDO.
Like I said in my last post, You Rock My World is a very good, often underrated MJ song. However, I cannot defend this video. I can say without any hesitation that you must see it once in your life, though.
Am I the only person who thinks that Michael Jackson’s last actual studio album, Invincible, is drastically underrated? I mean, nothing can measure up to Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad, and Dangerous, but not very many albums by any artists can measure up to four ridiculously great albums like those. To me, however, a good album has at least three very good songs on it. If I buy an album and it has three very good songs, I’m satisfied with my purchase.
I bought Invincible when it came out in 2001 and enjoyed it and I had a few of the songs on my iPod, but I didn’t get into listening to them again until recently when I, like everyone else who grew up with MJ, got back into his music after his death. The three songs that I liked from the album can’t measure up to anything from Off The Wall or Thriller, but I’d place them right up there with some of his stuff off of Dangerous. Michael’s voice was still fantastic and Unbreakable features a verse from Notorious B.I.G. and the combination fits, although it’s kind of creepy to listen to it now knowing that neither MJ or Biggie were “unbreakable” or “invincible”.
The biggest hit from the album was You Rock My World, which didn’t reach the same heights on the charts as some of Michael’s previous hits, but it is a catchy fucking song! You can’t deny that Michael still had the ability to make great music, even when he was in the twilight of his career. The only thing that takes away from You Rock My World is the beginning of the song where Michael and Chris Tucker talk about a girl that they see. It’s funny hearing Michael say, “Chris, I can get that girl” after Tucker bets him Neverland that he can’t. But it’s unintentionally funny, and it’s unintentionally HILARIOUS to hear Michael say, “She is bangin’. She looks good.” while giggling like…well…like Michael Jackson.
I don’t think Michael Jackson needs my help to sell any records right now, but don’t overlook Invincible. If nothing else, go download Unbreakable and You Rock My World.
…I’ve come to the sad conclusion that most Nirvana doesn’t hold up. It hurts me to say that because I worshipped Kurt Cobain in middle school and was devastated when he killed himself. The “Unplugged” stuff is still great, most of “Nevermind” is good, but “In Utero” is tough to listen to. I still dig “Heart-Shaped Box”, “Rape Me” and “All Apologies”, but I used to love “Scentless Apprentice” and it’s almost unlistenable now.
I might be getting old. Sorry Kurt.
