All is good. All is funky.
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Sticks
How can you argue with this? How can you argue with a man as rotund as this who calls himself 'Cannonball'? How can you argue with one of the swaggest jazz albums ever?
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
Just as Eminem
proclaims a return to straight hip hop, John starts pumping the Heroes in the kitchen. Why not make it funky and political like this folks? Maybe it's because:
It's tough to make a living when you're an artist
It's even tougher when you're socially conscious
Careerism, opportunism
Can turn the politics into cartoonism
Outkast ft. George Clinton - Synthesizer
Listening to Aquemini I just want to put every track on a list, but something about Synthesizer makes it one of the most special and ungraspable tracks in Outkast's catalogue. Apart from the obligatory killer Andre-verse (the way he flows in and out of staccato rhymes in that midpart gets me every time), it's also got the emperor of funk, and a dreamy fingersnapping outro that seems to gel from nowhere.
Said she'd tapdance on your laptop
while your laptop's in your lap
Earl Sweatshirt - Hive
Finally an Odd Future release that I have no qualms about at all. Partly because I can't even decipher the potentially disgusting things he says. Why do I find it so enjoyable to listen to words so complex I don't even understand them? Partly I guess it's that jawdropping
"woah"-feeling. Partly it is because it
does give musical and sonical pleasure. It's onomatopoetics made even more exciting by the fact that it's built out of actual words. Language as a pure material; in visual arts as in music. And here's a new master of it.
From that city that's recession-hit
With stress, niggas could flex metal with peddle to rake pennies in
Desolate testaments trying to stay Jekyll-ish
But most niggas Hyde and Brenda just stay pregnant
Breaking news: death's less important when the Lakers lose
It's lead in that baby food, heads try to make it through
Fish-netted legs for them eyes that she cater to
Ride dirty as the fucking sky that you praying to
Fever Ray - Coconut (live)
The most threatening song about laying back with a big cigar ever.
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