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I’m throwing a lot of videos at you today.  DMX, the crazy crackhead rapper, busted into our lives in 1998 with the It’s Dark, and Hell is Hot album with featured the Ruff Ryders Anthem and  How’s it Going Down. The latter is a song about him getting with a girl who already has a man, using said girl to deliver drugs, and then moving on when he knows the situation with the girl won’t work out.  He uses much stronger language to tell this story, but the message is basically the same.  DMX’s first album has sold over 5 million copies worldwide.  Impressive.

DMX released a second album in 1998, this one entitled Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of my Blood. And as everyone knows, this album contained the hit song Slippin. This is a great song.  Oddly enough though, I prefer the edited version to the explicit version.  There’s just something about the cursing that doesn’t flow well with the song.  Wikipedia fact: Slippin remained censored on the uncensored version of the album.  DMX’s second album on 1998 also reached #1 on Billboard and has gone 3 times platinum.

Of course Slippin samples a jazz/funk beat.  Grover Washington Jr. won the title for Sexiest Album Cover in 1975 for his Feels So Good album.  Check out that mat of chest hair.  Moonstreams from that album was used for the Slippin beat, you can hear it start around 20 seconds in.  Moonstreams is a decent song.  Very slow.  Mellow.  Chill.  This song was also sampled by a female in the Motown era, but I can’t find what song it is.  And now that is bugging me.

Today you’re also getting Taana Gardner’s Heartbeat. Why? DMX sampled it on It’s All Good, great song.  “It’s all good, it’s alright.  F$%# all day, F$%# all night.”  What a lyricist.  Anyway, this Taana Gardner track has been sampled by everybody.  Can you guess what other one-hit wonder pop/rap reggae song used this beat?  Ini Kamoze’s Hotstepper!

Mac Miller is white guy.  His voice sounds weird like he may have a speech impediment.  However, his songs are pretty mellow and chill.  Off his latest mix tape, here is Frozen Pizza and Kool-Aid.

Hopefully the following video still works.  It’s the lead single off the next Kid Cudi album Erase Me. Is this song on the radio yet?  I have no idea.  I’ll post it anyways.

Alright, it seems like this website is turning into a music blog.  So here’s some more songs that you need to know about.

Leading us off is Duece Poppi’s White Friends.  We all have white friends and we love them, so this is a song dedicated to your white friends.  Catchy….not too annoying.  In case the video gets pulled, here’s the link to the official music video, which you should probably watch anyways.  Don’t forget the remix, Fat Friends.

The next song comes from The Pack and is a classy joint called Titties.  I guess this would be considered a club banger.  I would classify as annoying.

Our third song comes from Jae Millz, who Bill Simmons says is the only person reviving gangster rap.  You Can’t Teach Me How to Dougie (remix of Teach You How to Dougie) seems to be a song revolting against the “dougie” revolution.  I don’t dougie.  You shouldn’t dougie.  I don’t wear skinny jeans.  You shouldn’t wear skinny jeans if you’re a guy.  “I’m from Harlem, bet your girl and side bitch love me”

Our last song from this weekend will be a remix of Travis McCoy’s Billionaire. The Party Rock Remix features LMFAO and Gucci Mane.  I like the remix because of the beat, but mostly because of the 2nd verse.  Verse two gives us three great lines:

1) She blow like a woodwind, didgeridoo

2) Now I got her head mmmbop’ing like Hansen.

3) I’ll buy all the fatty fats P90X

KAPOW!

Wale – Eye of the Tiger.  No this song isn’t a remake of Eye of the Tiger, it’s a song about Tiger Woods and his ‘transgressions’.  It’s a pretty damn good song too, even includes snipets of the phone call message and press conference, there’s even some George Costanza.

While going to YouTube to find this video, the below video was recommended for me. Go Colts!

Welcome to another Throwback Thursday.  Today we’re taking a trip to the south with an old Outkast jam.  Outkast has a ton of great songs to choose from, but I’m trying to keep these songs pre-2000, so  went with ATLiens. According to Wikipedia, Outkast’s musical style is a “mixture of Dirty South and G-Funk.” I love G-Funk. Every Warren G album is amazing in my world. I also include Skee-Lo’s I Wish album into the G-Funk genre, also a very good album. Outkast is the most successful hip-hop groups of all time, having received six Grammy Awards and sold over 25 million copies of their eight releases.  ATLiens comes to us from the groups 1996 album entitled ATLiens.

And my favorite ATLiens remix comes to us from Tor / Sufjan Stevens’ Illinoize Remix Tape.  It’s hard to imagine somebody making a more mellow and chill version of this song, but they managed to do it.

BAM!

Eminem became a hip hop and pop icon in 1999 with the release of My Name Is…  and has had some  amazing accomplishments since then.

Eminem was ranked 82nd on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time. He was also named the Best Rapper Ever by Vibe magazine in 2008. Including his work with D12, Eminem has achieved nine No. 1 albums on the Billboard Top 200, 7 solo (6 studio albums, 1 compilation) and 2 with D12. Eminem has had 13 number one singles worldwide. In December 2009 Eminem was named the Artist of the Decade by Billboard magazine. His albums The Eminem Show, The Marshall Mathers LP, and Encore (in order) ranked as the 3rd, 7th, and 40th best-selling albums of the 2000-2009 decade by Billboard magazine. According to Billboard, Eminem has two of his albums among the top five highest selling albums of the 2000s.

We’ll get this show started with the song that started it all, My Name Is…

Let’s transition to the 1970’s and to the song that was sampled to produce My Name Is…  Labi Siffre, a British poet, songwriter and musician released a song entitled I Got The.  At 2:10 comes the Eminem sample, but there’s no need to skip ahead to that point.  The whole song is amazing.  The first 2 minutes are completely different from the middle 2 minutes which differ still from the last 2 minutes (the song is over 6 minutes long for you non-math majors).  Start including this song in your playlists, you won’t be disappointed.

We’ll bring it full circle now and play a song of Eminem’s latest album, Recovery.  This tracks is entitled 25 to Life. It’s a song about spending his life in the music industry and what he has sacrificed and gone through (I think… it could also be about a prison sentence).  I would consider it to be emo rap, so enjoy if you want.

A Carrie Underwood song has never sounded this good before.

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You can take this with a grain of salt: Ms. Fat Booty is Mos Def’s greatest song.  I can only name one or two other Mos Def tracks, so obviously I’m not too educated in his work.  But Ms. Fat Booty is wonderful.  A story of a young woman that rejects Mos, only to show interest in him when she finds out he’s a famous rapper, to begin relations, to not returning his calls or pages, until Mos finds out that she’s a stripper.  A story that every young male can relate to.  The first video you get is Ms Fat Booty.  Your 2nd video today is One Step by Aretha Franklin. A song about how Aretha is so close to a man, a man that’s causing an internal struggle about whether or not she should be with him.  A story that every young lady can relate to.  The other reason for including Aretha is that the chorus from Ms. Fat Booty was taken from this song, it’s also just an awesome song.

“I know.  I can’t afford to stop.  For a moment.  That it’s too soon.  To forget.

I really need to thank the amazing employees at RickRickert.com for uncovering the following videos.  I didn’t ask any questions on how or why he found these videos, just glad that they were found.

Great quote from video 2: “She tries out her interrogation techniques on American import Rick Rickert……that’s his real name.”

I think we have a lot of Notorious BIG fans that visit this site, probably 5 total each day, so today we will please those fans today.  This song is not one of the regulars for those fair weather fans.  It’s not Juicy, Big Poppa, Hypnotize, One More Chance, or I’m Fucking You Tonight. Off his Life After Death album (always forget that BIG only produced 2 studio albums while alive) comes Sky’s The Limit. It samples Bobby Caldwell’s My Flame which is included below (I’ve been listening to a lot more old school funk songs that can be found in hip-hop).  It’s just an awesome smooth mellow beat.  The Notorious video is a great concept with children acting out the roles of BIG, Puffy and others.  Hell, even the lyrics are really decent, talking about the young black male growing up poor, trying to fit in and be cool, selling drugs, guns, sex, bitches and hoes…..all the necessary topics of a good rap song.  The song peaked in the 20’s on the Hot 100 back in 1998.

Try it at a bar.

**Sorry readers, my computer at home is jacked and I’ve been busy at work, so this post quality is at a check-minus.

Today you will be presented with an both the original and remixed versions of Luniz’s I Got 5 On It.  I’m not really sure which one I like best, both are very entertaining.  But if I had to choose, the remix (2nd video) would get my vote simply because there are a number of old school Starter jackets in it.  Anyway, it’s a great song about weed and hoes.  One of the singers has the unique ability to “roll a joint that’s longer than your extentions” so that’s beneficial to him and his homies.  He also enjoys drinking a 40 along with smoking weed because “the weed in my system is getting lonely”