Singles

Jay Electronica - Exhibit C

Submitted by Rizoh on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 22:57

Jay Electronica - Exhibit CIf you’re wondering why we haven’t heard much from Just Blaze lately, it’s partly because Jay Electronica kidnapped him and locked him up in the studio to work on his debut album. If “Exhibit C” is any indication of what’s to come, Jay should go ahead and put a bigger lock on Fort Knox Studios. I don’t know how much of this will translate onto his full-length, but Jay is on a tear right now.

Clipse - I'm Good

Submitted by Renato on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 19:08

Your enjoyment of "I'm Good" depends on a few things: your fondness for Neptunes beats that sound like a cross between the T.I. and Common collaboration "Good Life" and a bunch of the beats that Chad and Pharrell did for Slim Thug a few years ago, your tolerance of sung Pharrell hooks and Clipse songs that hew closer to the aesthetic of Lord Willin' than Hell Hath No Fury. Because I'm a sucker for all three things, I enjoy "I'm Good." I just think it works a lot better as a deep album cut than the first official single (was "Kinda Like a Big Deal" kinda just the street single?) from the forthcomingTill the Casket Drops, which is slated for a tentative September release. As always, Malice and Pusha T sound like gold over a Neptunes beat, even if it's one of their tracks that straddles the line between their glittery synthetic schmaltz and their springy, spacey funk that they rarely do these days.

Starkey - Gutter Music

Submitted by Renato on Sun, 07/05/2009 - 19:03

Starkey - Ephemeral ExhibitsIf this was 2003, this would be your favourite blogger's favourite song. Unfortunately, bloggers and critics deserted grime for dubstep, which features actual rapping a lot less, mostly because it's pretty damn hard to rap over the kind of off-kilter rhythms that separate dub from garage and grime. If anyone is going to be up to the task, it's a British emcee like Durrty Goodz, who sounds completely at home over the bubbling synthesizers and hyperkinetic dancehall lasers that ricochet and refract off all the shiny surfaces of Starkey's "Gutter Music."

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