Holler at this sh*t right here. You're going to need a favorite uk emcee, might as well start looking around.

Oh man, this is my type of sh*t right here. When given the option I usually end up throwing something like this on and reveling in the orgasmic feeling of staying on the line between smiling and weeping. You should try it, it's fun AND depressing. I couldn't decide if I liked this live version better, but I might. If you watch it, pay attention to that mic combination they got going on. I don't know the mics or anything but you can tell by the shapes that whoever set it up knows what's up. This song was also in that nigerian movie I saw, which was both kind of surprising and also a reminder that I didn't know sh*t about the state of nigerian film.

*edit from 2025 - that live version is fucking amazing. i definitely prefer it.

I like this interview for it's historical significance, for what I imagine will ultimately become it's archaelogical importance. This is the day rappers, me included, finally stood up to tyrannical radio dj's. The day we finally started the climb to overthrow the oppression of their f**king played out instrumental choices. The instrumentals these motherf**kers throw on during freestyle segments are the same instrumentals you would have heard ten years ago. Quite often it's the same instrumentals you would have heard almost twenty years ago. The crazy part of it is that you'll never convince them that that sh*t is crazy.

I'm going to officially start checking for stizz regularly, this motherf**ker is nice. I'm also looking forward to getting a new perspective on boston. If you're from around here (montreal) you know what the average boston dude interaction is like. If you're not from around here, allow me to explain that sh*t. Out here the drinking age is eighteen, so every weekend certain parts our city are swarmed with obnoxiously wasted bostonian white guys with polo shirts and military-style haircuts failing to pick up women and deciding that fighting in the streets is almost as good. It's not homie, it's not! In fact, now that I think about it, and also for the sake of narrative closure, I've seen quite a few of them get their bells rung.

I watched this nigerian movie that reminded me about this sh*t. Man I love this song. Listen to the swag on the way they hit the "down low". A friend of mine who used to play guitar with "cannonhead" put me on to this during a tour many moons ago. And since it had already been like 30 years in between it's release and when I first heard it, it unsurprisingly still holds the f**k up.

Saw everybody going crazy about this dude awhile back when he performed with chance the rapper on some late night show. He's rapping like a motherf**ker on this right here. Though it took two listens before I was with the hook, that second verse is some sh*t. Seems he also co-produced it, which is the fastest way for a rapper to get my respect.

Man 1996 was a f**king great year for rap music. I could go on forever about the classic albums released that year but I'm not going to. Not right now at least. Con's got a pretty good story here about bone thugs vs wu-tang, which is beautiful. I don't know who I'd bet on if that was a vegas card. What would the matchups even be? wish vs ghost? layzie vs inspectah deck? bizzy vs killaramy? Where would your loyalties lie? I got cleveland on this one, partially because kyrie irving is the sh*t.

Hahahahahaha. Look at these motherf**ker's try to explain snapchat and khaled to your grandparents. I can't believe that khaled actually thinks that half of his snapchat followers are "old fans". Come on now, until snapchat, khaled was khaled's only fan. I know that, you know that, I feel like he must know that too. If my kid's school was having khaled in to talk to the children, I'd get my kid transfered. Khaled says everything as if he's asking you for confirmation. I will not confirm khaled. There was a moment not too long ago where people were questioning how self aware khaled is. Does it matter? Truthfully I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that this whole time khaled has been suffering from post-concussive symptoms.

What would it sound like if ty dolla $ign got on some weird sh*t? Well here you go you curious lil' motherf**ker you, I could have told you that it would sound dope. Hearing it is probably better though.

Buffalo represent. From everything I've seen buffalo seems to be a pretty bleak place, westside gunn is definitely not going to change any minds about that. His bio says that he's more designer than rapper but he sounds like a rapper to me. You guys remember when new york was the cultural hub of the world? When everyone was a lot meaner but also a little more honest because motherf**ker's were checking you and you had to stand by what you said? This sh*t reminds me of all that. I love this post-ghostface style of new york rap where you chop a sample and then don't do sh*t to it and throw some raps on top. If you also dig that, this is for you.

As far as first looks go, allan kingdom had a pretty f**king good one when he made an appearance with kanye doing that first glimpse of "all day" that had everybody geeked. I like him because he's from minnesota, which for all intents and purposes is basically canada. It's cold. The people have funny accents. Black people play hockey. All of that sh*t.

Maaaan, tweet and missy huh. Fit like a glove you know what i mean? At 2:47 the track switches up and turns f**king beautiful. Also If you need reminding of the classic songs they've done together, here's one of them.

Look at that. 2 chainz is sounding like vintage 2 chainz. At the very least, weezy's voice is sounding like vintage drugged out weezy.  And doesn't everything sound better backed by the roots?

I just realized that when I was talking about wavy rappers before, I had f**ked up and forgot about french. I think I've held resentment towards french because I used to do the same "unh" adlib way before him. Which is pretty ridiculous because we both stole it from missy anyway. As you can see there with the loopy cover, french just dropped a mixtape, and french tapes are always good for 3-4 f**king jams. Here's two. Here's Three. As usual he works best in a collaborative affair, which isn't an insult because a lot of the time he ends up the best part. To me french is secretly the king of new york. Well maybe more like the mayor of new york. I mean he even has diddy sounding dope! that hook part "on old man wildin" is the best diddy has ever sounded. Ever.

Yoooooo, this is wild as all hell. It took me a second to catch it at first but I'm f**king with this sh*t heavy. He's from danny brown's crew "the bruiser brigade" so that pretty much explains all that. This is definitely the next level though.