Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta

...I picked up trawling my RSS feed:




Raw and aggressive, with a great heavy metal guitar riff. If MOP were Southern & could rap fast...they wouldn't be MOP - but they would also sound a lot like this.




In stark contrast, here's the title track from my favourite emo-rapper's new album.




Dilla had a deep & meaningful relationship with his jewelry judging off this! Poppy, catchy hook, but with Primo-esque drums & bassline keeping it gutter. Dope.




Weezy, Akon, Snoop & Rick Ross need to start a feature-rapping agency, with buy 2 get 2 free offers going into the 4th-quarter-tax-write-off-album season. Can't complain if they keep the quality level this high. Raekwon features on the rmx, with a C.R.E.A.M. sample. Sweet.




Hi-tek kills the beat & the always impressive Dion is sublime on the chorus. His haunting vocals have helped define Hi-tek's sound in recent years (e.g. Running on The Documentary & a buncha tracks on Hi-teknology 2) in a similar manner to John Legend's contribution to Kanye West circa 2003/2004. Would love to see them both get that kind of recognition.