Just two reciprocating stunnas. Courtesy xclusivezone.net.
Although it may be number 65 on the Billboard Hot 100, Lil Wayne’s latest collaboration with Birdman has garnered little interest from most radio stations. And probably for good reason. In all honesty, it’s a rare miss from rap’s King Midas. The song sounds stilted and cluttered, while also lacking the driving beat that usually characterizes Wayne’s work. “Always Strapped” is probably a throw-away track on Tha Carter III, but for the increasingly irrelevant Birdman, it’s the first single off his fourth studio album, Priceless.
So while “Always Strapped’ will probably have short-lived commercial success, its’ chorus promulgates one of the most eternal truths of biological life: a system of faithful reciprocity is the best strategy for dealing with other organisms.
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Sure, they're interested. But I doubt it will last. Courtesy scoopthemagazine.com
At this point, Lil Wayne can rap about anything, and it wouldn’t surprise me. The first time I heard the exquisite “Every Girl,” I was a little shocked by how forward it was. But after a few minutes, I realized that this song is really just the natural extension of any rap single. It’s just more candid (and better produced). If it weren’t so explicit, I think Wayne’s latest could be 2009’s Song Of The Summer. It really is the best track I have heard in a while (and that’s including anything off the overrated Veckatimest).
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(Via Stereogum) The Ting Tings are so popular that mainstream artists everywhere are copying their sound. Lil Wayne, whom you may have seen recently debate Skip Bayless on ESPN, has even planned to release a new rock album called Rebirth due on April 7th. Listen to the first track, “Prom Queen,” here. Thank god The Ting Tings don’t use autotune. Check out their new video for “That’s Not My Name” below.
See them perform at the Cat’s Cradle on March 21st along with A.C. Newman (of The New Pornographers) and Cut Copy that same week.
The Fader has just posted part one of its year-end “Listmania 2008,” which offers something a little bit more unconvential than most year-in-review lists. Some of the best rankings include:
Top Five Band Names That Consist Primarily of Gender References
5. Man Man
4. She and Him
3. Me and Women
2. Women
1. Girls
There are also three different lists pertaining exclusively to Lil Wayne. Among them:
Top Ten Things Lil Wayne Doesn’t Do, According to Lil Wayne On Tha Carter III
10. Owe you, like two vowels
9. Rap, he films movies
8. Fantasize
7. Have to get his tooth fixed
6. Write sh-t, cuz he ain’t got time
5. Have the answer
4. Wanna finish
3. Know what you are on
2. Give a f-ck if you see him
1. Care
They also remind us of Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig’s college blog and their favorite tertiary characters from The Wire. For the rest of the post, check here.
UPDATE: Check out part two here.
Justin Vernon. Courtesy rcrdlbl.
A whole 17 days before the year ends, we did it. We summarized the best our favorite music of 2008 on our humble blog, and its name was Justin Vernon. The Jagjaguwar re-release of Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, our favorite album of the year, made it into six of our nine lists, all in the top five (that was a lot of single-digit numbers, more coming). The lists had three mentions of “re:stacks,” two of “Skinny Love” and one of “Lump Sum.” Some other numbers after the jump.
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