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Re-Upping For 2008

Posted 12/21/2007 at 3:25 PM  |  Comment?

Liva & Sandman: "Where The Cash At?"

Liva & Sandman: "Dope Dealers (Go Gettas)"

We Got It 4 Cheap Vol. 3 can't come soon enough. No fake R. Kelly singing though, OK? Thanks, fellas.

See y'all in 2008, when the blogging will be more regular and hopefully the raps a lot better.

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Janet Jackson: Back and Colder Than Ever

Posted 12/12/2007 at 5:32 PM  |  Comment?

Janet Jackson: "Feedback"
from her untitled forthcoming album

Pure pop. Pure Britney. Pure dance. Puerile? Not quite. The texture of Janet Jackson's now-leaking new single "Feedback" is smooth, cold, flat, precise, like an impossible-to-crack safe filled to the brim with diamonds and pearls. And the singing patterns and inflections sound Rihanna-inspired, probably a wise move for a popular singer never celebrated for her, um, singing. At worst, this is an attention-getter and that's a good thing as Janet's coming off her worst-selling album. At best, it's yet another in a long line of Robo-soul that's blown this year. Long live pitch correct.

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The-Dream: Best That Ever Did It?

Posted 12/10/2007 at 3:40 PM  |  Comment?

The-Dream: "She Needs My Love"
from Love Hate (Def Jam)

If every album I reviewed were The-Dream's Love Hate, my job would awesome. Check that, if every abum ever were Love Hate, that would be awesome.

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Ghostface Killah: Still Rapping

Posted 12/04/2007 at 8:35 PM  |  Comment?

Ghostface Killah: "Supa GFK"
from The Big Doe Rehab

Ghostface Killah: "The Champ" (Original Version)
from the Fishscale sessions

Cormega feat. Ghostface Killah: "Tony/Montana"
from Legal Hustle

Cassius feat. Ghostface Killah: "Thrilla"
from Au Reve

A less than breathless reading of The Big Doe Rehab over here. Above, the entrancing "Supa GFK" and some favorite Starks odds and ends.

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R.I.P. Pimp C

Posted 12/04/2007 at 8:23 PM  |  Comment?

UGK: "Tell Me Something Good"
from The Southern Way

UGK: "Return"
from Super Tight

Absolutely devastating.

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Rick Ross: '80s Baby

Posted 12/03/2007 at 5:38 PM  |  Comment?

Rick Ross feat. Lil Jon: "Drought" (Produced by Mannie Fresh)
from the forthcoming Trilla (Def Jam)

And so now Tears For Fears is ripe for pillaging. Rick Ross, who has been magically unexcoriated for being a middling-at-best rapper in his short history, has teamed with Mannie Fresh, oddly absent since he signed with Def Jam South, for "Drought," which samples TFF's 1985 hit "Shout." No words.

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