Question: Everyone knows that every rapper and their momma hopped on the Obama bandwagon come election time, but do you know the very first artist to lend bars in support of our current president?
Hint ... it's not will.i.am or Jigga or Crooked I or Ludacris or anyone who put out a mixtape tribute to the man recently. What if I told you it was all the way back in 2004?
"Why is Bush actin' like he tryinna get Osama?
Why don't we impeach him and elect Obama?"
That couplet is from Jadakiss' remix to his (only?) smash single "Why". And they come from Common. This was Com just months after Kanye single-handedly resuscitated his public perception with a feature on The College Dropout while Be was still just "under construction". How many people actually followed politics close enough in 2004 to know who the newly-nominated United States senator from Illinois was? Certainly not me. Barack didn't gain national steam until well into 2007. I just wanted to let you know who started the movement in case ya didn't already know. Hidden sneakily in between references to his ex-boo Erykah Badu, religious ponderings, and Britney Spears dissing while also in the mix of Jada, Styles P, Nas and Anthony Hamilton, it could have slipped by anybody.
Jadakiss - Why (Remix feat. Styles P, Common, Nas, & Anthony Hamilton)
... but do take my word for it.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Snippet #2: Obamamania?
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Slaughtered
Just got through listening to the entire new Slaughterhouse tape and I gotta say ... I am not disappointed. The stuff that I've been reading has people complaining that they didn't come crazy hardbody for 15 straight tracks but ... if they did the exact same emotion every track then they'd be complaining the tape was redundant. I pretty much feel the entire album in its whole. It's hot. Trust me.
"Rain Drops" featuring Novel is an instant classic in my book. Just saying. Again. But I don't want to post any of the actual album cuts, so I put together an impromptu EP (read: copied into a random folder) of all the Slaughterhouse jams that were released prior to the real thing in random projects or just loose non-LP singles. So here ya go! You're welcome. Unless you're an avid hip hop head already. Cuz then you'd definitely already have each of these, easily. And as a side note: how sad is it to be Nino Bless in this equation? He was literally on the very song called "Slaughterhouse", with the first incarnation of the collective group, except at that point it was just a random super-collaboration track that read as featuring Joe Budden, Nino Bless, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I, & Royce da 5'9". But then the other four went and had to build a supergroup without him? Man. That would suck. Anyone else looking out for the new Nino Bless record now? Hmm ...
Slaughterhouse -
1. Warriors
2. Slaughterhouse (feat. Nino Bless)
3. Onslaught
4. Flight Club
5. Wack MCs
6. Woodstock Hood Hop (feat. M.O.P.)
7. Money On the Floor (by Corte)
8. Move On (Slaughterhouse Remix)
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