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...silky smooth, and when he matter-of-factly proclaims on the chorus, “And everywhere I go, I kick a freestyle / And every time I move, these women freestyle,” it takes you back—in a good way—to the rapper??s heyday in the late ’90s. The album’s successes and pitfalls aren’t all predicated on their moment in time, however. Redman shines when he reunites with his old crew, as he does on the Def Squad-featured...
...flows, his body of work from “Back for the First Time” to “The Red Light District”—not counting “Splash Waterfalls”—ruled airwaves and booties more than any rapper??s catalog in this decade. But with “Release Therapy,” his fifth album in six years, this dominance, like all good things, has come to an end. While the openers on his last two albums were effective party-starters, the half-skit, half...
...equal parts love song and stinging indictment of the film industry.Over a glacial instrumental track, Lil’ Wayne spits venom at Hollywood for coming “through my neighborhood with cameras on,” but not being there for tragedies like Hurricane Katrina, which claimed the rapper??s Louisiana home, leaving him nothing but “a darn country song” in return.Then, Andre 3000 outlines the pattern of Hollywood’s betrayals, detailing how “all the fresh styles always start off as a fresh little hood thing...
...name to a long list of “samplers” in rap history. From its roots in Jamaican reggae and dub, hip-hop has always relied on the creative reuse of prerecorded material. Starting from simple looped beats of disco and funk tracks (think “Rapper??s Delight” and their shameless use of Chic’s “Good Times”), sampling quickly evolved into montage masterworks by artists like EPMD, the Beastie Boys, and De La Soul.But, not surprisingly in our über-litigious country, the golden...
Pussycat Dolls “Beep” Dir. Benny Boom The Pussycat Dolls’ M.O. for “Beep” is similar to that for their debut single “Don’t Cha”; a rapper??then Busta Rhymes, now Will.I.Am—acting as a sidekick to the lead (read: only) singer Nicole, while the other five Dolls decorate the space behind her with booty-shaking, body rolls, and yet more booty-shaking. The video gradually works its way towards the hot dance scenes, first showing the five...