213. Cassie – Addiction
Posted: August 1, 2013 Filed under: #hotfor2013, hip hop, RnB | Tags: 2006, a song a day, addiction, cassie, french montana, meek mill, model, pusha t, rick ross, rnb, rockabyebaby, ryan leslie Leave a comment
When she’s not busy being a model, Cassie is actually quite the RnB artist. Modelled very much in the mould of Aaliyah by producer Ryan Leslie, she followed up her debut album from 2006 this year with a mixtape entitled “RockaByeBaby”, featuring the likes of Rick Ross, Meek Mill and Pusha T.
“Addiction” features French Montana, spitting trademark languid flows over a cacophony of hats and bells. The track has a real feel of 2005 flava in it without feeling tired – it’s almost nice to hear something in this vein sitting in the modern era.
Cassie-ette
91. Kanye West feat Pusha T – Runaway
Posted: April 1, 2013 Filed under: hip hop | Tags: a song a day, hip hop, Kanye west, my beautiful dark twisted fantasy, power, pusha t, rap, runaway Leave a comment
From Mr West’s latest solo album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”, “Runaway” is a wild, lilting and epic number, sprawling over 9 minutes in all kinds of forms. The initial piano stabs break into a beautifully filling breakbeat/bass combo and as Kanye raps:
Let’s have a toast for the douchebags,
Let’s have a toast for the assholes
You get a sense that its another track lambasting his successes and failures, swapping boisterousness with introversion on a sentence by sentence basis. This kind of internal battle has marked Kanye’s entire career and you get the sense that he could turn round one day and it all be a massive troll…or he in fact is, this crazy. My experience is anyone with this much talent, usually is.
It’s written on his face
46. Kanye West feat Pusha T – New God Flow
Posted: February 15, 2013 Filed under: hip hop | Tags: 2013, a song a day, clique, common, good music, hammersmith apollo, Kanye west, kim kardashian, live, mercy, new god flow, pusha t Leave a comment
In honour of Kanye’s abruptly announced shows next weekend at the Hammersmith Apollo, here’s my favourite track from the Cruel Summer G.O.O.D Music album. Show me a better opening line than “I believe there’s a God above me, I’m just the God of everything else” #ego
A Song A Day 2013 