i don't know why but i've had the song "who we be" playing in my head for the past couple of days. i swore i would find out who it's from as it's catchy as hell (must've heard it on a show this weekend).
well... the search is over, boys. dmx is the one. and anyone who follows this pitiful little blog o' mine knows that i just got three of his albums this weekend. hurrah for me.
it's on the great depression.
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i cannot get over how good jay-z's vol.3... life and times of s. carter is. damn!
at the time i only got it because i wanted to get some jay-z cd's and coming across 'em in used record stores was a rare treat (i had to buy the two blueprint albums at normal music stores). i never thought i'd fall for this one, though. i was definitely only getting it because timbaland did a song for it, and, to a lesser extent, it was jay-z.
it's so good it feels like it came from another time, a place where albums were not 75% filler and posturing. of course there's some posturing here but it doesn't come off as boasting as much as jay telling his truth. i dunno. maybe that's just jay-z's way (i'm just a jay-z neophyte right now). it's laidback, "s. carter" has got to be the coolest hip-hop song to use a "child". damn, it's not a child at all, but amil, a female rapper. so, is she supposed to play a child in the song? i saw it as jay-z talking to his kid. okay, okay. now that i know it's a girl i guess i can hear it. but since the song's called "s. carter" i've always thought his son was also named sean carter, see.
anyway, no one's ever done it as clever or fun as this one.
this came out in '99! i'm damned impressed.
i've been playing it for a day or two now.
haven't listened to anything else.
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