Posts tagged as album titles
Vado And Young Dro, "Polo"
I've been paying attention to the Harlem rapper Vado lately. He's a protege of Dipset's gifted and flamboyant and ridiculous Cam'ron, and he's delivered some good verses this year. His name is also very close to that of the Cincinnati Reds' first baseman Joey Votto, who will likely win the National League's MVP award. So I often find myself saying his name in my head the way he does-"Vaahdo"-when I'm watching baseball. This is a new song from his debut album, which comes out in two weeks. It features the Atlanta rapper Young Dro, who could have made an appearance in Lisa Birnbach's new book. Dro's upcoming album is called P.O.L.O.: Players Only Live Once. Pretty cool. But not nearly as cool as the name of Vado's album, Slime Flu. READ MORE
Warren G Takes Credit For Something Not Worth Taking Credit For
This seems to not quite qualify as a great stroke of genius. Producer and former rapper Warren G tells XXL that he came up with the name for his step-brother Dr. Dre's classic 1999 album Chronic 2001-which was a follow-up to Dre's 1992 debut, The Chronic. "We actually met at the Beverly Hills Hotel one night, and-I swear to God-he was trying to figure out what to call the album, and I actually said, 'How about Chronic 2001?' Right there at the Beverly Hills Hotel-we sat there, in the bungalows, and named it The Chronic 2001... Dre probably don't remember that shit, but I said, 'Chronic 2001... We are The Chronic. Why change it and name it something else when you can name it Chronic 2001? Because it's the second one, and it's in the new millennium. Let's start it up and hit them again with it!'" Okay. In the '90s, there were so many rap albums coming out with future-year-based titles that hip-hop magazines were doing stories about the phenomenon. How about a quick list? READ MORE
