The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:00:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Vado And Young Dro, "Polo" http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/vado-and-young-dro-polo http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/vado-and-young-dro-polo#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:00:19 +0000 Dave Bry http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/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.

All this said, if these new guys think they wear more Polo than anyone else, they're wrong. It's a well established fact, and has been since 1998, that no one but no one wears more Polo shit than Trick Daddy.

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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.

All this said, if these new guys think they wear more Polo than anyone else, they're wrong. It's a well established fact, and has been since 1998, that no one but no one wears more Polo shit than Trick Daddy.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/vado-and-young-dro-polo/feed 4 Warren G Takes Credit For Something Not Worth Taking Credit For http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/warren-g-takes-credit-for-something-not-worth-taking-credit-for http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/warren-g-takes-credit-for-something-not-worth-taking-credit-for#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:10:11 +0000 Dave Bry http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/warren-g-takes-credit-for-something-not-worth-taking-credit-for 2001This 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?

1) Rahzel, Make The Music 2000 (1999)
2) Method Man, Tical 2000: Judgment Day (1998)
3) Redman, Doc's Da Name 2000 (1998)
4) Grand Puba, 2000 (1995)
5) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, E. 1999 Eternal (1995)
6) Souls of Mischief, 93 Til Infinity (1993)

Even Melissa Etheridge, an artist some might describe as slightly less musically forward-thinking than Dr. Dre, beat Warren to his eureka moment. Her own 2001 album came out in 1992.

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]]> 2001This 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?

1) Rahzel, Make The Music 2000 (1999)
2) Method Man, Tical 2000: Judgment Day (1998)
3) Redman, Doc's Da Name 2000 (1998)
4) Grand Puba, 2000 (1995)
5) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, E. 1999 Eternal (1995)
6) Souls of Mischief, 93 Til Infinity (1993)

Even Melissa Etheridge, an artist some might describe as slightly less musically forward-thinking than Dr. Dre, beat Warren to his eureka moment. Her own 2001 album came out in 1992.

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