Posts tagged as fabolous
Fabolous, "I'm Raw"
Here's the video for "I'm Raw," a good new song from Brooklyn rapper Fabolous. I love the parts where he's working at the butcher shop-some really nice food photography there, and it's also refreshing any time a rapper is depicted as having a regular old job. My first couple times watching, I liked the horror-movie stuff much less-in the meat locker, with the chainsaw and the blood, and that "scary" sickly lighting. The player with the babe in the swank hotel, too. All of this we've seen before, lots of times. But I've come around to it. I kind of like the idea that the dude chopping meat at the local butcher's shop might be fantasizing that he's going all Saw VII on his rap rivals while he's, I don't know, de-tipping a pound-and-a-half of chicken wings. And then he gets to get the babe in the swank hotel. Sure, why not? READ MORE
Radio Station Annoys Man Sitting In Car
I sat in a parked car for an hour this morning, waiting out the no-parking-for-street-cleaning window, listening to Hot 97. I know they're basically a top-40 station, dedicated to whatever's currently most popular in "blazing hip-hop and R&B." But, God, I wish they'd expand their playlist. It really seems like they keep to a rotation of the same five or six songs at any given time. (Maybe they're a top-5 station?) Today, for example, they played Fabolous' "Throw It In The Bag" remix, featuring Drake, around 8:45, and then again at exactly 9:24. Twice in forty minutes! That's ridiculous. (The most recent playlist at Hot97.com has "Throw It In The Bag" ranked 5th. Trey Songz' "I invented Sex," also featuring Drake, is no. 1. So they're playing that one every, what 12 minutes? We're going to run into mathematical impossibility here...) But I don't even mind "Throw It In The Bag" so much. Much worse is the new Young Money song that's also playing with great frequency (ranked 9th on the playlist.) Have you heard it? It's called "Bedrock" and it absolutely plagued my drive back home from Boston after Thanksgiving. (So Hot 97's counterparts in Massachusetts and Connecticut must share some blame.) Young Money is Lil Wayne's group, featuring, yes, Drake, but also Mack Maine, Gutta Gutta, Nicki Minaj and, usually, way too much autotune. But the real problem with "Bedrock" is the chorus. READ MORE
