Posts tagged as juelz santana
Lloyd Banks and Juelz Santana, "Beamer, Benz Or Bentley"
Are we witnessing the commercial comeback for New-York-rap-besides-Jay-Z that everybody's been waiting for? Probably not. While you hear hear Lloyd Banks and Juelz Santana's"Beamer, Benz Or Bentley," on the city streets these days, the song hasn't yet cracked Billboard's national charts. I think it's just okay. A catchy-if-formulaic beat built off the kind of simple, ascending and descending keyboard line that worked for Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" two years ago, and Mims' "This Is Why I'm Hot" the year before that, and playboy rhymes about money, cars and women. Much less exciting, in my opinion, than the grittier sounds issued by Banks' G-Unit colleague Tony Yayo, or Staten Island's resurgent Wu-Tang Clan. The best thing about the video, I think, is Juelz' eye-wear. Wu-Tang's Raekwon was caught on camera in something similar lately, too. So at the very least, we might be witnessing the comeback of one of the greatest and most ridiculous '80s hip-hip fashion innovations: urban ski goggles.
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New Bob Dylan-Sampling Rap: Juelz Santana, "Mixing Up The Medicine"
Harlem rapper Juelz Santana has a new song out that samples Bob Dylan's 1965 classic "Subterranean Homesick Blues." Produced by Kane Beatz, and featuring Alabama rapper Yelawolf (who looks a bit like Keith Richards, doesn't he?) voicing Dylan's lyrics on the hook, the song is pretty good. But it's frustrating, too. First of all, it's a shame they couldn't have used Dylan's own voice. Maybe they couldn't get permission, or they couldn't afford the clearance fees? Strange, if so, because the signature guitar lick prominent in the production does sound to be from the original recording. This is sad in the same way as the Wu-Tang Clan's "The Heart Gently Weeps," which recasts the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Dhani Harrison playing his dad's chords and Erykah Badu changing the words of the chorus-again, rather than a sample from the original: Not terrible. Kinda cool in itself. But, man, what might have been. READ MORE
