Lloyd Banks and Juelz Santana, "Beamer, Benz Or Bentley" @10:50 AM
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. READ MORE 14
New Bob Dylan-Sampling Rap: Juelz Santana, "Mixing Up The Medicine" @1:10 PM
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. READ MORE 4











