Here's a cool thing for revolutionary minded rappers to do: take the beat to a club hit that celebrates not much more than material success and excess and the easy sex it can provide (which, you know, that's okay—there's room for everything in this great big world) and turn it into an instructional recommended reading list for overthrowing the capitalist power system.

Here's the original version, Lloyd Banks and Juelz Santana's "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 [...]