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"Look At Me Now" And Five Other Good Rap Songs From This Week

The venerable Busta Rhymes shows us what people mean when they talk about an MC "blacking out" on a track. He rhymes so fast, enunciates so clearly, without pausing to take a breath, you'd think he'd lose consciousness. In so doing, he steals this song—with it's huge and spacious beat, which was produced by club music maestro Diplo and sounds like it will explode dance floors like the Yin Tang Twins "Wait (The Whisper Song)" did six years ago—from proprietor Chris Brown and fellow guest star Lil Wayne both.

Here are a bunch of other good rap songs that came out this week.

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Pill, "On Da Korner"

Atlanta rapper Pill, who had the Awl offices "Goin' Ham" last summer, has a new video out. It offers the same raw realness he's known for, and this time, a sample of Suzanne Vega's "Left of Center," which producer Needlz surely remembers from its inclusion in a movie with one of the greatest soundtracks of all-time, John Hughes' Pretty In Pink.