We're back...

Been a while since we posted anything on here, but it's time to wipe off the dust on this blog.

This would also be a good time to announce that our production group (The Underclassmen) have been officially working with a local rapper named J.O. (www.myspace.com/createfreshmusic). Watch out for his new album and mixtape with production by us coming soon.

Jay-Z feat. Rihanna & Kanye West - Run This Town (SINGLE)

New single from the Blueprint 3.
Download here. (via GWHH)

Mariah Carey - Obsessed (VIDEO)

Jay-Z vs. The Game ?

Another rap beef? I honestly wonder who actually cares about rap beefs anymore. It seems that most of the time the rap beefs these days are between mediocre rappers anyways, so most people seem to yawn. However, The Game taking shots at Hov is almost worth paying attention to. My understanding is that Jay-z took shots at The Game in a HOT 97 freestyle... but after listening to it... I can't honestly say that Jay-z directed his comments to The Game. However there is no question that this latest diss track "I'm So Wavy" is directed at Jay-z.



Say what you want about that track, but I think The Game shoulda listened to Jay-z destroying Nas on Supa Ugly, and thought twice. I especially like the line from it where Jay-z talks about sleeping w/ Nas' girl - "u was kissin my dick when u was kissin that bitch". JIGGA IS MEAN! The Game better watch out.. he's poking the bear with this whole thing.

Lock Shit Down (VIDEO)

Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 fame and Talib Kweli deliver a new song for ya. It's funny, cuz Chali 2na has such a distinct voice, but I've never seen what he looks like until now. The vid is worth watching though.

Not My Girl (SINGLE) and Something That I Like (SINGLE)

New Ryan Leslie track that's supposed to be the first single off his upcoming album Transition, due out in the fall. An up tempo, catchy song with Ryan Leslie's signature production style all over it. I new I liked the song within 3 seconds of listening to it...

Download it here.

Also, I'm late on this one, but here's a track that surfaced a little while ago by Ryan Leslie featuring Pusha T of the Clipse called Something That I Like.

Download it here.

MJ Tribute: Better On The Other Side (SINGLE + VIDEO)

This song surfaced less than 24 hours after the announcement of Michael Jackson's passing and features The Game, Nas, Chris Brown, Usher, Diddy, Boyz II Men, Polow Da Don and Mario Winans. On a first listen, this song is incredibly powerful...it'll definitely be on my playlist for the next while.

The song can be downloaded here.

RIP MJ.

Pharrell speaks about MJ

RIP Michael.

Supernova (VIDEO)

New video for the lead single off Mr Hudson's upcoming album. Pretty solid visuals for an inspired track. For those of you that don't know, Mr Hudson is a UK artist signed to Kanye's G.O.O.D. Music label. He also helped to write most of the songs for 808s and Heartbreak with Kanye.

Whatever U Want (SINGLE)

New track from Consequence feat. John Legend and Kanye West. This is the first single from Cons' upcoming albuming ConsTV, coming out in October 09. I like what I hear.

Get the song here.

Mariah Carey - Obsessed

I know I'm late on this one, but I've been bumping this one on my iPod for the last few days. Mariah Carey's new single Obsessed from the upcoming album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel coming out in August. Supposedly this is a diss track aimed at Eminem...wtf? Producer: Tricky Stewart and The-Dream.

Download here via 2dopeboyz

I'm kinda like a big deal

New vid for Kinda Like a Big Deal by the Clipse feat. Kanye West. Song produced by DJ Khalil off the upcoming album Til The Casket Drops. Vid directed by Bernard Gourley.

Busta Rhymes feat. Pharrell & Tosh - Kill Dem

Damn good song from Back on My B.S. by Busta Rhymes. Track is called Kill Dem and features Pharrell and Tosh. Produced by the Neptunes.

Audio - Video Beatmaking

This video is just too dope. This guy takes different clips of him playing the drums and piano (of which he says he has no experience) and mpc style chops the sounds (with repective video footage) to make an amazing youtube video!

Cassie - Must Be Love (Video)

New video from Cassie featuring boyfriend/boss, Diddy and her half-shaved head... Song produced by Mario Winans...what happened to that guy anyways. He kinda disappeared as an artist after his album came out in '04.

Clipse - I'm Good

Brand new Clipse for ya. Produced by the Neptunes. I've been rocking Clipse's first album Lord Willin' for the past few days...reminds me of why I love the Neptunes so much. Artwork done by KAWS.

Via Complex.com

I'm Good

Listen up

Pharrell gives his 2 cents on the truth about being a recording artist. Worth a listen.

Trey Songz - D.O.A. Kellz

Here's a Trey Songz cover of Jay-Z's new D.O.A. track. Sounds like Trey Songs is callin out R Kelly on this one... Personally I think it's stupid when new artists throw shots at legends in the game, but in this case Trey Songz insists that he is not trying start any beef with R Kelly. He says he's just criticizing Kellz for using autotune when everyone knows he can sing... which I agree with.

Snatched from Y2K

DOWNLOAD HERE

An old gem (well...sorta old)

I was listening to some music the other day and came across this song that I haven't heard in a long time. I think it's a lesser known Cam'Ron song produced by Kanye West called White Girls from the album Killa Season (2006). I really like the beat to this track...excuse the track rewinding in the middle...not sure why it does that but this is the only version I could find on YouTube.

Kid Cudi - Heaven at Nite (video)

I'm diggin the vibe of this track...really laid back and easy to listen to.

Jay-Z - Death of Autotune

Jigga brings the first official single off Blueprint 3! Produced by No I.D. and Kanye West.

DL HERE

Quite Possibly The Best Video Ever

The infamous dancing man brings the party to himself @ the Sasquatch Festival

Original Sundays #3

What's crackin' people, hope you all enjoyed the batch of samples from last week. Here is the third installment of Original Sundays, some real gems in there so make sure you download all the tracks!

Please go to the bottom of the post for the track links

George McCrae – I get lifted

Sampled by:

• Snoop Dogg – Gin & Juice
  
• Notorious B.I.G. – Respect
  

Stevie Wonder – Pastime paradise

Sampled by:

• Coolio – Gangster's Paradise
  

Kool & The Gang – Soul vibrations

Sampled by:

• Joe Budden – Pump it up
  
• A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
  

Isley Brothers – Between the sheets

Sampled by:

• Notorious B.I.G. – Big poppa
  
• A Tribe Called Quest – Bonita applebum
  

Bobby Byrd – I'm not to blame

Sampled by:

• Jay-z – U don't know
  

Whodini - Friends

Sampled by:

• Nas ft. Lauryn Hill – If I ruled the world (imagine that)
  

Bill Conti – Redemption (theme from Rocky II)

Sampled by:

• T.I. – Whatever you like
  

The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia avenue

Sampled by:

• Kanye West - Heartless
  

The Fatback Band – Backstrokin

Sampled by:

• Dr. Dre – Let's get high
  

Dave McCallum – The edge

Sampled by:

• Dr. Dre & Snoop – The next episode
  

***CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE TRACKS TOGETHER***

***CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD TRACKS INDIVIDUALLY***

Asher Roth

Hate him or love him, Asher Roth has a style of his own. He kinda came out of nowhere and gathered some unwanted attention.. but after listening to I love college a few times... I have to admit.. I actually like the song. It's definitely not the greatest song... some parts dont even rhyme... but maybe having gone to University makes this song closer to home for me. I don't know. I also came across a satirical take on Roc Boys, called Roth Boys. It's pretty rediculous, definitely worth a watch.

Time isn't wasted when your getting wasted

I appologize for not posting the music video for I Love College, they disabled embedding.

ORIGINAL SUNDAYS #2

Whatup Y'all, I know it's been a few weeks since I posted the first original sunday, but my computer crashed the week after so I had to put the posts on hold until I got my computer set up again.



For those of you who don't know what this is and aren't familiar with the concept of sampling, almost any current song you've listened to has probably been sampled from an older track. I have started collecting some of these original samples and every week I will be choosing a handful of my favorites and posting them up for everyone to download.

*****GO TO THE BOTTOM TO DOWNLOAD TRACKS*****

Joe Tex - Papa was too

Sampled by:

• Audio Two - Top Billin (1988)
• EPMD - Jane
  
  
• Ice Cube - $20 Sack Pyramid

The Honey Dippers – Impeach the president

Sampled by:

• Nas – I can (2003)
• Audio Two - Top Billin (1988)
• Gangsta Gangsta - N.W.A. (1988)
• Ring Ring Ring (ha ha hey) - De la soul (May 13, 1991)
• Givin' Up the Nappy Dug Out - Ice Cube (October 31, 1991)
• Plus MANY others

Parliament Funkadelic – Not just knee deep

Sampled by:

• Me, Myself and I - De La Soul (May 1989)
• Snoop Dogg – Who am I? (1993)
• Gold Digger - EPMD (1990)

Edwin Birdsong – Cola bottle baby

Sampled by:

• Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk (March 2001)

Marcus Miller – Much too much

Sampled by:

• Can’t knock the hustle – Jay-z (August 1996)

Mel’isa Morgan - Fool’s Paradise

Sampled by:

• Can’t knock the hustle – Jay-z (August 1996)
• Stand by your man - LL Cool J (June 1, 1993)

Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Sampled by:

• Hip hop is dead – Nas

Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Darkest light

Sampled by:

• Show em' what you got - Public Enemy (April 1988)
• Friday by Ice Cube (April 11, 1995)
• Show me what you got – Jay-z (October 2006)

Rose Royce – I’m goin’ down

Sampled by:

• Oh boy – Cam’ron (2002)

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Ill-Doctrine on Race and Asher Roth

Ill-doctrine is back with a topic concerning a racial comment posted on Asher Roth's Twitter. Now I personally think Asher Roth is an idiot already... But he proves it convincingly with a racist twitter comment meant to mimic Don Imus by saying something about "nappy headed hoes". He also criticizes black rappers for being too materialistic without provided enough support for Africa. I really don't know what he's trying to prove... maybe hes just stirring up controversy to keep his name on peoples blogs.... (I guess its working). Anyways.. the video is an interesting break down of the topic at hand

Nike Basketball MVP ads

I'm bloggin direct from Hong Kong! Nike basketball continues its ad campaign featuring the former and new MVPs, Kobe and LeBron. Hilarious!
(Via hypebeast)

Chalk


Three Rings

GO CANUCKS!! WE CAN DO IT!

LETS GO CANUCKS! We can take game 6 and 7! Enjoy Al Pacino's Any Given Sunday Speech

Ryan Leslie performs at Rutgers

Performing even when it's pouring rain out and ruining his keyboard. I gotta give it up to the man, he's dedicated to his craft.

Dont't Put It In Your Mouth

I was sent the following youtube link from a friend the other day. It's one of those kid commercials that are supposed to give children advice about what not to do... like don't talk to strangers, etc. Anyways this one is about not putting things in your mouth. It reminded me of the Akinyele song that suggested quite the opposite. I remember this Akinyele joint from high school, it used to be played at every house party, and even the girls would get down to it. Anyways... doesn't it kinda sound like Akinyele sampled his hook from concerned children's advertisers? Please be warned that Akinyele is a rather raunchy rapper.

Gone Fishin' Mixtape

The new Cool Kids mixtape "Gone Fishin'". Produced mainly by Don Cannon and
Chuck Inglish. Definitely worth a listen.

Gone Fishin' via GWHH

The Tarantino Mixtape

A pretty cool compilation of clips from Quentin Tarantino's films edited by Tarantino himself.

The Making of "Every Girl"

The Bizness, producers of Young Money's "Every Girl", show you how they came up with the beat.

Mike Jones Lost His Chain

Jay Smooth, aka Ill-Doctrine, comes out with a hilarious commentary on the Mike Jones' chain snatching.

"Gold chains get stolen so we can talk about them on youtube"

Priceles.. Enjoy

Whooaaaaaaa

This iPhone app is crazy. I wonder if he put in a mode that you can just play the record normally though, since continually spinning it might get annoying after a while.

Nardwuar vs Janelle Monae

Janelle Monae is one of Bad Boy's newest artists. Her brand of music is...different. She does paint some vivid stories with her lyrics but...i dunno, it sounds like an upbeat alternative rock/punk musical half the time. Puff was quoted as saying that signing her was the biggest thing to happen to Bad Boy...EVER. What about BIG?! For shame Puffy...for shame...

Looping - computer = the needle drop

Q-tip at his best doing 'the needle drop' as he calls it. This is probably what they did back in the day before MPC's were invented. Sick!

Swizz Beatz - When I Step In The Club (video)

I've never even heard this single before, but here's the video. Swizz Beatz rhymes are wack, but he's still a good producer. I don't think that Swizz even makes an appearance in this video. It still has interesting visuals though.

Kanye West ft. Young Jeezy-Amazing (video)

Directed by Hype Williams...how many of Kanye's videos aren't directed by Hype? The visuals in this video are stunning, but there's really not much else to it. I'm tired of 808s and Heartbreak...hurry up and release your next album like you said you would, Kanye...

Jay-Z - Friend Or Foe (from Streets Is Watching)

Check out this sick clip from Streets Is Watching. For those who don't know, Streets Is Watching is a loosely made musical surrounding Jay-Z's early material. It's said to describe the situations he experienced while coming up as a rapper while still hustling (which is the basis of his early material anyways). The story line is told mostly through songs off of his early LP's. The movie is definitely worth checking out if you're a fan of Reasonable Doubt and Vol. 1, which of course, I am. This clip highlights the track Friend or Foe (Reasonable Doubt) and the follow up, Friend Or Foe '98 (Vol. 1) from the Streets movie. These two tracks are some of my favorites and exemplify how much talent S. Carter has. Enjoy, and go watch Streets!

Fabolous feat. Jeremih - It's My Time (single)

Supposedly the lead single off the upcoming album Loso's Way, produced by The Runners. I've never heard of this kid Jeremih, but he really delivers on the hook. Word is he's an R&B singer from Chicago and just recently signed on with Def Jam. Anyways, the leaks that I've heard from Loso's album have been good so far. Can't wait to hear the whole album.

via GWHH: It's My Time

Become an instant DJ

This is just too funny.

Clipse feat. Kanye West - Kinda Like a Big Deal

This new single from the Clipse just dropped today. Produced by DJ Khalil, one of my favourite producers. He may not put out the most beats, but what does make it out there is always dope. Cover art done by the infamous graffiti artist KAWS...

Via: NMC

Kinda Like a Big Deal CDQ (Dirty version)

GO CANUCKS!

It's that time of year again, and the Vancouver Canucks' band wagon is almost full. Rock 101 (local radio station) made a parody Lola by Ray Davies, dedicated to the star player, captain and goalie, Roberto Luongo. Enjoy (unless you live in St. Louis, SUCKERS!)

Original Sundays #1

Mixinainteasy is proud to bring to you a new feature to the site called "Original Sundays". Every sunday we will be posting some of the original songs that later went on to be sampled in some of our favorite hip hop tracks.

People have different views about sampling, some people think it's stealing and insist that artists should be original and come up with their own music, while others such as myself find nothing wrong with it as long as the original artist is given due credit. I think sampling is an important part of the creative process and it's a way of keeping the music of the past alive... when I think about it, if modern hip hop producers hadn't sampled all these old musical gems, I probably would have never heard of them. Personally I find it sad nowadays when I see how the radio and TV have made music so brainless that most teenagers you talk to probably won't know what a sample or a producer is and probably think that Britney Spears writes her own music.

So with that being said, here's the first installment of Original Sundays:

Click on songs to download

Leon Haywood - I wanna do somethin freaky

Sampled by: Snoop & Dre - Nothin but a G thang

The Clash - Straight to hell

Sampled by: MIA - Paper planes

Michael McDonald - I keep forgettin'

Sampled by: Warren G - Regulate

Linda Clifford - Never gonna stop

Sampled by: Nas - Street dreams

Steely Dan - Black cow

Sampled by: Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz - Deja vu (uptown baby)

Beyonce - Me myself and I

Tatyana Ali - Daydream

Stevie Wonder - Do I do

Sampled by: Ja Rule ft. Case - Livin it up

Betty Wright - Clean up woman

Sampled by: Mary J Blige - Real love

Herby Alpert - Rise

Sampled by: Notorious BIG - Hypnotize

Shirley Bassey - Diamonds are forever
Sampled by: Kanye West - Diamonds are forever

Vintage Kanye & Jay-Z in the Studio

This vid dates back to the pre-College Dropout era and shows the origin of Kanye's verse on Jigga's "The Bounce".

The Bloody Beetroots ft. Steve Aoki - Warp 1.9

The Bloody Beetroots feat. Steve Aoki - Warp from Francesco Calabrese

I had the pleasure of seeing Steve Aoki live a few months ago when he came to Vancouver. I went into the show with no big expectations as the videos of him on youtube weren't too exciting, and I wasn't a big fan of the music. Needless to say, I got to the show and was absolutely blown away... never in my life have I seen a DJ with so much energy.

Here is a new video from the Bloody Beetroots a producer duo signed to Aoki's Dim Mak label.


Download the track here: Warp 1.9

Fatman Scoop - Be Faithful

On Saturday I was at a night club that a few of my friends dj at. One of them was using the video feature of the new Serato and played the club anthem Be Faithful. I watched the video for it and thought... this has to be home made, its too weird (and cheesy) to be a real music video. I'm still not 100% convinced that its legit, but if its not, someone did a good job of making the lips sync up almost perfectly. Eitherway... enjoy the Be Faithful music video.

Ryan Leslie in the studio with Fabolous & Keri Hilson

From ryanleslie.com...

Kanye is a gayfish

Kanye is featured in the most recent South Park episode. I laughed so hard at the final scene of the episode. If you don't understand the whole "gayfish" thing, you need to see the episode. The members of Kanye’s entourage seen during Paris Fashion Week also make an appearance including Chris Julian, Don C, Taz Arnold, Fonzworth Bentley, Virgil Abloh and Ferrari Murkami.
I wonder if Kanye will freak out about this on his blog haha...

Rant #3: Britney, bitch

If you haven't heard...
Britney Spears "performed" (ie-lip-synched) last night in Vancouver. However, part-way through the show, she left the stage and didn't return for over half an hour, leaving the audience to wonder WTF was going on. About 20 min into the "break", a spokesperson announced:

“The building is awfully smoky. It is uncomfortable for everyone on stage, including Ms. Spears. Please extinguish all cigarettes – this is a non-smoking building, and the show will resume when the smoke on the stage is cleared.”
Strange...since the show opened up with a high-production intro involving smoke effects...

After another 20 min or so, Britney did return to "perform" some more songs. At the end of the concert, she did address the audience, or what was left of the audience:
“Drive safe, don’t smoke weed and rock out with your cock out. Peace mother fuckers.”

No one really knows what happened during that 40 min lapse. Some theories include Britney diva-ing out about something stupid, snorting cocaine or hooking up with K-Fed backstage. Many people left during that time and overall, the impression is that the audience was disappointed by the whole performance.

Now, I'm by no means a Britney fan. I support her in no way whatsoever and believe she has next to no talent. I definitely didn't even consider going to her "concert" but from what I've heard so far, this most recent performance only backs up my beliefs about her.

Britney most def didn't deliver what her fans wanted. Yes, we all know that she lip-synchs, but in the past at least she was part of a dazzling spectacle of choreography and lights to sorta make up for it. Rumor has it she barely even danced...
Next, you can't just alienate your audience like that by stopping the show. Whatever happened to professionalism? Or the age-old motto, "the show must go on"? If the smoke really was that bad, then grow a pair and tell the audience to stop yourself...if that was even the problem to begin with...
If she did actually just diva out during the concert, that's even worse. Of all people, she has no right to diva out about anything...seeing as how she's made millions of dollars singing songs that she didn't write or produce with her minimal vocal ability. At least in the past, she was essentially a hot, overpaid dancer. Now she's just plain overpaid. You can't pull that diva shit and expect people to just brush it off. These people paid a lot of money to see you "dance and sing", even if it's wack anyways.

Henceforth, I will be referring to Britney Spears as, more appropriately, Britney Bitch.

I hope that this performance is just another nail in the coffin for Britney Bitch's music career.

Dj Marvel's GZA Opener Set

A few weeks ago I saw GZA at the Commodore in Vancouver. My homie Dj Marvel opened up with a killer old school set. Some of the best in real hiphop mixed live! And recorded too! So I copped the player from his site. For a complete track listing (and to Dj Marvel and the Freshest Kids website) follow the link below. ENJOY!! Cuz I did!

Dj Marvel's Play List

Eminem - Don't Approach Me

Since Henry posted the new Eminem video before I did... I decided to post one of my favourite songs from Xzibit's Restless 2001 album, Don't Approach Me. I actually never knew they made a video until I was flipping through youtube earlier today. Eminem shines so much on this track. This is proof enough he's one of the best ever... in case you didn't already agree with me.

Btw... what was the big deal with 2001 anyways? Chronic 2001... Restless 2001... Eminem dropped 2001 a few times on his MM LP.. did anything exceptionally weird happen in 2001....... September 11th... damn.. it was Aftermath that did it!

However, some people said the 2001 drops were alluding the year Tupac was to come back... (the 7 day.. year.. theory) but we all know that didn't happen. Anyways.. Enjoy.

Eminem - We Made You (video)

This video is hilarious! The 1st single off Em's upcoming album Relapse.

Busta Rhymes - Hustler's Anthem feat. T-Pain (video)

Directed by Hype Williams.

Just Blaze vs Total Kaos (who?)

The story:

Some southern producer named Total Kaos claimed that Just Blaze and T-Pain jacked his beat for a song called "Sky's the Limit" for the Maino song "All the Above". Just basically goes through his entire process for making this hot song and explains how he didn't jack shit from nobody. Pretty cool to see how a track comes together in JB's studio.

Anyways, I'm behind by dude Just Blaze on this one. A ton of songs sound similar and people stumble across the same chord progressions all the time but only a small fraction of those songs ever get airplay (ie-my last post about The Dream). Also, Just probably wouldn't have lasted 10 years + in the music business if it was his style to just jacking people's stuff. Although he used to be a very sample-heavy producer in the late 90's, his music has changed a lot since then and he has evolved in the process. He arranges the tracks and also writes verses and hooks for many of the songs he's a part of these days so you gotta give him a lotta credit. And he's still one of my favourite producers.

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The Lonely Island-Like A Boss feat. Seth Rogan (video)

Reeediculous.

Happy Birthday, Pharrell!

Today, Pharrell is 36...I think...Happy Bday!

Pitbull-Blanco (video)

With guests appearances by Pharrell and Chad Hugo.

Surprisingly good...

Fast & Furious Soundtrack...here
Diggin the Neptune's tracks.

Tracklist:
1. “Bang” - Rye Rye
2. “G-Stro” - Busta Rhymes (prod. by The Neptunes)
3. “Loose Wires” - Kenna (prod. by The Neptunes)
4. “Blanco” - Pitbull (prod. by The Neptunes)
5. “Krazy” - Pitbull
6. “You Slip, She Grip” - Pitbull and Tego Calderon (prod. by The Neptunes)
7. “Head Bust” - Shark City Click (prod. by The Neptunes)
8. “Bad Girls” - Pitbull featuring Robin Thicke (prod. by The Neptunes)
9. “Virtual Diva” - Don Omar
10. “La Isla Bonita” - Tasha
album bonus track: 11. “Blanco (The Strictly Spanish Mix)” - Pitbull (prod. by The Neptunes).

Rant #2: "I don't know what kinda girls he rolls with, but if I offered a girl a tip like some dime-piece, I'd probably get slapped"

This post is all about The Dream and R. Kelly:All these thoughts started rushing into my head after I saw this video. Granted, I've been thinking about them for a long time and finally got around to saying something about it...

As far as that video clip goes, I'm not really impressed by his production skills. I'm quite certain that I've made a melody that sounds 90% the same as the first joint he made when I was messin around with my AKAI. But then again, I'm not the one that's made a living off of making music...so you be the judge.

Anyways, on to the R. Kelly part:

The way I see it, The Dream is like a modern-day R. Kelly, minus the pee pee fetish. There's a few things about him that just get to me:

First of all, I dunno what it is, but every time I hear a fat guy sing in a falsetto voice, something just doesn't seem right. It's like calling a phone sex line and hearing a woman with a sensual voice, only to find out that she's like 300lbs and lives in a trailer park. Guys like The Dream always remind of the episode of The Simpsons where Homer meets the chubby guy in the mental institute who thinks he's Michael Jackson...it's just...weird.... Of course, he later goes on to sing "Happy Birthday" to Lisa later on and is voiced by none other than MJ himself.


Now, we all know R. Kelly is notorious for putting extremely sexual/borderline inappropriate lyrics into his songs. Who can forget his song Sex In The Kitchen, where he literally screams out "Girl I'm ready to toss your salad!" (fast forward to about 1:00 in).

Oh hellllll noooooo....He ain't singing about no romaine lettuce. (For those of you that don't know what that means...go here). But, Kels sings it in his smooth R&B voice, and the song is a laid-back slow jam, so it's all good right? Wrong. Singing the words doesn't make the lyrics any better! And that's exactly why this verse from The Dream's Shawty is a 10 is just plain bad:

She Fine, Shawty Is A Dime
You Should Tip Her, You Should Tip Her
If She Good, And You Love Her
You Should Tip Her, You Should Tip Her
If She Fix You Eggs And Grits In The Morning
You Should Tip Her, You Should Tip Her
Pancakes With The Bacon On The Side
(You Should Tip Me, You Should Tip Me)

TIP her? I don't know what kinda girls he rolls with, but if I offered a girl a tip like some dime-piece, I'd probably get slapped. Show me a girl that would actually say that last line, and I'll show you a stripper. Granted, these words aren't nearly as vivid or nasty as Kels' verses, but it's the same idea. Singing in a falsetto voice don't make the words right.

Am I the only person that's noticed this shit is going on? Then again, these aren't the first instances where grimy-ass lyrics have been snuck into heavy rotation on the radio and club scene. Take for example, one of the biggest songs by Lil Jon ever...Get Low (refer to "skeet"). I especially like how the clean version of the song replaced "motherfucker" with 4 extra "skeets". That's even worse! I can't tell you how many girls I saw screaming out those words in the club. If you actually knew what that meant, you'd think twice about saying that, girl.

At the end of the day, I don't really care about profanity in songs anymore. I'm really immune to all of it these days and it'd take some really weird shit to get my attention (refer to "toss your salad") and with the state of hip hop right now, half the time I only listen to the production on the tracks...go figure. But if you're gonna talk or sing about some nasty shit, or shit that just doesn't make any sense, don't try to cover it up by putting it in an R&B song. That ain't what R&B's for, so leave that dirty talk to the Ying Yang Twins.