Labels: kanye west, video

Unlike many of his colleagues, finding a new J. Cole song everyday is something you have not and probably will never see. The Lil Wayne or Gucci guerrilla approach by releasing 12 new tracks per week doesn’t work for most artists. More often than not, it harms their respective career more than benefits. Recently, Elite, one of Cole’s go-to-producers, released his own project entitled “The Groundwork.” On the tape, a laundry list of (familiar) records he has produced over the years including those from The Lox, Jim Jones, Hell Rell and Joe Budden can be found. Towards the end, a previously unreleased J. Cole cut was liberated.
“Playground,” which was recorded during The Warm Up days, was left off because according to Elite, “it didn’t fit the final track listing.” Over the fast tempo yet contemplative Elite creation, Cole ponders the true intentions of females he meets as his star continues to increase with each day. The second verse is a dedication to cut throat nature of the industry and how he was given the chance to take deals which would have derailed his career before it even received a chance to blossom.

Before a star was born, it had to be cultivated first. Here’s a small sample of that grooming process.

Listen: J. Cole - Playground (audio)

Labels: audio, j. cole

Labels: music video, sade

Who would’ve ever thunk that the uncredited female voice that co-signed Flo Rida’s Dead or Alive & oral sex pleasure-meshing hook on “Right Round” would snatch up a solo hit of her own a couple seasons later, let alone a massively popular hit that would not only open the new year as the #1 pop single in the country, but break download sales records while there?
That’s the reality for pop newcomer Ke$ha and her debut single “Tik Tok”, an air-brainy, white girl rap concoction about on-the-budget “swagger”, Jack Daniels-assisted dental hygiene practices and spending booze-filled nights dodging “boys trying to touch my junk” at the local hot spots while in search for her ideal boy-toy: Dudes that “look like Mick Jagger” (cue puke in mouth).
It’s as uber trashy as it is horrifically catchy (oh, who could deny that classic DJ-directed pop hook or the Twitter-iffically now opening line, “Wake up in the morning feelin’ like P Diddy”?) and basically pleading for some rapper to attach some equally love it/hate it lines to it.
No surprise at all that that rapper ends up being guilty pleasure-magnet Pitbull, who fronts this remix with a verse that re-heats old ’90’s rap dialogue (”There’s some freaks in the living room getting it on and-”, yeah, we all know how that one ends) while providing other Spring Break in Cancun-centered lyrical fluff that will have your grandparents shaking their heads in disgust.
Whether you dig it’s glitchy dance-pop inanity or chalk it up as Reason No. 5,864,221 why today’s music sucks balls, be prepared to hear it ad infinitum well into the Two Thousand and Dime.

Ke$ha’s debut, Animal, drops January 5th.

Listen: Ke$ha feat. Pitbull - Tic Tok [remix] (audio)

Labels: audio, ke$ha, pitbull, remix

Labels: mos def, music video, talib kweli

Labels: jay-z, music video, swizz beatz

Labels: kanye west, video

Unlike many of his colleagues, finding a new J. Cole song everyday is something you have not and probably will never see. The Lil Wayne or Gucci guerrilla approach by releasing 12 new tracks per week doesn’t work for most artists. More often than not, it harms their respective career more than benefits. Recently, Elite, one of Cole’s go-to-producers, released his own project entitled “The Groundwork.” On the tape, a laundry list of (familiar) records he has produced over the years including those from The Lox, Jim Jones, Hell Rell and Joe Budden can be found. Towards the end, a previously unreleased J. Cole cut was liberated.
“Playground,” which was recorded during The Warm Up days, was left off because according to Elite, “it didn’t fit the final track listing.” Over the fast tempo yet contemplative Elite creation, Cole ponders the true intentions of females he meets as his star continues to increase with each day. The second verse is a dedication to cut throat nature of the industry and how he was given the chance to take deals which would have derailed his career before it even received a chance to blossom.

Before a star was born, it had to be cultivated first. Here’s a small sample of that grooming process.

Listen: J. Cole - Playground (audio)

Labels: audio, j. cole

Labels: music video, sade

Who would’ve ever thunk that the uncredited female voice that co-signed Flo Rida’s Dead or Alive & oral sex pleasure-meshing hook on “Right Round” would snatch up a solo hit of her own a couple seasons later, let alone a massively popular hit that would not only open the new year as the #1 pop single in the country, but break download sales records while there?
That’s the reality for pop newcomer Ke$ha and her debut single “Tik Tok”, an air-brainy, white girl rap concoction about on-the-budget “swagger”, Jack Daniels-assisted dental hygiene practices and spending booze-filled nights dodging “boys trying to touch my junk” at the local hot spots while in search for her ideal boy-toy: Dudes that “look like Mick Jagger” (cue puke in mouth).
It’s as uber trashy as it is horrifically catchy (oh, who could deny that classic DJ-directed pop hook or the Twitter-iffically now opening line, “Wake up in the morning feelin’ like P Diddy”?) and basically pleading for some rapper to attach some equally love it/hate it lines to it.
No surprise at all that that rapper ends up being guilty pleasure-magnet Pitbull, who fronts this remix with a verse that re-heats old ’90’s rap dialogue (”There’s some freaks in the living room getting it on and-”, yeah, we all know how that one ends) while providing other Spring Break in Cancun-centered lyrical fluff that will have your grandparents shaking their heads in disgust.
Whether you dig it’s glitchy dance-pop inanity or chalk it up as Reason No. 5,864,221 why today’s music sucks balls, be prepared to hear it ad infinitum well into the Two Thousand and Dime.

Ke$ha’s debut, Animal, drops January 5th.

Listen: Ke$ha feat. Pitbull - Tic Tok [remix] (audio)

Labels: audio, ke$ha, pitbull, remix

Labels: mos def, music video, talib kweli

Labels: jay-z, music video, swizz beatz

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