You can go ahead and exhale. While it's not the "oh shit, Busta's back!!!" verse that I imagined in my hopeful moments (for example his "Choppers" verse was better), Busta legitimately killed this shit. Not only do we get some of that vintage quadruple time flow, the man actually throws together some legit lyricism. Listen and download...
I know a lot of people didn't listen to me when I said that Nikkiya's new album "SpeakHER" was doper than some uncut Malaysian White Tiger, but maybe now that the experimental songstress has grabbed the most powerful man in indie music Tech N9ne and the best rapper alive (with giant red hair) Rittz for a remix to "When I Was High" y'all will finally listen.
Is there a safer bet in hip-hop right now than Slaughterhouse? That's a rhetorical question. No, there's not. There's exactly a 0.0% chance they're dropping something wack, and the same goes for Yelawolf. As for T.I.? Maybe not as dependable, but when he's on, he's fucking on. In other words, there was never any doubt that Yela's "Hard White (Remix)" would sound dope. Listen and download...
I don't care if this makes me sounds like a rappity rap rap nerd, that's exactly what I am. If you're not feeling this "They Say (Remix)" you don't actually love hip-hop. I mean, do you really get what's happening here? A track with Rapper Big Pooh, Phife Dawg (of Tribe Called Quest) and T3 (of Slum Village)? Listen and download...
Given some time I think a lot of us have reached a certain acceptance - kind of like you do with your drunk uncle. You're not exactly happy he's a drunk, but he's ruining family picnics long enough for you to accept that's who he is, he's not going to change, so you might as well enjoy his occasionally funny jokes.
That's exactly how I feel about Juicy J. Under no rational circumstances should I keep the Three 6 alum's music on repeat, and yet in the right mood (my ignorant rap mood) that motherfucker cooks up the most delicious shit.To this day "Who Da Neighbors" is at the top of my ignorant playlist. So when Snoop hopped on for the remix? Yep, I don't care if I get killed in the comments, I'm posting.
Kendrick Lamar may be the best thing to come out of L.A.'s rap scene since Raiders caps, but the "#Section80" creator isn't afraid to grow an ironic mustache, get a sparrow tattoo, crack open a PBR and hang out with the hipsters. Ok, that's an exaggeration, but he did jump on the remix to Foster the People's mega hipster hit "Pumped Up Kicks". Listen and download...
Even a couple years ago a "rapper" rhyming over indie rock instrumentals would have been unheard of, but the game's slowly but surely becoming more expansive, thanks in no small part to the wonders of the interwebs. Suddenly it's rare, but not unheard of, to hear, say, Aleon Craft flipping his own version of Mansions on the Moon's "Broken Paradise". Listen and download...
A real remix doesn't just put a new beat behind a well known song, or at worst tack on a new verse, it fundamentally changes the way you experience the song. And if that sounded overly deep than sorry, but I'm digging the fuck out of K-Def's "Blue Magic" remix. By trashing The Neptunes (of course) synthetic and bouncing beat on the original and replacing it with a bluesy backdrop the tracks' even better.
If certain segments of RefinedHype Nation we're furious I even introduced them to "Racks", they're going to lose their fucking minds over this "Racks" extended remix, which takes the almost absurdly auto-tuned radio banger and turns it into a DJ Khaled-esque mega-cut featuring 197 emcees. Ok, actually "just" 13 rappers, but there are some seriously big names on the list. Listen and download...
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