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  • The Falsettometer Comes To Your Emotional Rescue

    Mick JaggerMichael Philip Jagger is many things. Frontman for arguably the world’s greatest rock and roll band. Serial bedder of hot-ass women (Bianca Jagger was a dime piece…and so was Jerry Hall back in the day…hell, he’s still bedding teenage Brazilian models and he looks like a raisin these days!)

    You can’t forget, as Eddie Murphy once said “Mick Jagger’s lips are so big…Black people look at him and say “he got some big-ass lips”. Ha!!!

    He is also in possession of a rarely used yet always effective falsetto, which has rared it’s head in three of my favorite Stones/Jagger songs. (more…)

  • “My Medicine”: Snoop Dogg Meets Deputy Dawg

    Snoop Dogg’s been a lot of things over the course of the fifteen-plus years that he’s been on the scene. Gangsta rap icon. Pimpery proponent. Multi-faceted pitchman. But…country singer??

    The D-O-Double G’s new song, “My Medicine” (which Snoop says is a tribute to Johnny Cash), finds Snoop getting his country-rock on with the help of Everlast, who co-wrote and produced the record (something tells me his schedule wasn’t too full). The video includes cameos from current C&W superstar Brad Paisley (who you’ve gotta love just for the fact that he seems to have a fantastic sense of humor), and country icon Willie Nelson. Willie’s involvement makes a lot more sense when you realize that the song, in typical Snoop fashion, is about weed. One can only imagine the collective fumes that were coming out of *that* trailer.

    Although “Sensual Seduction Sexual Eruption” was a fantastic record, it’s safe to say Snoop really lost his mojo quite a while ago, and this attempt to woo country music listeners falls a bit flat once the novelty of “oh, shit! Snoop’s making a country record!” wears off.  The video is cute, but there’s not much in the way of replay value, and I think the days of Snoop being a hungry rapper who made consistently good records are long gone.

    But damn, I wish I was somewhere in the general vicinity of that trailer…

  • The Warlord Speaks: Biggest Rapper Alive??

    Lil' Wayne, Best Rapper Alive?So I finally gave in to my curiosity and picked up Tha Carter III the other day, and…

    Ummm…

    Hey, it’s not too bad. In fact, it’s actually pretty good.

    No, it’s not going to share discussion time with Nas’ Illmatic and Biggie’s Ready to Die beyond the aping of their respective album covers. But it’s far from an absolute waste of polycarbonate plastic, either. So as far as my opinion is concerned, I lay smack dab in the middle of Weezy’s plaudits and dissenters.

    I really think proclaiming this guy as “Best Rapper Alive” is a big misnomer. In fact, I never understood why people use that title for him because, in the grand scheme of things, it really doesn’t make much sense.

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