I’ve been listening to 95.5 The Beat (Atlanta’s new number 1 for hip hop) while driving lately. Although several songs will make me switch it off (e.g. Laffy Taffy and some of the frantic ones with a lot of yelling), there are a couple of songs that are great to listen to. My fave right now is Rihanna’s “S.O.S.” Another new one is LL Cool J’s “Control Myself,” a very listenable production, which is similar to “My Humps” both in that it is a humorous dialog and that provokes an initial incredulity. Poor LL, he’s struggling mightly with temptation.
Off the Beat, but still on music, after locating “Control Myself” on Yahoo, I had a whim to visit Yahoo Music France and was pleased to find “La Boulette” by Diams is number 2 there. It’s got a great hip hop beat and those French dipthongs make for an interesting flow. It also features lovely whistling, but what is best of all is the insistent though unobtrusive piano.
April 25th, 2006
by Nannie
“S.O.S” I liked it better the first time. I like Tom Petty for his mini-
malism, but Hip Hop is TOO minimal. Oh!