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Today’s entry is Gangster Rap. It’s a mashup of Eazy E and The Game called Still Cruisin’. It had to be a mashup because The Game was only 16 when Eazy E died.

What’s interesting about this song is the beat is amazing and there is no misogyny or homophobia. Neither rapper is (was) a card carrying member of Pro-feminist Men of America, but for whatever reason, they just go with the other classic old-school gangster rap themes.

(I thought about trying to write a pseudo-babble post-modern analysis of the song, but I don’t have the energy to problematize a sub-text that has been inscribed on popular consciousness…Sorry!)

Anyway, enjoy. Be warned–that piano hook is gonna stick in your head.

Well, it’s the holiday that Ronald Reagan vetoed.

Happy MLK Day.

If you haven’t listened to or watched Public Enemy, By the Time I Get To Arizona, this is a good day to do so.

I would embed the video, but the person who uploaded it to YouTube won’t allow that.

So, Click Here

Enjoy!

(If I wasn’t feeling lazy, I’d upload and embed the audio of the song, but I am feeling lazy, so sorry..)

Annie and I saw Juno last week. It’s a great movie overall. There were two annoying parts (highlight text to read partial-spoilers: There was one use of “gay” as a pejorative and it was a bummer she didn’t just get the abortion (of course, then there wouldn’t have been a movie. that’s a longer discussion of how to script that in a non-anti-abortion way).).

Anyway, the opening credit sequence is amazing and the song is great. If the job of credits is to get you in the mood for the rest of the film and feeling pumped to be in the theater, these credits are a solid 5 out of 5.

Fresh Air also had a long interview with the writer and director.

Here’s the song: “All I Want” by Barry Louis Polisar.

Enjoy!

My friend, Bijan blogs (“tumblrs”) constantly. One of the things he likes to do is post a song every so often.

Ever the copycat, I’ve decided to do the same thing.

So, this (week’s? month’s?) song is “The Green Fields of France” as performed by the Dropkick Murphys. These are also the guys that sing “I’m shipping up to Boston,” which was featured in the movie The Departed (it too is amazing).

But for a punk band, their arrangement of The Green Fields of France is amazing. Once again, punk demonstrates that it has many strands, some of them quite mighty.

So, enjoy the song.

And if you want to read more about its origins, go to its Wikipedia entry.