Freeload: Mariah Carey f. Gucci Mane, “Obsessed” MP3
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Ahhh! The heavens have parted and the sun has rained down droplets of metallic confetti on our once-dreary lives! YES it is a new Mariah Carey song, off her amazingly titled next record Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel. We needed the ever-welcoming sound of her glossy high range and spiritual Xanadu to get us through the rest of the day, and we like the comfortingly high-low combo of Mariah, IROC-Z autotune, and Gucci Mane thugging it out on the intro. However this track has sparked a minor office debate: If you are a rapper, and you do a guest spot on a Mariah track, are you cursed? Examples used: Ol Dirty Bastard (RIP-las drogas), Bone Thugs N Harmony (chaos), Jay-Z (he was on “Heartbreaker” in ‘99, arguably his pique), Cam’Ron (froke out for like five years; drove an unfortunately colored sports car), Busta Rhymes (got into a weight loss contest with Nore), Nelly (who?). It’s hard to imagine anything toppling Gucci from atop the swag staff but we warn him to protect his, as they say, neck from the great winds of destiny. Mariah will always prevail!
Download: Mariah Carey f. Gucci Mane, “Obsessed” (via Young Sav)
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posted on Jun 16, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Bone Thugs N Harmony, Busta Rhymes, Cam'ron, freeload, Gucci Mane, hip hop, Jay-Z, Mariah Carey, Ol Dirty Bastard, R&B
Freeload: Busta Rhymes, New Bullshit Songs + I Bullshit You Not Mixtape
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Bussa Buss sounds so froggish sometimes we actually worry he is going to choke on his own tongue or the hairball in the back of his throat. But sometimes it just makes us laugh and we appreciate him for that. Fortunately for everyone, the latter has been happening a lot more than the former recently as he works up to the release of his new album Back On My B.S., two tracks from which have recently been donated to the internet. They are not great, but we are not going to pass immediate judgment on the whole album just yet because Busta’s recent I Bullshit You Not tape was pretty excellent—jubilant and endearing like when your fat uncle rolls off the couch on the first hot day of the year to drink his beer on the sidewalk and holler at girls and the ice cream man. Get it all below and cross your lucky fudgsicle sticks that his album is decent. In the meantime, revisit our FADER TV interview with Busta above where he talks about weed.
Download: Busta Rhymes, I Bullshit You Not mixtape
Download: Busta Rhymes, “Give Em What They Want”
Download: Busta Rhymes f. Jelly Roll, “Sugar”
Video: Capone-N-Noreaga Feat. Ron Browz & Busta Rhymes, “Rotate”
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We think an opportunity was missed here for some vegetarian vs vegan humor considering all the fur in the house, but whatever, as long as dudes are working.
Freeload: Q-Tip f. Busta Rhymes, Raekwon & Lil Wayne, “Renaissance Rap (Remix)”
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Aside from Q-Tip’s kind of fun idea of borrowing the “The Symphony” concept (please shoot a video), there is some genuine insight to be drawn from this remix, and it comes, of course, with Wayne’s verse at the end. No it’s not the absence of auto-tune or rock star tropes, and neither is it that he has some great lines (”Ever since I made it up out of Middle America, everybody wanna be up in my genital area.”). It’s that he truly sons three New York legends at their own game, rapping like he grew up on Linden Blvd wrecking basic beats. This is the answer for old NYC rap heads who screw their faces when a carload of kids drives by blasting Weezy. Kids like him because he kills shit, not because they suddenly love a different geography. As soon as a kid from the boroughs steps up like this, everybody will back him. But it’s kind of revealing that on this all-star remix, the Big Apple is represented by three rappers in the twilights of their careers, and the “crazy guy” from Louisiana is the reason Hot 97 has played this song a hundred times over the last two days.
Download: Q-Tip f. Busta Rhymes, Raekwon & Lil Wayne, “Renaissance Rap (Remix)”
**BONUS** Katie Couric’s Lil Wayne Interview Teaser:
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posted on Jan 30, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Busta Rhymes, freeload, hip hop, Lil Wayne, Q-Tip, Raekwon
Freeload: Jamie Foxx f. Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes & T-Pain, “Blame It (Remix)”
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Dudes, if we wrote down everything we’ve blamed on the alcohol you could have a ticker tape parade, but what makes this song kind of touching is the knowledge that Jamie Foxx frequently gets twisted and dances with Joaquin Phoenix. It’s not a hollow club song, it means something to Jamie.
Download: Jamie Foxx f. Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes & T-Pain, “Blame It (Remix)”
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posted on Jan 16, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Busta Rhymes, freeload, hip hop, Jamie Foxx, Lil Wayne, R&B, T-Pain
FADER TV: Busta Rhymes Talks “Arab Money” and His Debt to Weed
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Busta Rhymes is still pretty huge. We say that not to reference the leftover dieselness from his last album push, but to acknowledge that after a storied career of some eighteen plus years, he’s easily one of the most world renowned, if not world adored rappers alive. His next album Blessed, originally scheduled to release this year, has been pushed back to March on the strength of his latest single “Arab Money.” The song seems to have stirred up just as much controversy as it has iTunes sales, but before this interview, we had yet to hear Busta explain exactly why, and how, someone might be getting “Arab Money.”
Video: Busta Rhymes, “Arab Money”
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We put up a bunch of words about this song already, and now there is a video to go with them.
Video: Busta Rhymes, “I Got Bass”
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There is not much else we can add to our feelings about this song that wasn’t expressed in our original post of the mp3. In the video, Busta pulls himself out of his shoe, then smells it and makes a stink face, which is the opposite of how we feel about it but it’s getting to be winter and people get down on themselves.
A Rational Conversation Between Two Adults: Busta Rhymes’ “Arab Money”
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Every Tuesday, FADER deputy editor Eric Ducker gets on instant messenger and “discusses” a subject that’s been on his mind with another member of our staff or a special guest. After the jump, read his condensed (and emoticon-free) conversation with editorial assistant Felipe Delerme about Busta Rhymes’ “Arab Money,” the new single produced by Ron Browz that you can listen to here. Delerme wrote a Gen F on Browz in the upcoming FADER #58 and has been thinking a lot about Harlem recently.
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posted on Nov 18, 2008 in RATIONAL CONVERSATION tags A Rational Conversation, Arab Money, Busta Rhymes, Ron Browz
Freeload: Bangladesh f. Rick Ross & Busta Rhymes, “Girls Love Me”
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Almost every time we write about Bangladesh we talk about how his music sounds like a real life terror. Sometimes he sounds like swarm of bees and other times like an out of control ice cream truck. Basically, what we’re trying to get across is that dude consistently makes the most listenable songs out of the most unlistenable sounds. “Girls Love Me” doesn’t use any of those wild and crazy sounds, unless you count light hand drums as crazy, which we actually do since most rap these days sounds like a volcano on South Beach. Also, Bangladesh is a master at coaxing out the version of Busta Rhymes that we like, the one that takes huge gulps of air until his verse and then doesn’t breathe once for like two minutes.
Download: Bangladesh f. Rick Ross & Busta Rhymes, “Girls Love Me”
