Freeload: Maino, “Getaway Driver” (From GTA IV)
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Just as we were posting the triumphant return of Maino last week Enuff dropped this into his Friday afternoon slot on Hot 97 and the office went slightly bananas, partially due to the song and partially due to writing drink reviews for the magazine. And just as we were about to put its piano-plinking knock up, dudes started jamming “Road to the Riches” across the hall. It’s like an episode of Rap Lost in here. Get “Getaway” and some other GTA IV goodies over on Xclusives Zone and don’t feel too bad for the pilfering. That game made half a billion dollars already.
Download: Maino, “Getaway Driver”
Audio: The Rapture, “No Sex For Ben”
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In the new Grand Theft Auto IV (have you heard about it? Kind of been flying under the media radar…) there are a dizzying number of in-game radio stations that the GTA creators designed to “feel like what you would want to hear if you came to New York. Not necessarily what you do find here, but what you ought to hear if it was like the way you’d imagined it.” Which means reggae don Bobby Konders gets to host a Massive B station featuring Bunji and Mavado and Green Lantern and THE FINISHER!!! Mister Cee have a fake Hot 97 of their very own. But the alternarock station (”Radio Broker”) is probably where art and life diverge the most – it’s Juliette Lewis playing !!!, LCD Soundsystem, and this previously-unreleased (and amusing) Rapture b-side, a four-minute diss of Gucci Soundsystem DJ Ben Rymer (”Lookin like a poor man’s Arthur Baker…”) that sounds not unlike Lo Fidelity All Stars. Maybe that’s how they get down in Liberty City, but everytime we’ve turned on NYC rock radio lately it’s been drop-D tuning butt-rock. Or STP. Where’s the Weiland, bros?
