Millions Of Dollars Were Spent On Nelly’s Brass Knuckles, But We Still Found Typos
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Yes, we understand that copy editing is to hip-hop what kryptonite is to Superman, but the errors on the album art for Nelly’s Brass Knuckles are glaring (well, as least to our proofing-weary eyes). Check out track 10, a song called “Let It Go Lil’ Mama” featuring Pharrell. There’s no need to change the color and type size on the words “Lil’ Mama,” since the artist Lil’ Mama isn’t featured on the track. Also, for “Party People,” track 6, the song is said to feature both Fergie and Nelly, which raises the curious question: how does someone have a guest appearance on his own album? These might seem like insignificant bones to pick, but sadly this is what most interested us about Brass Knuckles. Not even the Chuck D guest spot (nope, that’s not a typo) on “Self-Esteem” is that notable. He basically does the same thing he did when he guested on Sonic Youth’s “Kool Thing,” playing the Flavor Flav role, but pro-blacker. Tell it like it is! Yeah! Word up!
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posted on Sep 25, 2008 in MUSIC NEWS
Video: Rick Ross f. Nelly & Avery Storm, “Here I Am/Maybach Music”
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So even though Avery Storm sounds like five children singing a chorus at once, this video officially has a special place in our hearts. First of all, the shot of Rick Ross “back in the day” where he looks exactly the same segues into a shot of Ross in all white walking a woman into a mansion that contains a spiral staircase and A GIRAFFE just chilling at the top as well as Snoop from The Wire also in all white eyeing the dancing ladies. The video also contains shots of Ross dancing on a pier as the sun sets, a tiger creeping around on a chain and a seamless transition into “Maybach Music” that ends with a “To Be Continued…” despite the fact that the whole scene prior to that was Ross smoking and rapping in a car.
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posted on May 19, 2008 in MUSIC VIDEO
Video: Nelly f. Fergie “Party People” (Produced by Polow Da Don)
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Nelly’s comeback clip has been kicking around for a month or two, but we just saw it laaaaaaaate last night on cable and it gave us nightmares. Since this video first aired, Nelly has released a fake hyphy song and Fergie has leaked (wocka wocka!) the theme to that despicable Sex And The City movie, yet neither of those scale the same heights of bummeritude as Polow Da Don DJing in the first fifteen seconds. It’s not the pretend scratching (everybody does it), or even the product placement for Dr Dre’s headphone line (can’t knock team spirit), it’s the simple fact that “Party People” forces us to imagine being in a club where Da Don is hypothetically DJing. And. That. Sucks. Have you ever SEEN a famous music person commandeer the decks in real life? Shit’s about as fun as tooth surgery. Jermaine Dupri (or Lil Jon or Pete Wentz or Nick Cannon-Carey), somewhere in Las Vegas where they have waterfalls in the bathroom, cueing up “Sweet Child O Mine” on an iPod, times infinity. It’s an incontrovertibly true fact of truth! But Polow! You make songs we actually want to hear when we go out! You’re better than this! Yet our hero is doomed to one day break our hearts (he wears rhinestoned tattoo shirts, it’s more or less predestined), and we have the Band-Aid faced St Lunatic to thank for such a sad 5am realization. Where was sweet, sweet Tylenol PM when we needed her most?!?
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posted on May 6, 2008 in MUSIC VIDEO
