Video: Pitbull f. Pharrell, “Blanco”
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Looking at the the tracklist for the Fast & Furious soundtrack, released on Star Trak this week, it’s not hard to imagine Pharrell and Chad sitting on their dirtbikes laughing about all the money they got for what appears to be a lot of leftovers—we wrote about Fam-Lay’s (now Shark City Click) “Head Bust” in early 2007! But then we realized none of this stuff ever actually saw the light of day on an actual release, so maybe it’s not so insidious after all. Plus, not only does the soundtrack represent for a lot of the reggaeton/Latino artists we’ve had in the magazine, a couple of them, Don Omar and Tego Calderon are in the movie…acting…probably better than some of the actors. Wouldn’t be the first time! Here’s the video for Pharrell and Pitbull’s single off the soundtrack, one of FIVE Pit tracks on there, in which they offer some POV gentleman clubbing.
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posted on Apr 3, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Don Omar, fam-lay, Fast & Furious, hip hop, Neptunes, Pharrell, Pitbull, reggaeton, Tego Calderon
Video: Pitbull f. Casely and DJ Khaled, “Defend Dade”
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Pitbull’s Dade County love letter includes stories of growing up underrated, extended shouts to Ricky Rawwwssss and also some pontificating on the general idea of DJ Khaled having haters since 1996(!) over familiar Miami synths we’ve come to know and feel sort of ambivalent about. You’d think all these elements combined would make a pretty weak song, but the always consistent Pitbull somehow holds it together. Our only question: who is Casely and why does he sound like Trey Songz?
Freeload: Machel Montano ft Pitbull & Lil Jon, “Floor On Fire”
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For those of us who fondly remember the sweat gland funk induced by this trio with “The Anthem” remix, “Floor On Fire” is like heinous chemical warfare on our deodorant. That all three of them are unsigned at the moment somehow makes this even better, probably because we are now imagining Pitbull, Machel and Lil Jon sharing an apartment in Miami making booty jams just for fun.
Download: Machel Montano ft Pitbull & Lil Jon, “Floor On Fire”
Freeload: DJ Laz f. T-Pain, “Esa Morena 08″
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Pitbull’s recent single “The Anthem” was built off a sizeable chunk of the Euro hit “Calabria,” but it also borrowed liberally from DJ Laz’s 1991 bass nugget “Mami El Negro,” resulting in perhaps the single best throwback move of this whole retro-ass year. Two decades of Miami club cheese, mashed up like a margarita in a plastic 22-oz yard glass. ¡Toma! But if “The Anthem” melted your face off, “Esa Morena” gives the rest of your body the Raiders Of The Lost Ark treatment by updating Laz’s spazzy 1996 merengue hybrid “Esa Morena” with a heaping helping of T-Pain. (Maybe you’ve heard of that guy?) Somebody go remake Maestro’s “Table Dance” next! For more Miami Bass goodies – including some backstory on both those Laz originals – check out DJ Craze’s Vinyl Archaeology from F53.
Download: Freeload: DJ Laz f. T-Pain, “Esa Morena 08″
Video : Pitbull f. Machel Montano & Lil Jon, “The Anthem Remix (Defense)”
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The original version of “The Anthem” has been crunktifying quinceañeras for months now, but it took Machel Montano jumping on the refix to bring it to the bashments. We’re not sure what either of them did for someone to throw some actual paper down for a video, but when you fuck with both artists as hard as we do, you’re geeked for any visuals, let alone the two haunting the freaky abyss of their own video set as willy-bouncing ghosts.
Freeload: Pitbull’s Free Agent Mixtape
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Pitbull’s Free Agent mixtape is predictably chocked full of party jams, money jams, and jams about partying with a lot of money, but not so predictably, remixes of songs by FADER Gen Fers B.O.B. and Kid Cudi. Another gem has Señor 305 riding out over issue 55 covergirl Estelle’s “American Boy.” Albeit about seven and a half years late, between channeling Edwin Starr and Kanye’s disco electrolysis, Pitbull has managed to turn a song about cross continental crushing into a call for political reform. Think of it as a MoveOn blast for the summer season.
Pitbull, “American War” (from Free Agent Mixtape)
Download: Pitbull’s Free Agent Mixtape
