Freeload: Rick Ross f. The-Dream, “I Really Want”
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Everybody (50 Cent) has been beating up on Ricky Ross for being a former C.O. lately but we got love for the dude: we could frankly care less if he was a banana slug in a past life as long as he’s making jams. Plus, lately he’s been on this whole “treating women awesome” storytelling tip in his rapping. Rick Ross reinvented as modern day Miami Don Juan? We’ll take it. (And listen to it, when he performs at the FADER Fort.) Tricky Stewart produced this one. We will be bumping it in our rental convertible when we head down to Austin, Texas next week.
Freeload: Electrik Red, “Freaky Freaky”
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We love the coming-soon Electrik Red album, the bangers-Godzilla written for four of our favorite LA-based spitfires by his eminence, The-Dream, with the wizard Tricky Stewart. And we’re consistently impressed with how many different sounds the group is able to graze without sounding impatient or fickle: there are Southern style strip club jernts, techno-y woman power anthems, funky Vanity 6/Mary Jane Girls style dance pop songs. We are in fact so googly-eyed about this music we featured Electrik Red in the upcoming FADER 59, dropping at a newsstand near you in the next week. Indefatigably jamming on our iPods however is the transcendent spectral rainbow vision of a newfangled quiet club storm known as “Freaky Freaky.” It’s a fully assertive booty call track, like if Girl 6 was dialing out to her man from a pile of down feathers. Which is basically like every day of our lives.
Download: Electrik Red, “Freaky Freaky”
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posted on Jan 7, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Electrik Red, freeload, The-Dream, Tricky Stewart, Vanity 6
Video: Beyonce, “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
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Alternate title: “Single Dudes (Went Through A Second Puberty Watching This)”
Written and produced by Tricky Stewart and The-Dream.
Freeload: Ciara f. Ludacris, “High Price”
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“Oh” by Ciara featuring Ludacris was the best R&B/rap matchup of 2004. Sorry, there is no arguing with us. It just was. Sometimes we wake ourselves up in the middle of the night because we are singing it in our sleep. More often than not, when we are awake, we like to pretend we are Ciara in the “Oh” video and climb on cars to do a little booty pop, just because we can. Cece and Chris B. are the perfect teamsters, ATL scene royalty with copious amounts of attitude and personality, at least when you put a beat in front of them. FURTHERMORE, this track, allegedly from Ciara’s forthcoming third album Fantasy Ride*, is produced by frequent The-Dream collaborator Tricky Stewart, whose D we are unashamedly JOCKING (um, have you heard The-Dream’s album? dude. dude. dude). Ciara sounds like she has been rehearsing with the Metropolitan Opera vocal coach and it is BAD. TO. THA. BONE. Yeah we said it.
*Sidebar: Fantasy Ride is in competition with Lloyd’s Love Spaceship as the best title of 2008. We are waiting to see what Kellz comes up with for his post-acquittal jernt before we make a firm decision (oh nevermind), but we encourage all artists to stay imagineering. Space and fantasy are both preeeetty safe bets.
Download: Ciara f. Ludacris, “High Price”
