Yet Another Year In America December 23, 2010
With all the presents packed last week, few new songs debut.
Lil Wayne ft. Cory Gunz "6 Foot 7 Foot": Same producer as on "A Milli," and the same deep rubber-ball bass, but - maybe it's just the context my ears happen to be giving this - "A Milli" felt like a minimalist hip-hop obstacle course, while this one lives in the same blurry night club as Dev and Far East Movement and GD&TOP, half goofy and half on the psycho nerve, Wayne lo-fi'd as if he's paging us through a cellie. Relaxation absent, the man sounds hungry. TICK.
Michael Jackson Duet With Akon "Hold My Hand": And without the name on the marquee, this would have sat unnoticed among the light dance pop that owned the radio six months ago, lightness maybe helping Akon but weakening Michael, who wasn't light so much as stealthy - razor-blade thin, laser-ray precise. NO TICK.
Lil Wayne ft. Cory Gunz "6 Foot 7 Foot": Same producer as on "A Milli," and the same deep rubber-ball bass, but - maybe it's just the context my ears happen to be giving this - "A Milli" felt like a minimalist hip-hop obstacle course, while this one lives in the same blurry night club as Dev and Far East Movement and GD&TOP, half goofy and half on the psycho nerve, Wayne lo-fi'd as if he's paging us through a cellie. Relaxation absent, the man sounds hungry. TICK.
Michael Jackson Duet With Akon "Hold My Hand": And without the name on the marquee, this would have sat unnoticed among the light dance pop that owned the radio six months ago, lightness maybe helping Akon but weakening Michael, who wasn't light so much as stealthy - razor-blade thin, laser-ray precise. NO TICK.