Songs to make you cool...

Ok, it's time for me to sprinkle this blog with some MAGIC that's been clogged up and tangled up due to some personal life drama. No more! Let the shit fest begin. Here's a quick preview and shout out to new music that's popping up on my radar:

Rich Boy - Bigger Than The Mayor mixtape
Rich Boy looked awfully awkward in his own video for Good Things standing next to a roided and oiled up Polow Da Don and Keri Hilson at the beach. Like, dude, aren’t you dying of heat in those jeans? At least wear some shorts man! But then maybe this is the sort of self imposed torture that Rich Boy puts himself through to keep spitting in that dead serious marble-mouthed growl we love so much. Urgency's the name of the game and Rich Boy delivers again with new mixtape Bigger Than The Mayor. Polow is noticeably absent from production duties but there are heaters a plenty. Check out thumpers Chevy a Monsta, PO’d Up, Wrist Out The Window. This is a pretty great follow up to dude’s debut from last year and it’s just a mixtape! It’s official: I'm penciling in Rich Boy’s next album as the most anticipated Hip Hop album to drop in 2008.

Fam Lay - The Dirtyway Mixtape
I was pretty iffy about hipster buzz bands (see Vampire Weekend) taking their sonic cues from African pop music. Frankly, I was secretly waiting for dude’s from the Hip Hop gutter to do the same. Enter Neptunes affiliate Fam Lay. The Norfolk rapper’s upcoming Dirtyway mixtape is an out-of-the-leftfield stab at Afrobeat-rap. So far, only cuts like Dirtyway(Intro) and War Music have surfaced but I'm totally up on these snippets and so should you!

Flight of the Conchords
Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros was one of those youtube clips that I sent around the office and subsequently heard random bursts of laughter bubble up from distant cubicles. Now that the Flight of the Conchords dropped an album featuring songs like the aforementioned track from their HBO show, I'm pretty relieved that I no longer need to send out a mass email with like 15 youtube links and can now just have the email read “Get this album!”. Thanks, dudes.