Summer’s winding down, but you can still stir the ice in your mojito to this previously unreleased Lupe-worked Kanye beat. The sample seems to be based on the 1969 Lennon-McCartney b-side, “Don’t Let me Down,” sped up (whirrr’d), sprinkled with a faint tinkling ringaling and driven by some beatbombs dropped in true Ye fashion.
enjoy the last days of summer, folks.
Lupe Fiasco – Birds & The Bees (prod Kanye)
(via Fakeshoredrive)
Filed under: Aural Pleasure, Reeeemix!, SSS[strongsexysirens] | Tags: summer jams
it’s monsoon season in Seoul right now, maybe a bit on the waning side of things but that only means more hellish-humidity-with-no-rainstorm-relief-in-sight kinda weather, which makes proper professional gear all the more stifling and utterly unbearable.
the only thing that’s getting me through the day is my digital gang of soul-swangin summer-stoop hangin ladies.
Estelle est belle
Estelle: does she really need an introduction? mayhap, daymap. She’s one more o’ dem London exports sportin the UK bawl and sassafrass. You might’ve heard her single with Kanye, “American Boy,” the original version of which I’ve never heard but of all the katrillions of remixes out there, the MR GASPAR ditty is all you’ll wanna hear. Faith like Evans, believe.
Estelle – American Boy feat Kanye (MR GASPAR remix)
Nowadays, I’m head-over-heels-ing for her song, “No Substitute Love” and “Magnificent.” I have a stupid habit of not connecting titles to lyrics, so for the longest time I thought the chorus in “No Substitute Love” was saying, “I’m not your prostitute lover, Ohh noooo.” The message seems to be the same, though.
Estelle – No Substitute Love (Prod by Wyclef Jean & Jerry \”wonda\” Duplesis
Estelle – Magnificent (feat Kardinal Offishall)
ms Imani Coppola
Little Jackie is also one of dem sexy sirens who make you forget the heat but still bring on the swoon. She’s been getting compared to Amy Winehouse, but that means nothing nowadays–seems like you just need to have a bit of character, a lot of hair and swagger in rhythm to be tagged as the next queen of poprock candy ie snap, CRACKle, bop. I just dig her highly digestible sound bites: “There’s only one me in the galaxy/I am an endangered species/This kind of flower doesn’t grow on earth/Just lettin ya know for what it’s worth”–it’s almost like she’s spittin some Little Prince philosophy right thurrr. She’s certainly tamed me.
Little Jackie – The World Should Revolve Around Me
where there’s fire, ring the alarm, let the sirens come and save you.
