The Human Digest

My Ni**as - PSD (Da Bidness Part II, 2011)

PSD was just released from a four year prison sentence after being caught with 6,000 E pills at the airport. Kind of fucked up considering most of his friends from Thizz Ent are probably about to go in after this months giant bust.  He filmed a video for “My Ni**as” which was far and away one of my top ten songs from 2011. Definitely the highlight from PSD, Messy Marv and Keak Da Sneaks Da Bidness II.

The video isn’t anything mind blowing, but gives me an excuse to post this melancholy piece of introspection. PSD scrambles perfectly over this sad instrumental, you should listen to this and have a good cry.

“Caprice Classic - I don’t bother Impala, holler at ya patna’ ni**a, smoke and drink ‘til we wobble, ya follow?”

Whole Lotta Ones - Black Cobain (Feat. Travis Porter) (Cheers, 2012)

“Ass so fat if it’s fake we don’t know it”

Earthquakes & Tsunamis.  Am I off base or does this sound eerily similar to “The Motto” instrumental?

Wait, I lied.  This wasn’t on Black Cobains Cheers tape even though it was advertised as so.

I Just Look Like This - Trash Bag Gang (B!tch I got a Plug, 2011)

I wake up with a different, random rap song on my mind almost every morning.  Most often it’s a chorus, sometimes it’s a chorus from a Young Dolph song that I only listened to once about 6 months ago (why?).  This may or may not be the first installment of “Wake Up Brain Songs”. 

Very reckless drug dealing related raps from Red Dot a month before he was indicted (related?).  Trash Bag Gang’s B!tch I Got a Plug was absurdly underrated and overlooked. By far the best “put my friends on” album that I can remember.  It also featured a highly questionable rendition of “It’s Raining Men”.

I’m A Thug - YG (Feat. Meek Mill) (400 Degreez, 2012)

I know it isn’t cool to like YG on the internet, but this is a hit. I don’t know shit about jerking and the jerk movement in LA but this beat (and most of YG’s shit) sounds like what I would identify as jerkin’.  This shit just knocks, more what I’d expect to come out of the Bay than LA but it makes sense since he works with IAMSU! and this club banger type shit is more their vibe. Meek Mill’s verse obviously eclipses YG’s, pointing out how deficient of a rapper he really is. There’s still a draw for YG though, I wouldn’t want to hear Meek rap two or three verses over this. It’s mostly the overdone accent and the way he accentuates the last word of each line.  And the chorus YG comes up with is nuts.  

Also a good time to mention something hilarious The Fader noted about Kendrick Lamar.  His little sister doesn’t listen to any Kendrick but knows all the words to YG’s tracks. I’m a fan of Kendrick, but I feel like that gives a pretty good indication of the internet / real life audience separation (not really though because Kendrick’s sister is 12).  Then again, at a show I went to last week, people were going out of their minds for every Schoolboy Q song that was played.

Verses I wish lasted forever - HD’s from “Rick Flair”.