"I want an interlude, in the nude"

A moment of silence for Lil Cease's career. No one seemed to suffer more than he did after Biggie died. All the lyrics dried up! But on with the show. Fuck Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis, this is what duets are all about.

P-I-M-P-ology

Po Pimp! Listening to this one makes me feel like I'm ready to die a happy man. And the video is minimalist genius. Twista dressing in an outfit he copped off Slick Rick ten years before the song was recorded. The burning pennies. The S-curl on the guy singing the hook. The thick women in the video. Man, it's poetry.

Sit Down Eat Your Slice of Pizza and Be Quiet

Got a lot of good things going on here. An early Mos Def cameo, before he came out of the closet as a self-righteous bonehead. A lovely forgotten rap group in Da Bush Babees. Memories of my friend Russell, who left my CD with this song on it on an airplane. I'm silently smarting over the fact that YouTube doesn't seem to have the Babees' earlier song, "Represent 4 Hip Hop," however. Get it up there!

I Make Big Money, I Drive Big Cars!

What's this? A good song? I'm afraid it will be hard to top Prince Rakeem on the absurdity scale, so I'm posting this song with a straight face, except for Bushwick Bill's verse. Watching him prance around like a trick or treater is a scene straight out of Little Man.

First Post! Prince Rakeem!

The idea behind this blog is simple. YouTube is an incredible archive of old rap and R&B videos. Every day, I'm going to post one of them. Some are good, some are just funny, some have more nostalgic value than musical. But they're all enjoyable.

So, without further ado here is Video #1: "We Love You Rakeem" by Prince Rakeem. This pre-Wu Rza video is legendary for its unbelievable corniness. Rza feels the same way about this as Orson Welles felt about "The Stranger." He's very, very embarrassed.