Megan Pete really knows how to write a really, really dirty song.
More to the point, she knows how to write a great, strong breakup song - which she says was based on a lot of past relationships and had nothing to do with being shot by Tory Lanez.
Yes, she was shot by Tory Lanez, in 2020. In both feet. She was in bad shape.
The song, with the title a reference to the popular post-coital birth control, is angry and bold and.... really really good. I hope we have her as an artist for a long time to come.
You know, I appreciate the need for a helper track, but Megan is raw and honest in this live performance, even with that.
The first hip hop song to be a radio hit samples "Good Times" by Chic pretty heavily, so much so that Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards sued for songwriting credits. The song, ironically, started when the Sugarhill Gang and Fab Five Freddy JOINED Chic on stage and came up with an impromptu rhyme to go along with the LIVE bassline of this song.
That wasn't the only sample they used. "Here Comes That Sound Again" by Love De-Luxe was also sampled. Did Alan Hankshaw get a songwriting credit? Noooooooooo.
More importantly, this was the song that brought hip hop to a broad audience. No, it wasn't the first, but it was the first hit. It would go on to be one of the most influential one-hit wonders in history.
No, Mariah Carey didn't get a songwriting credit here.
You know who did?
Tina Weymouth. Chris Frantz. Adrian Belew. Steven Stanley.
This really dirty song reached #3 on the pop charts - and #8 on the year end chart - and was a worldwide starmaking hit for Latto. The winner of the 2016 TV reality competition The Rap Game, she's come out strong with a bravado that Megan Three Stallion no one can match.
Plus, lyrically, Latto does pay tribute to Mariah here, even if it's a Tom Tom Club sample.
Mariah DID get a songwriting credit on this remix (100% true)...... as well as a vocal one. DJ Khaled gets his two cents in at the beginning and end of this as well.
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I'm not a huge Mariah Carey fan. I am really, really not. I am especially sick of her right now, when we have all heard that goddamn Christmas song on repeat, everywhere. Little known fact: this song was THAT song's follow up single.
But this song - which she lyrically co-write with Dave Hall (musically and partially lyrically, it was written by Adrian Belew, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Steven Stanley) - really understands the song it sampled, and doesn't disrespect it. It's not a ripoff. It's an homage. And it's probably the best thing Mariah Carey has ever done.
If you listen to the lyrics, you know that the Beasties are talking about being on a long tour, as a lot of young musicians have to do, where you don't get to sleep much. Their home base being Brooklyn, that would be when sleep would come.
Now you know.
This song, produced by Rick Rubin, fuses rock and hip hop, with a guitar riff straight out of "TNT" by AC/DC and a title that invokes Motörhead (No Sleep 'til Hammersmith), However, the three part harmonies were boastful and bold, typical of late-1980's rap music.
The song was a band and crowd favorite at their shows, with the group frequently using this as their closing song. Who could resist the frantic, energetic feeling of this tune?
Why yes, that is Penn and Teller playing the big baddies in this video.
This very quick-tongued song, co-produced by Run-DMC and Rick Rubin (best known for metal producing before this). Utilizing samples from "My Sharona" by The Knack and "Mickey" by Toni Basil (the former sued the band over the sample), the combined forces of Run, DMC, JamMaster Jay, and Rick Rubin solidified the group's strength in fusing hip hop music with hard-edged rock. They were, in essence, the gangsta rap of their time.
Shoutout to Penn Jillette, who does a "great" job with the tune at the end of the video.
Why post a band that hasn't been together since the mid-1990's as your last song of 2022? Why post a 30 year old song that isn't even available on Spotify?
I've stated earlier that I am a fan of Mary's Danish - one of my favorite bands of all time. This despite the fact that the band only had three albums and a live EP (with a version of "Foxy Lady" as a bonus). None of these albums were available on any streaming service.... and there was a good reason for that.
You see, the masters were lost. All of them.
In 2022, the masters for their EP, Live + Experienced, and their first album, There Goes The Wondertruck, (some thought to be lost in the famous Capitol Records fire of 2008), originally released on the defunct Chameleon Records, were found in the Warner Brothers archives by Gretchen Seeger herself. So, now, we can stream "Don't Crash The Car Tonight".
This song is from their third album, American Standard. That and their second album, Circa, are still missing, as they were part of the Morgan Creek records archives - a record label that doesn't exist anymore, although Morgan Creek FILMS does, and they do license music.
So, in very much the John Oliver style, I have personally asked Morgan Creek Films for the licensing rights for these two albums - just in the hopes that they were open up their archives and find these masters. Let's see if this gets us anywhere.
