The Hip-Hop Hour

Last night’s show turned conceptual in the second half (post-midnight), let’s see if you can figure out the concept!!!

Clipse- “Young Boy”: When the fuck is that new single coming out??? ME WANT.
Dead Prez- “It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop”: Have you ever listened to a whole album by these guys? They possess both the fervor and rationality of Ron Paul supporters (google him).
Edan- “Promised Land”: Chris is totally gay for this guy, just look at his past three profile pictures. Fortunately for Chris, the guy makes pretty good music so they should have a wonderful life together.
Talib Kweli- “Going Hard”: I’ve never heard The Beautiful Struggle. So far, not impressed.
Ludacris- “Get By”: I watched Tropic Thunder on an 8 hour flight back from the UK, and the only part of that movie I enjoyed was being caught off guard by Tom Cruise dancing to this song for no apparent reason.
Mos Def- “Fear Not of Man”: I didn’t realize the first 2 minutes of this song was just Mos Def talking, followed by 1 short verse and three choruses. It probably won’t get played again.
Jay-Z- “Brooklyn’s Finest (ft. Notorious B.I.G.)”: I would kill to see a live version of this song.
AZ- “Gimme Yours (ft. Nas)”: I heard that AZ puts out a new album every year, but this raises the question: who listens?
Atmosphere- “The Woman With the Tattooed Hands”: I have nothing interesting to say about this pick.
The Roots- “I Don’t Care”: Blu is apparently recording a track with these guys, which makes this man very happy.
Skyzoo- “A Day In the Life”: I really need to give him a close listen, because even after my last post bemoaned how little attention I’ve given him, I still feel like I’m sleeping on him.
Beastie Boys- “Pass the Mic”: Feel better Ira.
Kool G Rap- “Streets of New York”: I go back and forth on Kool G Rap. Hip hop heads love blowing him, but Wanted: Dead or Alive (his supposed classic) just has too many corny/dated flows. The potential is there, but I’m listening to wrong album I think.
Cam’ron- “Hey Ma (ft. Juelz Santana, Freeky Zeeky & Kay Slay)”: I’m going to try to start using the term ‘dome‘ much more frequently than I do.

Afroman- “Because I Got High”: I’d like the record to show that this track was directly preceded by a Narcanon PSA.

Afroman- “Because I Got High”: You see, I had a whole second half to my show planned out, but then I started getting requests from a nasally male calling himself Chris Burns. Being that I always honor the requests of my loyal listeners, I had, in effect, a great portion of my show hijacked.
Johnson & Jonson- “Half A Knot”: I did manage to get one song off before he could call again, and sensing something was amiss, I made sure to give my boy Blu some more airplay.
Snoop Dogg- “We Just Wanna Party With You”: Though he did request Afroman twice in a row, I thought it may have just been a simple childish prank, but when he again started calling, I realized that Chris was perhaps engaged in some behavior that neither I nor KTRM can endorse, but again, I always honor my requests, no matter how frequent or immature.
Cypress Hill- “Hits From the Bong”: When young Mr. Burns called to request this song, I could hear in the background a distinct bubbling sound, almost as if a child were blowing through a straw into their soda.
Wu-Tang Clan- “As High As Wu-Tang Get”: I believe Chris Burns may have become embarrassed, because this song was requested by a nasally voice donning a (clearly) faux-rasta accent. Look ‘mon’, I’m not stupid.
Canibus- “Get Retarded”: Although by this point I was quite annoyed with the young gentleman, in retrospect I must respect his dedication to such a stupid and pointless game. I mean certainly he could have just played these songs for himself, right?
Blackalicious- “Green Light: Now Begin”: Now this is a bit of a stretch, don’t you think?
The Pharcyde- “Pack the Pipe”: I asked Chris what the point of this whole experiment was, and do you know what he said to me? He said, “it’s Four Twenty, duuuuuuuuuude.”
Pacewon & Mr. Green- “Children Sing”: Again, he was clearly grabbing for whatever he could reach at this point.
Snoop Dogg- “Pass It Pass It”: I think our friend may have had a little too much fun last night, because while this was playing he called asking for two extra large supreme pizzas. However, he quickly recovered from this embarrassing mistake and barely had to think about what song he desired to hear next.
Memphis Bleek- “I Get High”: You know, even from just our short interactions, I really feel as though I got to know this faceless Chris Burns. While his prank was annoying and childish, I feel that overall he is a good person. He has some growing to do, but don’t be surprised to hear this name in the future.
Juvenile- “I Got that Fire”: I don’t think he had ever heard this song before, because from what I could tell it wasn’t what he thought it was going to be.
Parental Advisory- “Dope Stories (ft. Noreaga, Big Gipp & Pimp C)”: He clearly ran out of steam here towards the end, which is why I’m ashamed to say he had to resort to…
Cypress Hill- “Stoned is the Way of the Walk”: Two Cypress Hill songs in one show? This was the last straw. If he called back again I promised to myself that I would refuse to honor his request, and maybe even give him a short lecture while I was at it.
Asher Roth- “I Love College”: With five minutes left to go, the last call I answered was simply the voice on the other end of the line yelling “I LOVE COLLEGE” repeatedly into the receiver. I took this (for obvious reasons) to be a request to hear Asher Roth’s debut single. By the way, the dude’s album is out today, somebody tell me how it is.

Well, it wasn’t my best show, but learn from this listeners, because you too might be able to run the Hip-Hop Hour by proxy. Just please, no more Cypress Hill.