On The New Hip Hop Disco

Add NYC's Pase Rock to the list of hip hop MC's who are smart enough to embrace electro and use it to re-vitalize hip hop in a huge way. It's not really a question of who did it first or best - that doesn't really matter - actually its not a question at all, it's a statement.

Hip Hop is back.

Pase Rock - sexy motherfucker feat. amanda blank [nate day remix] (mp3)



In main mainstream Kanye West did it with stronger, but i have a feeling that he just lucked out and was smart enough to listen to A-trak on the Daft Punk idea. Obviously the song blew up and he continued to let A-trak keep him cool and get him in touch with more young sceneters - Pro Nails anybody? - and as a result he beat fiddy real good.

I'd be a real asshole if i talked to you about Hip Hop electro crossovers without mentioning Philly bangers Spank Rock and Amanda Blank.

These kids are fucking great, the song Get loose from Spank Rock & Benny Blanco's Bangers and Cash is pretty much a full testament to all the gratuitous explicit sexuality, glorification of wanton drug use and chauvinistic behaviour that hip hop used to be infamous for.

I find their attitude so ridiculously over the top that no one should seriously be offended by this song/video. That being said; It's a fine line i wouldn't expect most to appreciate, especially in the face of lyrics like the eternal;

All that money make a Bitch go dumb
Coke on the tip make a Bitch go numb

The track is hot so just check it out.

Spank Rock & Benny Blanco - Get Loose feat Amanda Blank (mp3)


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Word on the streets - of the internet - is that both Amanda Blank and N.E.R.D. are working on albums which are slated to come out in the spring of this year; in the meantime here's a Spank Rock Remix of a Teki Latex - in town on the 23rd - song Disco Dance with You, featuring Amanda Blank. Also speaking of wanton drug use - N.E.R.D.'s everyone nose.

I've been in lines for a bathroom which consisted almost entirely of people going to do coke, so N.E.R.D. i feel you on that. I consider the song a testament to the guy who actually plans to use the bathroom to piss rather than a venue for drug use.

Teki Latex - Disco Dance With You [Spank Rock Remix feat. Amanda Blank] (mp3)





N.E.R.D. - Everyone Nose (mp3)