Tuesday, June 01, 2004

The Only No Limit Song that Fr8train Likes:
Fiend "Big Tymer"

Lets get this straight, I do not understand why people buy No Limit shit! Three brothers and one of their kids who can't rap themselves out of a wet paperbag, production and beats that sound like a baseball thrown at a drum machine (Beats By the Pound was their beat-layers, what a fitting name!), cheesey Pen & Pixel computer-created album covers with gay-ass blinging jewels all over, commercials in the inlets and even on skits in the CDs, No Limit Records was pure shit! Fingernails on the chalkboard ain't shit compared to Master P (from now on referred to as Master B8) groaning "Ugggggggghhhhhh!". I feel sorry for poor Snoop Dogg having to hop on this grenade to get off Death Row.

Enough with the No Limit bashing, there is one No Limit song that bucks the downward spiral trend that is No Limit. That song is "Big Tymer" by Fiend and Mia X off Fiend's album "There's One in Every Family". What I originally thought would be a cheap Cash Money rip truely surprised me. From the catchy hook to the cool organ and xylophone music in the background, this song truely pumps Fr8 up!

The lyrics, although not Hamlet, are quite witty and catchy for a No Limit song. From The Beverly Hillbillies reference in "I'm stackin ends like the Clampetts" to Mia X telling us big tymers to "put your knot in the air", it is a step ahead of No Limits typical trash. Although Fiends reference of "Take the diamonds out my Rolly, your house have no light" is not as catchy as Lil Wayne's image of "so much ice you could skate on a nigga" in "Bling Bling", it was truely a valiant attempt. Clocking in at just a few seconds over 3 minutes, it is brief. Thank God, there is no Miller brothers on the song one bit and no fucking "Ugggggggghhhh" to fuck the song up either. Truely the only diamond in a mile-high pile of NL shit!

Monday, May 31, 2004

Quick bit:

I never knew Montell Jordan's "This is How We Do It" ripped off Slick Rick's "Children's Story"!

VS.

I heard Slick Rick's "Children's Story" for the first time and was amazed to find that it has the exact same beat as Montell Jordan's "This is How We Do It" with a similar rap style throughout it. To think a song I've liked for 9 years completely ripped-off a song makes me sad...I would have expected this from Will Smith, but Montell Jordan? You bitch!

One Hit Wonders:

Jesse Jaymes: 1992:
"College Girls"
= the song that everyone thinks is Eazy-E!

"Anywhere I go a fly girl will please me, East to West college girls are easy..."

The War "Lowrider" beat with tales of promiscuous dorm women make this a college party staple today.

First things first, this song is NOT sung by Eazy-E or NWA, it is performed by an obscure white rapper named Jesse Jaymes who looks like Lief Garrett on crack (wait...Leif is probably already on crack). It is from his 1992 Delicious Vinyl (same label as Tone-Loc) album "Thirty Footer in Your Face".

I'm in my late 20's and never heard of the song until filesharing came around in the late 90s. I like to believe the one person who had this CD did not have the case for it and when they ripped it they made the assinine assumption that is was Eazy-E. From there it was shared on Napster where college kids downloaded it thinking it was an unreleased Eazy-E song and the domino effect kicked in.

I can picture poor Jesse Jaymes today, in his early thirties walking past the frat house after his shift of washing cars at Wonder Wash, cussing out the frat boys, "Where were you in 1992 fuckwads, 10 years later and your finally spinning my shit!" Frat boy says "You ain't no Eazy, go wash my car honkie-bitch!"

All you D.J.'s out there, Fr8train would like to make a request for you to spin this song tonight for poor Jesse and make sure you say it is by Jesse Jaymes, they'll want to know when the West Coast Choppers guy rapped but it will still be better than them thinking it was Eazy-E!

Lyrics to Jesse Jaymes "College Girls"