Long update...

List seven of your favorite songs of the moment in your journal and force seven other people to repeat this process.

1) 3 6 Mafia - I Got to Stay High (it's 3 6... if you don't like them you're dumb)
2) Bone Thugs N Harmony - Shots 2 Da Double Glock (hard hitter from a raw album)
3) David Banner - Play (makes The Whisper Song sound like Barney)
4) Dr. Dre - Keep Their Heads Ringin' (classic from Friday)
5) Common feat. Kanye & John Legend - They Say (piano sample is terrific)
6) G Unit - I Wanna Get to Know You (one of the best samples I've ever heard)
7) Maceo - Nextel Chirp

Runners Up:
Mike Jones/Swishahouse - Still Tippin'
Lil' Webbie feat. Magic & Lil' Boosie - Girl Gimme That Pu$$y
Lil' Webbie feat. Trina - Badd B!tch
TI - Let's Get Away
Warren G - I Shot the Sheriff (EPMD Remix)

I'm gonna flip the script, however, and name my seven favorite songs to hate right now... because I know Mark would get a kick out of it. So Mark, you're the only one I'm asking to respond with your seven. Here goes (with explanation):

1) The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha (what the fuck are you talking about? If my girlfriend were hot, I wouldn't be at the club trying to holla now would I? No. A real man admits that when he lies to his girlfriend to go to the club, he's someone that does not find his girlfriend very attractive. I have not done this to date, but I'm keepin it real here.)

2) Gwen Stefani - Holla Back Gurl (I love to hate it because song or not, I'd still do her until she holla'ed back. Then I'd call her a hypocrite and slap her tit off.)

3) Anything from the new Missy Elliot (I'll contribute this to Scott Gaught because he and Sir Hamann of Down-The-Hall play it a lot. However, as much as I tell them the album is cool, I'd be OK with never hearing it again. Her "Music makes me lose control" of my bowels. Shit on that, Scott.)

4) Nina Skye - Move Your Body - If Elephant Man has taught us anything, it's that unless Lil' Jon (the crunk equivalent of Swizz Beats and Kanye West) is on your track, your preemptive reggaeton dance tracks will be annoying as hell, carry the same fuckin bongos on the drums without changing the tonation of the patches, and contain some meaningless lyrics that no one will like. "But, it's danceable!" So is holding in urine when you really have to go... that doesn't make it a good song. In fact, let's just lump in every track that uses those cliche, fake-ass reggaeton wannabe bongo drums, because they all suck for not having any originality or credibility.)

5) Mike Jones/Swishahouse - Still Tippin'/Back Then (Mike Jones sucks. I love Tippin', but I mean dude sucks at rapping. Plus, he gives his cell number out in Back Then, and never picks up. How are we supposed to holla at Mike Jones for a record deal when dude doesn't pick up his phone? Mike Jones, eatadiccup.)

6) Ludacris - Pimpin All Over the World (Wow. You've been here and there, you're a pimp now risking AIDS with all those African women you find gorgeous. Good for you. Plus you can't donate blood. Anyway, what a fuckin album filler this is, and yet people buy into it by it being on the radio. You charlatan hip-hop "fans," listening to your Lil' Jon, Bobby Valentino, and Bow Wow... don't you dare tell me Ludacris did well in this song. This song is not original, and the beat is really, REALLY annoying. In fact, Luda's entire new album is way overrated. This song is just another way to promote Bobby Valentino, who has some decent talent... for a guy who can sing over 12 songs that sound exactly the same. Way to go, clowns.)

AND FINALLY...

7) 2 way tie: Young Jeezy - And Then What; Gucci Mane - So Icey (Do I really need to explain these two? Here's a tidbit):

Young Jeezy - "Paddycake, paddycake, MICROWAVE..." E n o u g h said about Young Jeezy. And fuck you, The Scout staff, for believing that Steve Mizek thinks his album was good, because it was terrible. Every song sucked, you all know it, we all know it, Young Jeezy knows it, rap knows it, America knows it, NASCAR knows it, George W. knows it, and the world knows it as they laugh at us for listening to such dumb shit. Quit killing American music (now American culture, as everyone and their MOTHER is about hip-hop now). Does Young Jeezy have anything substantial to rap about? Anyone? Bueller?

Gucci Mane - He calls himself a snowman because he's just so icy. Let's not forget that the word is misspelled in the song title. I-c-e-y. Get this guy a second grade education, not a platinum record. (If he's platinum, I quit on hip-hop forever). And let's not forget that he calls himself a FUCKING SNOWMAN. FROSTY THE ICY SNOWMAN. One thing's for sure, if black people are poor and they buy all kinds of jewelery too look rich, white people used to call these people dandies. I have long since called them "poor," because no money means no money, dummy. However, America dons the idea of him being So Icey, because his song says he's a snowman. No, dumb. If you're icy, you'd be Jack Frost, because he creates frost and ice. Frosty is made of snow and carrots and coal and shit. Snow melts faster than ice anyway. Jeezy is a young idiot and needs to go to the second grade. Congratulations, you may graduate in 2019 if you're lucky!

Sorry, but this music has been swirling around my skull for weeks. And some of them despite my hate made it into the Club Xi playlist. But as a DJ, my role cannot be biased, in that if people want to hear stupid shit, I should play it so they will dance and not hate me. That is a good thing... liking the DJ and music and stuff.


Werd, I'm done.
--Dave