mixtape maestro (2.0)

Leave it to Deep Dish halve Sharam Tayebi, the man who made Eddie Murphy-as-singer cool again with his club-tastic 2006 re-imagining of the comedian’s 80′s hit “Party All The Time”, to emerge triumphant in doing something as bonkers as melding classic country, dub and hip hop 2.0.

On “She Came Along” (from his new Get Wild LP), Sharam starts off by throwing some restless beat tinkerings under the somber C&W sway of Patsy Cline’s “Strange”, creating a surprisingly addictive mashing of genres that would have ultimately been fine on it’s own. Alas, we’re in for even more of a treat, as he then goes and busts the record’s appeal out of the stratosphere by stripping in current sensation Kid Cudi.

Cudi co-signs Cline’s teary-eyed whimperings (“Strange, how you stopped loving me/ How you stopped needing me/ When she came along…”), cleverly using it’s lyrics to support his own “my chick left me for another chick” rhyme. But rather than dish out a predictable dose of shock and heartache in response to the situation, Cudi instead wonders aloud why the three of them can’t find a way to work things out so he can live out the ultimate male fantasy.

The images of their potentially steamy “love triangle” sex sessions clouding up his brain, he pleas for her to stay by his side, promising “I could live life fine with two ladies” before later urging them, in that entrancing sing-rap vocal of his, to both take his hand so he can make them “feel okay”.

Sigh. There’s just too much here to love.

Get Wild, also featuring appearances from Tommy Lee, Diddy and Daniel Bedingfield, is available April 7th. Pre-order it here.

DL: “She Came Along” (alt)