While we would have been perfectly fine with Eve re-entering the game with something on par with her brilliant 2007 single “Tambourine” (from that never-released Here I Am project), the once-self-proclaimed “pitbull in the skirt” has curiously opted on bringing her lengthy hiatus to a close instead with “Me N My”, a dubstep (!!!) record jointly helmed by Salaam Remi and genre beat-crafter Benga (it swipes the backing track from the latter’s Diary of An Afro Warrior album cut “E Trips”) that never quite gels into the left-field mind-blower it seems to think it is.
To be fair, “Me N My”‘s faults don’t necessarily fall on it’s fierce beat (a juttering riddim that grabs hold of a creepy, “creatures stalking you in a dark alley-way” type of menacing club vibe), but Eve’s inability to bring much to it. Soullessly rapped musings about how her and her bitches get down at the hot nightspot might work for a hook, but when stretched over two verses and choruses that numbingly meld into one long lyric, her contribution completely bores, making us long for a cameo from Missy Elliott, MIA or Santigold to help color the production with their own respective weirdo-chant pizazz.
We’re all for American rappers trying to experiment with different styles (especially long-missed female ones), but when it sounds like your heart’s not really all that into it (both the track and re-entering the game), we say step aside and let an actually hungry emcee have the honors.
There’s something about the distant, sleepy-ish tone in twin sister R&B duo Nina Sky‘s harmonized vocals that, when attached to a danceable beat, creates the perfect summer jam. Yet despite a sustained presence in the mixtape circuit and various leaks from them over the years feeling like they have the potential to be the ideal follow-up to their irresistable breakout “Move Ya Body”, the girls have yet to release a proper follow-up album to their debut, an LP that dropped FIVE DAMN YEARS AGO!
What’s the deal? It’s understandable why a label would wait to unleash a full-length when the artist isn’t producing anything with a wide-enough appeal, but in the case of Nina Sky, these girls really should have been on their third or fourth near-or-at-Gold-selling disc by now.
Whatever. Trying to fathom the ways of a hopelessly lost music biz won’t get us anything but a headache, but what is completely understood right now is that Nina Sky once again have something catchy on their hands to satisfy listeners through the hot months with their latest gem, “On Some Bullshit”.
Supported by restless production that nods to 80′s freestyle with a slight tinge of Latin influence, the Salaam Remi-helmed “Bullshit” affirms itself as a fizzy delight almost instantly. Yeah, it’s half-baked lyrical plot about coming across a jerk of an old boyfriend bears little that’s arresting, aside from a few needless, albeit brow-raising, expletives (“Cause after all I thought you were a nice guy/ (Really you were a bitch)”), but the paired sound of the two ladies’ breezy melodies remains just as pleasant as they did when they mimicked Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam’s “Can You Feel The Beat” lines over that omnipresent Coolie Dance riddim way back in ’04.
From their forthcoming, yet (unsurprisingly) still dateless, sophomore collection, The Musical.
As nice as it is to get free music, think of how much better your soul would feel if you purchased it the old-fashioned way.
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While we would have been perfectly fine with Eve re-entering the game with something on par with her brilliant 2007 single “Tambourine” (from that never-released Here I Am project), the once-self-proclaimed “pitbull in the skirt” has curiously opted on bringing her lengthy hiatus to a close instead with “Me N My”, a dubstep (!!!) record jointly helmed by Salaam Remi and genre beat-crafter Benga (it swipes the backing track from the latter’s Diary of An Afro Warrior album cut “E Trips”) that never quite gels into the left-field mind-blower it seems to think it is.
There’s something about the distant, sleepy-ish tone in twin sister R&B duo
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