winter sadness
For the most part, Winter can kiss my ass. The only benefit of the cold season is you get to wear some cool shit you can’t wear in the warmer months, and there is better sports on TV. Apart from that, Winter is trash. It’s not uncommon for your spirits to take a dip around this time also, not neccesarily saying you get depressed, but there’s generally a marked difference from the carefree attitude of Summer. You start evaluating how your year’s been thus far, thinking about where you are and where you want to be in life etc. As a musician I’ve noticed all the serious stuff I’ve ever written has been during this period, it’s a reflective time and you’ll often find yourself listening to more reflective and sombre music to accompany it.
The other day when I was over at Che’s, they were playing a CD of original songs sampled by 2pac throughout his career. I knew a majority of them, but this one right here caught me off guard. “Picture me rollin” is my absolute favourite Pac song, not his best lyrically or anything like that.. just as an overall piece of music, to me - the best. A week doesn’t go by without me playing it. The beat is top 5 of all time IMO, but I had always assumed it was an original composition. So I felt rather uninformed to find out not only is it an interpolation, but an interpolation of a song by Kool and the Gang no less. I need to step my game up. Anyways, if you’re in the need of some mood music for these months indoors… it don’t get no better than this baby. No ma really. Give the bassist some.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Might wanna fix that link… HOV!
May 12th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Fixed. Dam, quick on the trigger round here LOL
May 12th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Word to winter… the only good thing about this season is that they start stocking mandarins in the supermarket…
Classic song too…
May 12th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
who DIDN’T know it was a kool & the gang interpolation?
guess thats what happens when you grow up listening to Pantera, then turn to rap in your teens cuz all the cool kids at school are doing it
May 12th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
cosign the mandarins.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
LOL @ the picture
May 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
fuck i didnt know it was a cool and the gang, just assumed it was original aswell lol, dope ima go bump that now
I got ki’s, comin from overseas
Cost a nigga two hundred G’s
I’m a street comando, Nino for example
This lavish lifestyle is hard to handle
haha big syke the mantis
May 12th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Aye, I played this at the New North Palace heaps. Must have been drunken times.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
@ TBP.. why you asking who “DIDN’T”. I just told you. I didn’t.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
oooh… it’s the old “your not hip hop if you didn’t listen to it at primary school” argument…. who, aside from TBP, honestly gives a fuck?
May 12th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
winter fashion rules dunny - i keeps it most real
May 12th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
IMO that song is pretty far from hip-hop, its more like Jazz.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:40 am
yea whateva! laugh it up
At least I aint a homo like David Dallas
excluding scribe dirty’s just a bunch of nerds that got picked on at school
oh yeah PNC stop fronting like your hard
How many hidings have you got since you’ve been in Auckland?
ROFLMAOOO
May 13th, 2008 at 2:08 am
true, true @ E
May 13th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
LOL, are you mad TBP ?
May 13th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Lol…TBP…find another blog bay.
While we’re chucking fruit out there, fejoas in the winter is tops too.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Shit theres a new hater on here.
no need for largesmoke any more.
LS