Loopalot week 41

 This week’s loopalot is a track which after some research on it reveals itsself to be pretty old. I’ve discovered it while listening to the latest album of The Alchemist I was able to procure myself.

The album is named The Alchemist – Cutting Room Floor 2 and basically is made of quite some scraps of Alchemist’s wide array of tracks which lay around his studio (or at least that’s my best guess). The full album is quite an interesting listen, especially if you compare it to his 1st Infrantry album which was the first “full” album I ever heard from Alchemist (and really appreciated).

The track that struck me the most off the track is one that was produced by The Alchemist for Bobby Creekwater. The title is Fucking Up My Cool.

Now overall, I wouldn’t define this as a club banger or a track that would struck many audiences on a frist listen. What appealed to me was the general message that the chorus brings.

“(I) keep diamonds to a minimum ’cause it’s fucking up my cool”

In a gendra that has everybody and their grandma running to their local jeweler with the very first paycheck or advance they get to get their necessary bling in order to get along with the bandwagonners and have enough street cred, it struck me to hear an artist who’s struggling to get his album ready hear something like this, a pretty loud, clear and cool statement to my liking!

~ by vashe on October 11, 2008.