The Top 10 Jams of 2006

10. E40, Juelz Santana, Bun B, Pimp C--"White Gurl"
When I first heard this I slept on it. It just seemed so obvious: 40, juelz, and the texas boys dropping coke rap. But this isn't any coke song. It hit me when I was kickin it with white girl at the club. The DJ dropped it, I felt that boom bass kick, I started giggin out, the lights got brighter, everything made perfect fucking sense. And Pimp and Bun give good advice on how to successfully flip shit.

9. Beyonce--"Irreplaceable"

8. Rick Ross--"Hustlin"

7. E40 & Keak da Sneak--"Tell Me When To Go"

6. Ciara--"Promise" (remix)

5. T.I.--"What You Know"

4. Lil Wayne--"Spitter"
See listen here this is why Weezy is the best out there right now. In the first verse he starts out:

Whatcha man done toldya bout fuckin round wit them soldiers/
Toldya I'll be back I'm comin, I got that Tommy Lasorda/
That's blood all over your sofas, blood all over your posters, blood all over your shoulders, blood all over the strollers...

And then to begin the second verse, with the exact same cadence, he flips it to:

Whatcha baby toldya bout fuckin round wit them soldiers/
I toldya I'm comin back I got that Tommy Mattola/
That's blood all over ya Rover, blood all over ya chaffuer, blood all over ya loafers, if I get any closer, there's blood all over my toaster, blood all over my holster, I'm in them S.Dots, that's blood over my Hovas...

That's rap music, plain and simple. If you hear that and think, well, he's just basically repeating himself, then don't worry about it. Just go back to Doggystyle and the two Biggie songs you know and live happily. But don't ever ever ever say you love hip hop music.

3. Ho'okoa--"Last Night"
This is the way it works in Hawaii: Every year there's always a local jam that will epitomize a certain time, such as the end of senior year, and if your high school is worth its salt, you'll actually get that band to play that jam while you mack your senior year cutie under the stars.

This is that jam. The kid I know, his name's Kaika, was at a barbecue I went to the day after his grad party (it's also not weird for 23 year olds to kick it with 17 year olds at barbecues so fuck you). I'm always busting his chops because he shows me school pictures of the girls he's trying to get with and I'm like, cmon man, are you even getting head yet? Anyway, I asked him who performed at his grad night and he said "Ho'okoa."

Me: "They have that jam on the radio right now, right? The one that goes, 'Laaaaast night, laaassst night.' They musta killed that live, huh?"

Him: "Ho brah, you don't even wanna know...I never heard girls scream like dat.(gap toothed grin)"

Me: Please tell me you fucked.

Him: (continues gap toothed grin)

2. Young Jeezy--"Bury Me a G"

1. Nelly Furtado & Lil Wayne--"Maneater" (remix)
"my shorty know what she doin, lick her lips then get straight to it..."

There was no "Stay Fly" which stood head and shoulders above anything else. "What You Know" came close at the start of the year but in the end it just sounded empty, despite DJ Toomp's amazingly cinematic production. Bury Me a G comes pretty close and I'm definitely jamming it nonstop but I can't get over the fact that this is a 2Pac song with Jeezy's voice in it. So 2006 was the year of Wayne and it seems like 2007 will be the year of high profile beefs and the young guns taking the torch from Nas and Jay.

The Bay fucking shot itself in the foot, which is the disappointment of 06 but I can't say I'm surprised.

the drop, bitches

oh shit.


luda track with the he-man beat. if you don't cop this shit i'll put my foot so far up your ass the sweat on my knee'll quench your thirst.

ludacris - pre-release therapy

this shit is hot the way through.



also here is a mix i got earlier this summer that i forgot about til now. check out the mike jones and paul wall track it's dope. also clipse hosts it and wrecks it so get on this shit.

purple codeine 8: hosted by the clipse

oh shit

this is primarily for george.

the rest of you can cop whatever, it's all hot shit.



b.g. and the chopper city boys: on the grind

if you don't count the dedication 2 as having been dropped in the summer, this is hands down the best mix of the summer. pretty much every track wrecks your shit harder than dusty tinfoil (i think there's one track that i skip... and then the skits...).


juelz santana and lil wayne hosted by mick boogie: blow

until we get "i can't feel my face" this is all the actual juelz and weezy collabo shit, there are a couple old tracks, but it's still gold.


beanie sigel and the aphilliates: streetz is watching

this is straight ripped from some fool's radio show in philly, therefore there is a lot of annoying foghorn and shit thrown in there, but beans kills it on track 6, track 10 has the best beat using the theme from shaft i've ever heard and features jigga rapping like he hasn't since he dropped trooper jay, and track 11 makes you realize that three solid tracks are completely worth a mixtape. also hilarious part about beanie mac writing tracks while taking a syrup nap in the booth, and just waking up and spitting. baller.

i say got damn

i'm late to cop this one, but i just got the new prince album.

what this comes down to is a plea: someone please convince prince to make beats.

i'm really not sure how to explain myself, or even how it would be possible to make it work, but fuck dude, prince brings funk to the future. some of the album is soft and all prince trying to get laid by some girl or some guy or some girl/guy/dog/tree/wall/pillow/triceratops. but then there's the funk. and damn is it funky.

2 tracks

check it out

It's no problem, baby, I still got 'em...

...It's just a victory lap, y'all, I'm just joggin'/ And I ain't even out of breath/ The motherfucking best yet, sorry for cussin'...

2006 is the Year of the Bay. Catch up like the Phoenix Suns and get down with these collar poppin dandies:

18 Dummy-The Federation
These dudes are going 18 Dummy, that's getting stupid off 1800 Cuervo. This is one of the most aggressive Bay songs I've heard, the hook pounds it's way into your head like a drill, but I'm feeling it. It's like the Bay doesn't really give a fuck about anything except being as Bayish as possible. No compromises.

Vans-The Wolfpack
Too Short is helping these kids go to work. This song is less hyphy and more like the snap shit coming out of Atlanta. The first time I heard this, I thought it was a commercial. I like that Bay kids are appropriating Vans and Top Siders the way Asian kids made Nautica and Tommy Hill the shit in the mid 90s.

Go Ig'nant-The Team f/ e40
From now on when I upload rapidshare files I'ma attach careunit.blogspot.com to the file name so everyone knows where it comes from. This is some more Bay slap, 40water drops a sick verse and Droop-e (40's son) comes correct on the beat.

Swagger Music

Yee -- E-40 ft. Too Short and Budda

I don't know any people in the bay who say "Yee!" but then again, I don't know any true life thugs either. This song begins with a little lockstep military beat but gets overrun by a slide whistle and that 808 thump. I love when E-40 emerges in this song all slow and langurous like he's still high from the night before.

Head Popped Off -- T.I. ft. Jae Millz and Slim Thug

I listened to this song while waiting for my bags at the John Wayne Airport in tha OC and if any of these overfed, attention starved brats in khaki shorts and novelty Micky Mouse visors had touched me or any of my possessions I would've left their brains in their lap and let them think about that.

Fast Forward -- Jody Breeze ft. Freeway

Now see to yall, I'm a rap star
But in my heart, I'm a trap boi
If you want some hard, holla back boy
I can get you what you ask for
Bust a couple heads if your payin for it
Try me you'll be paying for it

I fuck with this all day long.

e'erybody's got the hiphop bases covered...

so, without much entrance:

beast of commodo

as much as jan garbarek is a cracked out sax player, i think arlid andersen and jon christensen lay the beat out flat on this track. don't get me wrong, i like what jan does in the beginning and end of the song, but the shit in the middle makes coltrane sound like he didn't do enough heron, and to top it off i didn't either.
(it's a 17 mb file so it's kind of big. especially if you have as slow of internet as george.)


lester leaps in

if you don't like count basie, then i don't like you.