I hope we don’t see no Moby Dick…
August 8th, 2008Overheard in the elevator this morning:
WOMAN: So how was it last night?
MAN: It was fun…I think…
WOMAN: Oh, you black out in the cab ride home again?
MAN: No…I don’t think I did…
I should note that the building I work in has MTV on 3 floors, so there’s lots of young party-types in the building…contrasting with the tax accountants on another 2 floors…
On my ride in to work I was listening to some tracks off The World According to RZA, a record that didn’t get a US release. It’s RZA going around the world and highlighting a bunch of foreign rappers and hip-hop types…it’s a bit hit-or-miss, but it’s pretty fun, and you really get a sense that these foreign MCs are really giving it their all because they know it’ll have RZA’s name on it. JG and I came across it while doing research for our all-things-RZA talkinwu project.
Here are two tracks from World According to RZA…in the first one, there’s this great intro bit out on the water (the sfx are fantastic) and RZA talks about how he’s against killing whales because he "heard they was here before us, you know?" The second track starts with a typically mighty Ghostface verse before moving on to a RZA verse (I love how he says "cranberry") and then some French(?) rap that is so smooth of flow…I wonder what they’re saying…
[audio:RZA_north_sea.mp3] [audio:RZA_saian.mp3]