MP3 Monday: Gangsta!
By Morgan Short, May 18th, 2009 | In Nightlife
MP3 Monday is a weekly SmartShanghai column, serving up mp3s from bands living and making music in China (or coming to China, or thinking about coming to China, or whatever). Right click on the links and choose "Save Link As..." to download 'em. Click play to rock 'em.
For this week's MP3s, I'm embracing my roots as a white guy from the suburbs and am featuring the music of my heritage: gangsta rap.
These MP3s are topical because they're both from the Ratatat Remixes Vol. 2 album, released in 2007, and the group is playing this Thursday at the Zhijiang Dream Factory. Ratatat, as I'm sure you know by now (or at least you've committed yourself not to care) are an electro duo from New York, and they're concert in Shanghai is, judging from the fact that SmartTicket has sold out of it's pre-sale tickets, a highly anticipated event.
In the parlance of our times, "it gon' go off. Your shit gon' be all fucked up."
If you haven't managed to get tickets yet, don't worry because they'll be lots at the door. Perhaps it's wise to show up on time though. Although no act or concert has ever sold out the Dream Factory, this one is looking like it might be close.
Anyways, I've been wanting to get the music of Slim Thug on here for a while now because he's just so goddamn G. It's like he's almost too G, if such a thing weren't impossible.
Be warned: it¡¯s duuurrrty.
Slim Thug, T.I. & Bun B. - Three Kings (Ratatat Remix)
The next one not only features Beanie Siegel and Jay-to-the-motherflippin-Z, but it also takes my favorite firearm as inspiration: the glock nine.
Booka!
Beanie Sigel & Jay-Z - Glock Nines (Ratatat Remix)
I highly recommend you download both these tracks and play them at unsafe, window-rattling volume in fervid anticipation of the concert on Thursday.
Click on this link to be redirected to Ratatat's MySpace page. Event information is listed here.
Also don't forget that Ugly Duckling plays The Shelter the next night. To the hip to the hop, you don't stop.
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