New Idle Warship
After quitting Myspace and Facebook a year ago, I just joined Twitter and it’s already ruined my life. I managed to piss off Jean Grae in a matter of hours, so I don’t know how long my tweets will last. Anyway, thanks to my friends at Kevin Knottingam (and Year of the Blacksmith of course…) for this:
Idle Warship- Girls on the Dance Floor
This isn’t my favorite IW song, but it’s pretty good and makes me want to see them live again asap. My favorite is this freestyle over Common’s Neptunes-produced “Universal Mind Control”, because I love these Graph Nobel lyrics:
Get your coffins out, you’re goin in em
Been diggin these graves with a shovel and a grin
Shooting stars, draggin bodies in
Blood, sweat and dirt under my nails again
Runs in the fishnets, scuffs on my shoes
Killin the competition that’s all I’ve been doin
This little lady got murder in her purse
Swag {?}you can hear how I’m killing each verse
Idle Warship- Universal Mind Control freestyle
Unrelated- I’ve been wanting to report on my recent concert experiences but had no time so I’m gonna quickly summarize. Cassandra Wilson brushed her shoulder off like Jay Z during the song “St James Infirmary” while she sang the line he’ll never find another woman like me; Diane Reeves got a standing ovation in the middle of her set at Lincoln Center when she sang “Misty” and we all melted; K’NAAN did his serious thing at Steve Madden to a crowd that probably just cared about shoes (excluding a few obvious fans). And I missed the Sharon Jones show I was so psyched about, thanks to a(nother) killer migraine, but fuck whoever stole Daptone’s stuff.
Love that really old-style clip!