Jerk mix

Here's a live, 2-hour mix of jerk songs I did for 2 Busy Saying Yeah last week:

2 Busy Saying Yeah Episode 5 - Jerk Special

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These are the songs I featured:

1. Cold Flamez: Miss Me, Kiss Me
2. Jaye Cooley: Drippin Wet
3. YT: Call Me Daddy feat. New Era & TayF3rd
4. Dizzy: Swagg It Out
5. YG: AIM Me
6. Looney Toonz: Cock A Doodle Doo
7. Swagg City: That Hoe Crazy
8. Asia Lynn: Bad Bitch
9. Vixen Ent: Toot My Shit
10. Clothes Off Movement: Better Than You
11. J.R.: Inhale It feat. TayF3rd & Ashlii
12. NHT Boyz: Introduction
13. Dinoo Supreemo: Dirty Ass Vans
14. Rude Boyz: Go Hard
15. Go Go Power Rangers: Tippin on My Dick
16. New Boyz: You're a Jerk
17. Rude Boyz: Tight Jeanz
18. Fresh Boyz: I Rock Skinnies feat. New Era
19. YT: Skinny Ass Nigga
20. Pink Dollaz: I'm Tasty
21. Camille Tianna: Hot Commodity
22. TayF3rd: Heard About Me feat. Project & New Era
23. Turfeazy: In a Tree
24. Vixen Ent: Bust Me a Nut
25. The Lowz: She Poppin' feat. Nie'Starr
26. Julian: Jerkin Song
27. L7: Knock Knock
28. YB: 2 Step
29. Ro2co: Toot It Up Done
30. Dinoo Supreemo: Step To
31. Aeiress Ent: Billy
32. Wes Nyle: Dougie
33. Nokio: Hi I'm a Jerk feat. YT
34. YB: I'm a Jerk
35. Jayy Starr: Where the Functions
36. New Boyz: Cricketz feat. Tyga
37. YG: I'm Still Poppin
38. Young Sam: I Do My Thang feat. Asia Lynn
39. Payso: Beat That Pussy feat. Cold Flamez
40. New Era: Dumb Bitch
41. Draft Pick: Get It Jerkin
42. Julian: Do It Don't Stop
43. The Bangz: Get It Girl feat. Pink Dollaz
44. Asia Lynn: Tip Toe feat. Aaliyah D
45. Fly Guys: We Jerkin
46. Ro2co: Shooting Dice
47. TayF3rd: Conceited

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In the last jerk-related post, I referred to this Bay goofball classic:



Mac Mill: "Arabian Hump" (In-A-Minute, 1995)

Mac Mill was a Berkeley/Oakland rapper who put out a couple of singles and one EP, 1995's One Mill-Yon. When "Arabian Hump" came out I have a distinct recollection of a local TV news story about the controversy the song was generating and Mill offering some hilariously unconvincing rationalization about building cross-cultural understanding through imitating the speech of dudes who ran the liquor stores where he shopped. I"m pretty sure he knew "sand ni**er" was a slur, though.

Grinches, Oompa Loompas and WTF

Spotted over at Cocaine Blunts:


Rafael Casal: "Bay Area Slang" (2009)

If 40's long-promised slang dictionary doesn't actually come out this year, a guest verse on a remix of this would be some consolation.

The Grinch theme reminds me of:


Da Backwudz: "I Don't Like the Look of It (Oompa)" (Rowdy, 2006)

and


Big Moe: "Purple Stuff" (Wreckshop, 2001)

Don't be a dangler

I'm not sure what's best about Too $hort's "I Ain't Trippin'"-- the insidious bassline, the way $hort pretty much mumbles/whispers all of the lyrics or Mark Curry's adlibs. Probably the adlibs, which perfectly capture the feel of Oakland at the time.

A few years later, Berkeley rapper Mac Mill came out with another single featuring a pre-"Hangin with Mr. Cooper" Curry riffing on street life and, in particular, danglers.


Mac Mill: "Straight Dangler" (No Question, 1990)

Danglers are still with us, but sadly, the word "dangler" has pretty much passed from the lexicon, although E-40 did drag it out of the mothballs for the Federation's "Hyphy" in 2003. Hopefully he'll include it in the slang dictionary he's been promising to publish since about that time.

As for Mill, I don't think he has put out anything since like 1995, when he released the EP with "Arabian Hump" on it. [I have a vague recollection of that song making the local news and Mac Mill explaining that he was shocked, shocked I tell you, at the controversy, because he was just imitating dudes who owned the local liquor stores-- anybody else remember that?] A couple years ago, I was surprised to read that my man Lyrics Born was in a crew with Mill in the dangler era, but when I asked Tom about Mill, but he said they lost touch years ago.