And I thought you weren’t listening. But insecurity issues aside, it’s nearly the school year’s end. This means different things to different people. Some think it’s time to buckle down, while others see the lack of scheduled classes as an opportunity to aleve themselves of all the pesky knowledge they’ve gathered in the previous months. That’s right friends, its time for songs about DRUGS.

Ghostface Killah - "Kilo"

On the glamorizing side, we have the new single from Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah. While others from the rap super group have had it bad, (ODB’s stomach punctures a concealed condom of coke and he croaks), or worse (Method Man proclaiming how ill the new Right Guard Extreme Sport Power Stripe deodorant is), Ghostface continues to drop the hotness Eskimos long for. 70’s soundtrack horns and razor on mirror effects, its nice.
Enjoy, and keep a low profile, you never know who will narc next.
http://www.stanford.edu/~joshsc/03%20Kilo.mp3

Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Snow (Hey Oh)"

To juxtapose we have Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot Pepper boys crooning over a dagger point guitar riff: “[Guitarist John] Frusciante came away from his near-fatal heroin addiction with new musical superpowers” (rolling stone).
Laying down a sobering account of yayo abuse over an instrumental that would probably be quite enjoyable to listen to while off one’s face is an interesting match. The rest of the group’s bloated double-album Stadium Arcadium (ugh… who chose that rank name) is pretty mediocre, but this tracks deserves credit as an update for “Under the Bridge”.
http://www.stanford.edu/~joshsc/1-02%20Snow%20(Hey%20Oh).m4a

Any opinions on these?: “No that album is a perfect retrospective of the Chili Peppers’ career” (FALSE) or “Too close to mainstream rap, I thought you were indie” (good, bring the hate. hate hate hate. Let me know, that’s what the comment button is for. Though it’s also good for telling me to keep my day job in non-music non-criticism.