http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2006/12/20/pushamalice_vs_pharrell_balls/ Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:37:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2006/12/20/pushamalice_vs_pharrell_balls/#comment-1346 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:00:28 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2006/12/20/pushamalice_vs_pharrell_balls/#comment-1346 Been a while since you’ve driven around in a car, hasn’t it?

]]> http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2006/12/20/pushamalice_vs_pharrell_balls/#comment-1345 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:40:48 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/cowboyz/2006/12/20/pushamalice_vs_pharrell_balls/#comment-1345 My immediate perception of the production on the record was that of stark minimalism. Compared to the busyness of other mainstream producers, like Timbaland or Just Blaze (there’s almost too much stuff to wrap my little brain around on that new Jay-z), the presentation is refreshing. I’m almost always more interested in the sound, feeling, and arrangement of hip-hop – be it the production, the rapping, or a combination of the two – than I am about the lyrics. If I can’t feel it in the first listen, I’m probably not going to give it 20 more chances. I couldn’t rap half a verse of any hip-hop song I’ve ever heard – the genre just doesn’t get me that way.
“Hell Hath…” is definitely rump-shakin music, don’t get me wrong, but I find myself paying closer attention when all I can hang my coat on is a drum beat and a monophonic guitar line or raspy accordian vamp. There’s a true art to compelling simplicity.

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