Goes to prove all you need to get some radio play is a Jay-Z verse on the end of your song. Consider this, Rehab was a great song before S.Carter got his hands on it. But what readio station in the States was playing it? Now you can't escape it.
And since Winehouse is already a regular on the blog scene, I'm going to talk about Hovie's verse. At first I was disappointed. Jay has found himself a formula from starting the verse by yelling young to saying that every time he tries to leave they pull him right back. I knew that with a swag like Jay's he would never admit lyrically to being an addict so he'd obviously have to be addicted to being fresh which is what he said. But when it comes down to it, it's still an awesome verse. He goes for a few throats, makes a few good metaphors, and at the end has a killer flow which is an aspect of Jay-Z that he recently has forgotten. Kingdom Come, Iceberg Slim's last release, was his weakest catalog of flows. The man who once claimed to change his style "every two lines" on his release was now rapping into his ready made formula. But this verse is tight as all hell and more importantly it's got Amy Winehouse all over the radio.
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The rap verse cliché reminds me of Ace of Base.
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