| Show tr Vb Tri S t OJ 4 J. J l 11 t tJ l' l f t 1 e es S U t 0 p t 1 1 jL I v. v 0 0 r t I I. I l r t Y Thu u Speak your pie Buy or burn it From week to week Ill I'll be getting your take on new music releases from your favorite artists This week Ill I'll be speaking with no one Why you may ask Well let me metell metell tell you I guess people think that just because this is a community college newspaper we carry no weight I had hadan hadan hadan an interview scheduled with someone someone someone some some- one but they snaked me and Ill I'll have to do all the reviews for this week by myself The point of light for today people is is Dont think youre you're a and try to play people or you might find out how shots feel H. H Grant GrantWith With that said I guess now we J I k f can continue on 1 Bif N Naked ked I 1 Lava Atlantic antic 1999 s Finally I think our kid J brother from up north is starting to toL pull his own weight From Canada L t with love I give you Bif Sif Naked Never heard of her eh You didn't even know it was a girl Well dont don't stress yourself out just yet she's not nol exactly a household name in Canada either I is the second release from Miss Bif Sif Naked on her Lava Atlantic recording label The relatively unknown export from Winnipeg Manitoba is getting a lot lotof lotof lotof of attention for her sophomore release The album is laced with strong seductive pop hooks and blended with pure old school punk Birs uncanny lyrics and awesome stage presence has gotten her on tour with the likes of The Lilith fair the Cult and Kid Rock Bif from what I gather by her songs songs' on this album gives a lot of herself The emotionally emotional emotional- ly charged lyricism on tracks such asI as asI asI I died The Peacock Song and Moment of Weakness find Bif Sif dealing with lifes life's trials past relationships relationships relationships rela rela- religion and of course girl boy-girl betrayal If appearances alone guided guided guid guid- ed our actions of impulse spending f I you would not buy this album Bif is cute I guess She has a gothic thing going on a sort of Sabrina the b bad d witch thing I suppose under all the black eye liner and such she's real good looking Interview magazine described her as having Cleopatra beauty Alas good looks cant can't carry an album alone and Bif does fall short on a couple of occasions like the sappy Daddys getting married and the loud Spaceman but over all allI I think this is an album that you should have before the Bif crazy jumps off Having received glowing glowing- rev reviews from the likes of USA Today Billboard Elle Request Magazine Magazine Magazine Mag Mag- azine and the NY Post I 1 expect that you'll be hearing a lot about Bif Sif Naked Hassan's pick Buy this album eh Tr Deep Murder Music Loud Records 1999 I Yo You had fun in 1998 right You know with Puff Daddy and Will Smith dancing their gigs showing their teeth and ice collectively for the cameras You thought it was over but along came Ricky Martin So to ride the wagon you took salsa lessons recycled your grade Spanish and hopped on the dance floor Olay 0 lay Olay Olay right Well this is 1999 and the up- up jump your boogie is over Welcome to the side of things and the return of the Those thugs from Queens- Queens bridge are back and their music is not for you Cristal popping ice rocking lady romancing way half-way thugs Murder music is a lesson in hard hardcore core hip hop For those not privy to it hardcore is not gangster rap for which it has been popularized but to put it into the words of Deeps Deep's Prodigy This is hip hop for Eye for an Eye and Drink away the Pain A After fier the low key cuts of Hell on Earth I know the thugs have ave been anticipating an album with the force of the infamous infamous infamous anthems The has not disappointed us at all on this release Havoc and prodigy continue to enlighten us with the Dun language of I cant can't say enough of the weight of this album in a time that most artists try so hard to go platinum that they lose themselves in inthe inthe inthe the process the stays true to the art The gems of this album are so many in number that it is hard to find finda a misstep or a double clutch on this album Every time the shoots they score I haven't really been up on my music like I should be I need a ajob ajob ajob job but to my surprise this is one of the hottest albums to hit the stores this year The is what's right 1 real something some some- with nip hip hop nop m in thing you can 1999 and on a feel philosophic note Deep is is for they even offer eve everyone r yon e poetry for all The Infamous y mankind You Vou x stay Y y ay-y r should make Love true to form 1 not War If you with hits like f do nothing else Thug Life is isMine this year to proM proM promote pro pro- M Mine i n e mote your diversity diversi diversi- Q Qui u i e t b ty at least try different dif dif- Storm The 2 ferent forms of Infamous music and with and Street Life This album is a albums from Deep and Bif i oj banger The production on these cuts Naked you cant can't go wrong remind you of the classics Give up the Goods Shook Ones Part II f sans san's Hassan's Picks Picks' Tracks Albums m w win in heavy rotation rot tion in my 84 Subaru Deep Murder Music Limp Significant Other The ni nia nia John Coltrane These are a few of my favorite things Groove Theory Groove Theory Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 1 Nas I am 01 Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers Dirty Version g |
