The Daily Dose: “The Remix”

There was a time in my life, when my favourite remix on earth was Talib Kweli’s “Get By”. You know the one, featuring Mos Def, Jay-Z, Kanye West & Busta Rhymes. In fact I’ve mentioned before. The verses were straight heaters. Everybody on that track elevated and accentuated that track with their own flair and brilliance. I didn’t grow up a hip-hop head, I grew up a Jay-Z stan. Quite literally from 1996, up until my college years where my housemates from Botswana fed me all sorts of beautiful music…..up until then….it was pretty much all Jay, all Day.

Then Kanye came on the scene, and I had two hip-hop heroes, I also partly blame “The College Dropout” for my reason 3 years later to just give my degree the finger and follow my heart.

Fast forward to Friday 20th August 2010…

I woke up at about 9am. Thats three hours ago. My facebook inbox was inundated with links to download the “POWER” remix. I gave myself time to calm down and get it together. After all I’d only been waiting a week for this. Last time Kanye dropped a remix with Hov that had me in full spazz mode…it was “Diamonds Are Forever” and neither of them disappointed.

DOWNLOAD: POWER ft. Jay-Z

So I downloaded, what I believe to by my birthright as far as hip-hop is concerned…

And I listened…..and I listened….and I listened….its currently sitting at 37 plays in my itunes.

Life is good. I’ve set it before, if music is the number one performance enhancement drug for life well then this song is pure unfiltered and untainted horse steroids !!

Thank you Mr. West & Thank you Mr. Carter . . .WOW !!!

And now that I’ve enjoyed this heater all morning, alone and in the comfort of my humble abode…its time to go chop it up with my tweetfam.