Nas feat. Busta Rhymes, Chiddy Bang

Some might listen to this song and laugh but make no mistake, "Fried Chicken" is not intended to make you chuckle. Like politics, girls, or weed, fried chicken is a valid issue in the black community that no rapper has dared tackle before. Nas does it beautifully; I mean this truly is a lyrical masterpiece. I can't decide which lyrics I enjoy the most. "Fried chicken/fly vixen/give me heart disease but need you in my kitchen" or "Drivin in your bucket seats all the way from Kentucky to fuck with me/look what you've done to me/was number one to me/after you shower you in your gold medal flour/than you rub your hot oil for about a half an hour" or "Don't know what part of you I love best/your legs or your breasts/Mrs. Fried Chicken, you gon be a ni**a death."

What's refreshingly original about the song is that Nas is tenderly rapping about fried chicken here when he claims "you gon be a ni**a death." He is not rapping about how the guns and street violence will be the eventual cause of his demise, no; he's talking about how the shit you eat is "burning with hot cholest." On the second verse, Busta tackles it differently. He handles fried chicken like an addiction to women or gambling; despite the fact that fried chicken is dangerous for him, he will eat it for the rest of his life. Busta uses delectable adjectives to describe how much he loves fried chicken using terms like "lemon juice" and "buttermilk." He ends the song by admitting that, just like living in the streets can harm you, "what I'm eating kills me. But I choose to do that. Why? Cause that's just what ni**a's do." Awesome.



Chiddy bang have outdone themselves again. Their knack to transform indie pop hits into sick rap songs is unfathomable. "Hey London" samples Hot Chip's "One Life Stand" but you wouldn't even notice it during your first listen. The song is the cheerful brand of electronic pop that Chiddy has been getting famous for. The song concerns Chiddy's reaction to the amount of attention they have been receiving from the public as of late. It's on the "Air Swell EP" where the duo has remixed their favourite British artists including, aside from Hot Chip, Kate Nash and La Roux. It's nice to know there are rap artists out there who listen to indie pop electronica except for Snoop Dogg, who will be on Robyn's upcoming "Body Talk Pt 2." "Hey London" is part of a new breed of fuzzy, non-gangsta hip hop; it's gentle, warm and delightful. Chiddy Bang's first proper LP comes out in September and I can only hope they will sample more Hot Chip.