Maya Arulpragasam wants to say hi nasty style.

Time To Party Ghetto-Style
March. 15 2005

The latest jams on 'Your Ear Bone' are all about the beat and senseless lyrics. With M.I.A., a Sri Lankan via London throws down some silly raps over a nasty beat. It took a while for Europe to put out anything better in the ghetto-rap style, but M.I.A. does it nicely in her album Arula.

Beck is back, and this time he revisits his hip hop style, reminescent of his Midnite Vultures album. Although Guero doesn't quite have the full impact that his previous hip hop album, it is entertaining and certainly worth a listen. In Hell Yes, Beck is back to doing meaningless things like, "changing his plates," and "doin this thing." Nice.

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Past Jams:

3/15/05 M.I.A., "Bingo"
3/15/05 Beck, "Hell Yes"
3/15/05 Bloc Party, "Blue Light"
3/15/05 Gorillaz, "Dirty Harry"

2/22/05 Feist, "Inside and Out "
2/22/05 Mando Diao, "God Knows"
2/22/05 Andrew Bird, "A Nervous Tic Motion Of the Head to the Left"
2/22/05 Songs: Ohia, "Just Be Simple"

1/28/05 Kings of Leon, "The Bucket"
1/28/05 Bloc Party, "Tulips"
1/28/05 Camera Obscura, "Suspended From Class"
1/28/05 Cribs, "You Were Always the One"

8/01/04 A.C. Newman, "Miracle Drug"
8/01/04 Ambulance LTD., "Anecdote"
8/01/04 Lemon Jelly, "Soft"
8/01/04 Dave Matthews, "Oh"

4/05/04 Snow Patrol, "Spitting Games"
4/05/04 Modest Mouse, "Float On"
4/05/04 The Elected, "British Columbia"
4/05/04 Franz Ferdinand, "Come On Home"

2/04/04 Franz Ferdinand, "Darts of Pleasure"
2/04/04 Air, "Cherry Blossom Girl"
2/04/04 The Stills, "Lola Stars and Stripes"
2/04/04 Sun Kill Moon, "Carry Me Ohio"

12/01/03 Ryan Adams, "This Is It"
12/01/03 Teitur, "Sleep With the Lights On "
12/01/03 Enon, "Starcastic"
12/01/03 Johnny Cash, "Hung My Head"

10/15/03 Stars, "Elevator Love Letters"
10/15/03 The Postal Service, "We Will Become Silhouettes"
10/15/03 Mandalay and Portishead, "Insensible"
10/15/03 Quasi, "Drunken Tears"

9/01/03 Guided By Voices, "My Kind of Soldier"
9/01/03 Pharrell feat. Jay-Z, "Frontin'"
9/01/03 The Chemical Brothers and Flaming Lips, "Golden Path "
9/01/03 Underworld, "Trim"

7/01/03 The Long Winters, "Cinnamon"
7/01/03 The Postal Service, "District Sleeps Tonight"
7/01/03 The Dandy Warhols, "You Were the Last High"
7/01/03 The New Pornographers, "All for Swinging You Around"

4/22/03 Sondre Lerche, "Sleep On Needles"
4/22/03 Blur, "Sweet Song"
4/22/03 Broken Social Scene, "Stars and Sons"
4/22/03 Starlight Mints, "Submarine #3"

4/11/03 The Roots with Cody Chestnut, "The Seed"
4/11/03 Athlete, "You've Got the Style"
4/11/03 The Walkmen, "We've Been Had"
4/11/03 Arab Strap, "Here We Go"

-Plasma

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