This is more or less all I’ve been listening to for the last few weeks. I only have a few things to say about it.
1) Cee-Lo’s verses are pretty much what I take people to be talking about when they talk about flow. There’s also the fact that you can literally hear that he’s smiling as he raps. Also this song articulates the kind of relationship I want to have with the notion of experience.
2) Organized Noize are better than the Bomb Squad. The beat is simple, but the hovering synthesizer noises that go through the whole song are a sonic embodiment of what they’re rapping about, which is being aware of and appreciating your life as it happens. Sorry that’s a sappy way to put it but it’s true, and as my life is governed more and more by routines now it’s also something I think is important.
3) The first music I fell in love with was Neutral Milk Hotel. People who read my thing in the Advocate a while back know that I would listen to it riding around on a lawnmower during the summer, taking advantage of the noise the machine made to yell the lyrics along without being heard. Since college, this is the first music that’s affected me with as much intensity. A friend of mine was over last week when it came up on shuffle, and it was either change the song or tell my friend to stop the conversation for a few minutes. I am glad that I can still have this happen with music.
