this is from the 'Celebrity Playlists' part of the Apple Music Store:
1. A Thousand Miles, Vanessa Carlton: See I always liked the song until I saw the movie "White Girls." This must be the white song that all the black people like, you know every year there's a song that black people like and this is that. I love the string arrangements. Ron Fare is really up on the strings.
2. 12:15, The Strokes: Ah man, I love this song so much that I almost f'cked up the mix down on my album because you can barely hear the lyrics. I went in the mix on my album trying to make the guitar louder, trying to make it sound like The Strokes, and Common was like, 'Come on man, that don't sound like hip-hop. Come on man, turn them drums up."
3. Seven Nation Army, The White Stripes: Ok this is another song that is all black people's favorite white song. Everybody loves The White Stripes so it's kind of cliche, but it's really dope and I love the singer/songwriter/producer thing so..."
4. The Scientist, Coldplay: This is a song where the video really made me go back and look at it. "The Scientist" is one of the dopest videos, it's one of my top-five videos of all time, but I also like the song.
5. Torn, Natalie Imbruglia: Once again another black people's favorite white song because it's a really dope remake, and she had a couple of other dope songs on the album too.
6. Spaceship, Kanye West: This is dedicated to anybody who has a job whose manager is coming down on them who doesn't understand that $4.25 an hour just isn't going to make it. This is one of my theme songs right here—I remember working at The Gap. It's a true story.
7. Lucifer, Jay-Z: Man, I love this beat right here. I was going to use it on my album but I felt like "Jesus Walks" and "Lucifer" both needed their own albums and their own space.
8. Sleep to Dream, Fiona Apple: I was feeling it out the box but the production on this album is top notch. The drums, the sound of it... I've tried to make sh't like this, and when you fall short of that you get like a song like "Two Words."
9. Cause I Love You, Lenny Williams: This is the song that made me do "Slow Jamz." Steve Harvey was playing it in the "Kings of Comedy" talking bout, there's no good rap, there's no good music anymore. We want to listen to stuff like this. It's also ironic that I used it for Twista's next single after "Slow Jamz," "Overnight Celebrity."
10. Mystery of Iniquity, Lauryn Hill: You know why I like this song. The melody is really dope, she was really snapping on the raps... Aww man, like the way she was lyrically so past people.
11. Distant Lover, Marvin Gaye: You just can't explain why you like any Marvin Gaye song, but this one inspired the track for "Spaceship."
12. Am I High, N.E.R.D.: "Am I High" is mine and everybody else I know's favorite song on the N.E.R.D. classic album "In Search of..."
13. Used to Love U, John Legend: I really just went through something like what he's talking about in the song so it really hit me in the heart at the time.
14. This Love, Maroon 5: You know why I like that song ... Maroon 5 is one of my favorite groups.
15. Take Me Out, Franz Ferdinand: This is the real thing right here, I can't wait to finally get the opportunity to go see them perform, I heard their stage show is crazy.
16. No Such Thing, John Mayer: OK, I could have took John Mayer both of his whole albums, "Heavier Things" and "Room for Squares." I could have picked any song off of those albums. I'm a big John Mayer fan.
17. Scar Tissue, Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot Chili Peppers is my favorite group of all times, he says "broken jaw" on it too so you know I like that.
18. The Reason, Hoobastank: Them my home boys, I always see them when we go to places like England and Canada. We always kicking it backstage you know just having a good time.
19. Selfish, Slum Village: This melody is just really infectious and mature, it's like that grown-man music.
20. 99 Problems, Jay-Z: Man, Jay-Z was just snapping on these raps so hard and the way he did the other voices in the middle, man he was killing that.
21. Electric Relaxation, ATCQ: OK, this is what takes me back to the reason that I wanted to do music or I wanted to bring back to the game and I finally got a chance.
22. How Many MCs: N'gga, this is how you know I'm really hip-hop if I picked this. This is a classic.
23. The Rain, Missy Elliott: This is actually my favorite. I remember we use to always have arguments about what's Missy's best song, well this is my favorite Missy song.
― splooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:10 (twenty years ago)
eleven months pass...