awnaw, hell no.

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it's my spring-summer jam now for sure, playing it in the car, temp @ 70+.

― jess, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

that two note organ intro is like orange soda on a very hot day.

― jess, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

More like red pop, really, I think.

― matthew m., Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It is an AMAZING tune... the chorus is somehow really melancholy and joyous at the same time - howdeydodat? The most poignant song about a truck ever?

― Clarke B., Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

For the ignorant, this is by who...?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

sorry, it's the nappy roots. i'm saving all my good thorts on them for something i'm writing probably for nylpm. if you turn on m2 at any given time of the day ned, it's pretty inescapable.

― jess, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

An amazing song. The guitarist from P.O.D. is remixing it as a rock song. Even better!

― Yancey, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Concur, esp. with Clarke: that chorus is just beyond great. Like a bizarro universe Dr Dre who only wants to spread joy.

― John Darnielle, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

At first I thought this was someone reacting to Greil Marcus' glib dismissal of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on Salon.com. Good thing it's about Nappy Roots instead because it's great. "Hated for the cussin'/but the hatred it made us cuss more." Beats sound like a Southern answer to Handsome Boy Modeling School's "Rock and Roll (Could Never Hip-Hop Like This)", with the big organ riffs, though the guitar's a lot more subtle.
BIG FAT WHEELS

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Clarification on that first sentence:
Greil: It isn't against the law to redo "Revolver," but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. Especially if you're an American.
Me: Aw naw, hell no!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled crunk-luv.

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

if you turn on m2 at any given time of the day

Ah, see, that's a dangerous assumption to make in my case. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Right now I like it, but I can tell already that by mid-Summer I will be sick of hearing it.

― J Blount, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

maybe so, but there's a damn fine album backing it up to get sick of after "Awnaw" runs its course

― M Matos, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

um...

― Ron, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

when the video started making the rounds on Rap City about six months ago, i'd groove to the organ intro, but then flip the channel shortly after the vocals kicked in. so it was a while before i was even aware of that huge chorus. the Letterman performance was pretty great, mainly because Jazz Pha was there to sing the hook, every other TV performance i've seen has been sans JP and therefore pretty lame.

i dig, but remain skeptical, mainly because of the cliche'd country-ass dirty soufisms that they're playing up more shamelessly than Bubba Sparxxx. not that i think they're faking or anything, but let's just say i'm afraid their next video will be a take off on Hee Haw or something.

― al, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

they're all college students. i'm not saying college students can't be country-ass, but i'm skeptical. howebber, aside from the video and explicit in-song refs to "country", it doesn't sound particularly country-ass t'me

― bc, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I have to say I heard this song five times on the radio today, once directly in between "Oops, Oh My" and "More Than A Woman", two of my favorite recent singles, and it held up. The organ lick is undeniable and the guitar almost as great. If the beats were more interesting and the country not quite as affected I could love it without qualification. Nappy Roots - the X-Clan to Outkast's P.E.?

― J Blount, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

haha thats so true because the x clan bit hard!!

― ethan, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I keep waiting for some ex-X-Clan figure to turn up in that Nuwaubian scandal. And for Def Jef to turn up on the Zach De La Rocha album.

― J Blount, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

god how many years has it been since i even thought about the x clan?? 'vanglorious! protected by the red black and green!!'

― ethan, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

twenty-two years pass...

still a classic

― Riposte Malone (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 December 2024 19:28 (six days ago) link

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