mixtape maestro (2.0)

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• Azealia Banks “Liquorice”
• 50 Cent “Wait Until Tonight”
• Meg Myers “Monster”

Azealia Banks “Liquorice” Posted: 16 Dec 2011 10:59 PM PST Undie-hip hop newcomer Azealia Banks continues to dish out the awesomeness with newest freebie treat “Liquorice”, another dip in the feel-good hip-house pool (this time based around a sample of Lone‘s old-school rave 2010 shuffler “Pineapple Crush”) sparked aflame by rewind-worthy dosages of her rapid-fire tongue twisting flow and naughty-naughty lyricism. “Take a lick up on my genital/ Then sip the sabre/ Do your man and his licorice’s interest a favor,” she spits, one of many nuggets of flavor-filled advice–some of which is delivered in a teasingly brief display of her sultry singing voice–she doles out to help her fellow ladies get their cash flow up: “Bitches better tan for the summer and for the haters/ Quit that chit-chat and get your paper”. Sounds like a future dance-floor filler for us, and coupled with the excitement of a possible Kanye West collabo down the line, Miss Banks has only strengthened her position near the top of our list as one to keep both eyes and ears on in 2012. LIQUORICE by Azealia Banks

50 Cent “Wait Until Tonight” Posted: 16 Dec 2011 04:16 PM PST It seems like it was only yesterday when 50 Cent was dominating damn near everything, putting a swift, premature end to many a rappers’ career in his seemingly unstoppable reign on both the hood blocks and radio airwaves. These days, over a decade in the game, Fiddy no longer feels like the omnipresent beast he once was, but every once in awhile he drops something new that proves that he still has the skills to be able to take things back over if he wants to. One of these latest “something”‘s is “Wait Until Tonight”, a ladies-targeted highlight from the rapper’s new mixtape The Big 10, that feels like a trip back in time to when even your grandmama was shouting “G-Unit!”. Here, as producer Scoop DeVille cooks up a seductive, chilling-with-blunts-friendly flip on Bobby Womack’s 1981 classic “If You Think You’re Lonely Now”, 50 reminds your lady why he was her favorite fantasy thug back in the day, putting his panty-disintegrating mack lines to good use on a “half J. Lo/ Half Jessica Biel” dime (“I kill it then I give ya mouth-to-mouth CPR/ Bring ya back to life, climax, start your after life”). 50 Cent – Wait Until Tonight by mixtapemaestro

Meg Myers “Monster” Posted: 16 Dec 2011 03:02 PM PST “Monster”, by Tennessee-raised/ Los Angeles-based newcomer Meg Myers, hearkens back to that fantastic Fiona/ Alanis ’90′s female rock movement where women sounded like they were about to do some serious shit wrecking over jerk boyfriends and their cruel heart-bruising ways. Brought to the edge by a partner who seems to have forgotten what his previous promise to love her “forever” entailed (“Ohhhhh what it takes out of me to lay by your side/ Ohhhhh well it aches and it aches/ You make me wanna die”), Myers bristles here with a frightening mixture of heartache and rage as her inner crazy chick begins to take over, sparking all kinds of dark, homicidal thoughts (“I gotta kill you my love”) as if taking him out completely is the only way to heal her of her pain. Could she really go through with it? The vocal lain her–all spine-tinging vibrato, pained wails and husky growls–coupled with the moody, cello-accented pop-rock grunge by producer/ blogosphere remixing heavyweight Doctor Rosen Rosen surely convinces so. Myers is set to drop a six-song EP in January. Below, peep an acoustic version of “Monster”:

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