Category: rap

Christmas Countdown: 365*

Perhaps Christmas ought to be every day. Well, the spirit for it anyway. Too much?! Don’t decide until after you hear these songs out.

Don’t stop the love! Keep your lights up! croons the reggae ringing Mahami (feat. STRTWLKR) in “Christmas 365.” An upbeat sentiment you can march to.

Miss Tania Lou also hopes it up with her “Christmas Soca!” A good cheer that should last 365 days a year! Unite! Delight! Dance! Ay-yi-yi!

John Butler asks you to celebrate with him every day of the year–because it was a rough year. Am i missing a step in the logic here? “Merry Christmas – Christmas 365” is a rhythm machine gospel plea that needs no sense, just hope.

Barry Biggs figures Christmas trees and street lights will help solve the homelessness problem in the carrib-beat “Christmas 365.” If you believe, that is. It’s on you.

Country swing from Tracy Barfield wants you to live Christmas like it’s always been. “Christmas 365” is a line-dance party around the world. And a one-two-three…

Shame (with Roc Dean) party rap out “Christmas 365” to celebrate, uh, just this song. No big picture here.

The BIG picture seems to be the topic of Superb Lyrics’s “Persevere Before Next New Years.” This hipster experimental word salad rap pins rainbows, attraction, manifestations, management, goodies, goal projects–and more. Get’r done!

Christmas Countdown: 5:00

Double Vision, Ryan Rane, Noah Strykes is hurting in the long D bicoastal thing “Through a Screen.” Plonky altpop measures the 3000 miles and the 500 hours (21 days?) the season will separate them. Not even Skype will make it a real Christmas. A sighing song.

Jack Bennett does one of those tongue trippin’ rap races over “Christmas Morning“–which is odd at his oldness. ‘Course he Remember waking up, 5:00 in the morning, we were little kids… but this is later. Still spry for a fly guy. Antic and fun if you try to keep up with the pop references.

Christmas Countdown: 666

420 Stoner Metal gets repetitive in their metallic/experimental production “Christmas No. 666,” but it’s all hell all the time.

The boredom of it all inspires “666 Christmas 666 (Endless Summer),” a downbeat pop dirge from Hot Gossip.

Everlast warns of the mark of the beast 666 in the righteously angry rap “Speak No Evil.” Satan bad. Jesus good. Got it? (If not, try the message backwards on the link below.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd718D5O4-g

Christmas Countdown: A689

Time to get weird. “Xmas off the A689” from Faithful Johannes tells the tale of a traveller’s spinout in a whiteout and his slow submission to exposure stuck in his car for the holidays. The A689 is a stretch of UK roadway from Carlisle in Cumbria, to Hartlepool in County Durham. This is near Scotland touching on about the only ski-center in England. So, less merry and more brrr.

Christmas Countdown: 710 BLUE ALERT

More playful rap from isthatfr0st (ft. Ham Sandwich, 954mari, Ty Wild & more) about playing the game in “How the Camogod Scammed Christmas.” Among the fun’n’stuff someone Just switched lil timmy’s 3070 for a 710 which looks to be jacking some kid’s decent graphics card outta his video gaming computer system and leaving him with crap. ‘Tis the season.

Christmas Countdown: 7/11 BLUE ALERT

Hollywood Undead claim to have a tough ‘hood in “Christmas in Hollywood.” Some kid even steals from the 7/11. Also, booze, sex, adult oppression. Hanukkah shows up, too. Rapping white boys. Amiright?

Bob Rivers sneaks in a 7/11 ref in his overproduced ‘Oz’ parody “The Magical Kingdom of Claus.” It’s a sketch, but the number is noted in song, so let’s play. (This is historical, kids, so you’ll have to look up some of the cultural signifiers.)