Year-round Yuletide oddities
Roger Creager admits “I Got the Guns” back around Christmas ’79. This rocking country codependency is as fetishistic as it sounds, ending with the list: Just and old bolt-action 16 gauge; And my grandmother’s 410; A 270 that my dad fired once–He brought a mule deer in. Woo.
Judging and smoking, Mr. Loaf fronts that he comes from the 270 in “Gingerloaf.” Could be Greensboro, NC. Could be Bowling Green, KY. Sure it’s the tough part of wherever, though. Christmas is not a bright spot in this rap.
If love is a battlefield, gifts are a strategy. Trey Songz raps down on the special purchases made for his lovely just to get the hoes mad. “#Christmas (Guess Who)” includes the purchase of a Hublot 305 for his own self (a watch that costs more than a car). Got it/flaunt it.
What’s going on on the third floor? Well, come around the holidays Gnarwhalz is white-boy rapping about “Christmas in 311,” an unfortunate expletive-laden get-down witchyo funky-ness.
“A 333 Christmas” brings together yc boy (ft. shnus, will huge & wn) for a dope-smacked junk food-fueled Satyricon. Lazy, obscene rap–but i can only guess what the triple three means: sex.
Cole DeRuse calls back his ideal childhood by way of video game platforms. After a round of Sega and Playstation2, he raps Take me back to when I got that 360 For Christmas. “Take Me Back” is pretty sweet nostalgia for a parent who can’t play no mo’.
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!
“Wish List” by Big Burd (feat. Anastasia Pshokina) is a straight out rap love song without the putdowns and crudities. Romcom fun, where he gets up as early as kid-possible (4:30) to find that particular cute girl under the tree. Swings like R+B.
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.
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.)
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.