Nineteen Ninety Never

A few weeks ago CJ Milli made my day by dropping a couple of tracks in my inbox. It was like she was reading my mind when she combined Empire of The Sun’s  “We Are the People” and Kanye West’s “Homecoming” into awesome. She’s also put together a few of her own tracks.

CJ Milli - The People’s Homecoming (Kanye West + Empire of The Sun Mix)

CJ Milli - We Are Those Kids

She’s pretty cute and puts together some good beats, so check this chiquita out on MySpace. Like Clipse and John Carter, she’s from Virginia and it makes me think there must be something in the water down there.

And by way of a few bonus tracks that reminded me of her track…Chiddy Bang samples MGMT’s classic track Kids and gives it a bit of hip-hop flavor while The Mentalists simply cover it using nothing more than iPhones and their voices for instrumentation (watch the video of this if you don’t believe me).

Chiddy Bang - Kids

The Mentalists - Kids (MGMT iPhone Cover)

MGMT - Kids (808Kidz Remix)

Edgar Rice Burroughs had one hell of an imagination - he didn’t just write the Tarzan books (including Tarzan at the Earth’s Core), but he also wrote a series of books about Mars featuring an immortal named John Carter. Rumor has it they’re making a movie about his adventures, and I anticipate it being awesome.

In the books, John Carter is supposed to be from Virginia. You know who else is from Virginia? Pusha T and Malice from Clipse, that’s who.

Clipse feat. Pharrell - Mr. Me Too (Neon Coyote Remix)*

To top that off, here are some banging Mars-themed tracks to get you going.

Fake Blood - Mars (Original Edit)

Fake Blood - Mars (Herve Re-fix)

Kid Cudi feat. Crookers - Embrace The Martians (Tevar Edit)

* If you really want to stretch the connections here, it makes perfect sense to include a Neon Coyote remix in this Mars-themed post because The Coyote was a major character in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy. Throw your hands in the sky if you’ve read it!

I’ve been doing a bit of reading about the old RIFTS roleplaying game, and it sounds like Glitter Boy is pretty much the most bad-ass mech around. They’re made out of reflective armor so that beam-weapons can’t hurt them, and they carry around shoulder-mounted rail-guns. You wouldn’t want to mess with that.

Just as a bright, shiny mech like that would stand out on the post-apocalyptic battlefield, Kanye West stands out on the hip-hop war zone of the early 21st Century. I guess you could say he’s the Glitter Boy of rap.

Kanye West and Clipse - Kinda Like a Big Deal

Kanye West - Homecoming (DJ Kue Remix)

Kanye West - Diamonds (Ratatat Remix)

For other Kanye news, recent articles that talk about 50 Cent referring to Kanye as “try-sexual” are pretty hilarious. And speaking of Glitter Boys, it sounds like 50 spent over $60,000 on his teeth.