If You're Reading this it's Not too Late to Enjoy this Song

Drake is amazing at making songs that middle schoolers can latch onto for months and repeat phrases they don't really understand. Is he on a quest to expand the vocabulary for prepubescents or is this just another ride around the mean streets of Toronto? Hauntingly chill and ever increasingly mellow, it's never to late to listen.

http://youtu.be/79AR0VC5wCA

Lupe Fiasco: Ghetto Story

What an amazing song. Every time I listen to it I'm completely transformed into a yogi levitating over my old East New York neighborhood. This is some bleak stuff man. How many ways are there to analyze the plight and living conditions of marginalized communities? Lupe has a million answers. At the end of the song he is so exasperated from spilling his plasma all over the record he simply states: In the end,
                           I hope we learn more,
                                                              Than how to be whores,
                                                                                                    and how to move a ball.

Meek Mill: 4/4

I don't understand. Meek Mill mumbles and I don't understand what he is saying. I can understand every single word that Drizzy says. Speech pathology is necessary. Articulate, pronunciate, extrapolate, intonate.

Lupe Fiasco: Chopper

Lupe Fiasco doesn't just rap about the hypocrisy of living a marginalized life, often he makes full forays, and this time, he brings friends along.

This is an amazingly atmospheric track from his most esoteric of albums.

• Filet mignon from my food stamps
• Medical card from Obama
• Background check for a Chopper * blooooaw

Shakira: Underneath your Clothes

Shakira is really an amazing songwriter, especially since English is her second language. But that isn't exactly a politically correct statement to write, as music isn't bound by language and she has been traversing pop music boundaries since she had black hair and ONLY sung in Spanish. This song is awesome, not only for its clear expression of love for another's corporal being but because of its love of the beauty and depth of language in rhyme.

Like a lady tied to her manners, she's tied up to this feeling. Linda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwBwKcQ1k84

The A Team

Perfect time of year to listen to this jam as motivations are slowing down, outlooks are bleak. It's too cold outside. But the world keeps calling. The rent isn't going to pay itself.

http://youtu.be/UAWcs5H-qgQ

Life Support- Sam Smith

The 8th on In the Lonely Hour, Life Support is the kind of track that you initially dismiss as myopic, but eventually love for its image-evoking lyrics and vulnerable performance. A must listen.

http://youtu.be/XwGQfbarg1U

Sorry

I never thought I would be vibing to Beiber. But hey, times change, people change, is too late to say, "sorry?"