Ying Yang Twins - Whisper In Your Ear

Ah, but what caused the expectation to start with?

The aggression of the music, the whole crunk ethos (losing control &c)...

I like thinking of it as a dialogue with the female rappers and R&B girls, who more than hold their own via either rejection (Ciara) or trumping the aggressive sexual imagery with something even more threatening (Trina).

No, I don't think they mean it literally at all. A generous interpretation would just be that it's a careless turn-of-phrase, a less-generous one might suggest that if beating a pussy up is your idea of the right way to, uh, sex than your ("you" as in "one", not you personally) attitudes towards women might need to be examined. I don't think it's neccesarily either, but I wouldn't be comfortable singing it out loud.

There's a comic, surreal quality to the bravado here that makes it more amusing than offensive personally, though I totally understand if someone has no desire to hear it. I like stuff that's crass and irreverent. If it was performed more hatefully I wouldn't enjoy it. It's why I can enjoy Eazy-E's rhymes more than Ice Cube's sometimes on Straight Outta Compton.

I sang it out loud today! My best friend wanted to know more. We were in the National Gallery, oh dear. I'd be totally comfortable with singing the whole song out loud as it's a whisper anyway.

btw Ying Yang Twins' "Georgia Dome" specifically references that one of them won't eat anything that gets up and walks away.

I could probably think of songs that are misogynist in a more unsavory way, maybe. Like the Ramones' "Loudmouth".

TS: "beat" vs. "pound" as a verb referring to rough sex, consensual or otherwise?

these don't sound non-consensual to me

actually, if you look, I haven't really praised it that highly (I think the extent of my value judgement was "this is bananas"). I wrote about/linked it becauses I thought (rightly) that it was noteworthy and would provoke discussion, and because noone else seemed to have heard it yet. I do like it, though.

I wouldn't say I'm totally suspicious or dismissive of weird or minimalist beats with novelty value. I could come up with a much longer list of the ones I love than the ones I hate. there are just some that grate on me or that I think could have been done more effectively.

i will report back forthwith...

this some crazy shit. i dunno that i've ever really heard anything like this. that minimal, listener-under-water-sounding beat is surprisingly effective to these ears. the lyrics don't do much for me, but i really dig the delivery.

ALL: oh *really*

"Somebody turned the faucet on and didn't turn it off," D-Roc, one half of the Ying Yang Twins, blurted out on Wednesday in the "TRL" green room. He was poking fun at the predicament he and his "brother" Kane are in. Their new song, "Wait," has gotten out early, so they are quickly trying to turn an album around. "Somebody had leaked our music, and the people, the world [were taken] by surprise," Kane further explained. "It wasn't time for us to be looking at our album." "Wait" is easily one of the Twins' most sex-charged songs yet, with the guys rapping through the entire record in the tone of a whisper. "It's coming from the point of talking to a lady in her ear," Kane said. "Perverted whispers in her ear!" D-Roc chipped in. "You trying to get you some!" "Wait" is the first single from the Twins' United States of Atlanta album, due this summer...

I have a favorite album title of the year already.

Mustard is so consciously indebted to Lil Jon that i don't feel like i miss him as much as i did a few years ago. would be interesting to hear him be more engaged w/ rap's current wave than that new "Turn Down For What" knockoff single featuring Tyga, though.

Timbaland's hard shit is harder than the Neptunes tho

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nah honestly I think most of 'em are pretty bad but idk how many I'm thinking of. "3 A.M." being the one exception I'd agree with you on, shit's like a horror flick lol

dude at Ohword back in the mid-'00s had a post dissing the hell out of Timbaland during his JT/Nelly Furtado/Danjahandz resurgence and one of his main criticisms was that his catalogue's devoid of straight-up bangers. I disagreed at the time but he was onto something

Not that his "poppier"/typical old style in diff. eras style hasn't yielded tons of classics but it is a problem that disconnects him a bit from the core of the genre imo. Plus there's the fact that I just can't listen to Missy's albums straight through like that, although that is partially her fault, I don't think she's a very good rapper & the "goofiness" is not enough to make up for it

also Mustard may be indebted to Jon but I don't think he's anywhere near as good. though yeah not into "Turn Down for What" and lol don't know the other one you mentioned, fuck Tyga though

OK triple post my bad gonna chill heh

This song grosses me out. I don't like it when vox are recorded in a way that you can hear the saliva noises of the vocalists mouth...there's some Leonard Cohen songs I can't listen to for the same reason...this is my biggest pet peeve in all of music....this is maybe significant cuz it's the first rap song ever to do it. but it's still GROSS! yucky.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link