Ying Yang Twins - Whisper In Your Ear

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it's not that great a beat, really, is it? i'm suprised that Al likes it as much as he does. considering he's normally way suspicious of ilm's love of 'novelty-production' rap (bellydancer/goodies/other things that would support my point but i can't think of at the moment)

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know if I'm ready to hear this.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Why the fuck does anyone think there's anything nonconsensual about this song?? It's a really bizarre leap to make at best, and frankly I find really close to implying that black men like to rape people

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Nate, you don't think the ying yang twins have memorable deliveries?!

― deej., Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I think they sound like a raunchy, rapping tom waits from ATL.

― deej., Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

"mind if i touch it... unless you say that I can... I don't mind askin'"

these don't sound non-consensual to me

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I may have missed a specific post or something, but who implied it was non-consensual, Tracer?

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

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.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:16 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, i was being kinda dismissive. sorry if i rubbed ya the wrong way.

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link

oh no it's all good, i can understand you getting that impression.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

can someone gmail this to me, pleeeeeaz? econjohn at g mail . com

i will report back forthwith...

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Sent, John.

― C0L1N B--KETT, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

thanks c0l1n!

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.

― john'n'chicago, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I think I'm just overreacting, miccio.

ALL: oh *really*

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Really, it's all about the textures, just hearing those occasional semi-wolf-whistle wails here and there is such an effective touch. The main tag line is intentionally ridiculously nonsexy, surely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 January 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm lovin this. It sounds like Reich's Drumming performed by a bunch of horny ghetto adolescents.

― Rizz (Rizz), Saturday, 15 January 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/mixtape_monday/012405/

"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...

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

and now it's track 22 on the new DJ Smallz Southern Smoke 16.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 28 January 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

United States of Atlanta

I have a favorite album title of the year already.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to wait til the Summer for this?!??!?!

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I keep imagining Tom Waits covering this with similarly minimal but rattling percussion.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 28 January 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I want a WAV file of Tom Waits sayin' "How ya doin' lil shawty?" that I can use to replace the windows chimes when I turn on my computer.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 28 January 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

haha yeah i thought of tom waits when i was listening to it too.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not as ecstatic about this as I was when I first downloaded it. The whole thing is way too long for the gimmick.

― C0L1N B--KETT, Saturday, 29 January 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Still great.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 March 2005 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link

still the wrong title in the subject line. I'm such a pedant, but that bugs the shit out of me.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 12 March 2005 07:30 (nineteen years ago) link

True. It's "Wait", if a helpful mod would like to alter.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 March 2005 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually like the wrong title better than "Wait".

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 12 March 2005 07:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Not as bad as when I mistitled the Mannie Fresh - Real Big thread "Really Big"

― deej., Saturday, 12 March 2005 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link

scares the shit out of me. reminds me of robert ashley. i get flashbacks from stuff like this/that.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 March 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I still listen to this all the time

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 March 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

This is fantastic but the radio edit is ungodly.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 12 March 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"Fuck her in the eye/ fuck her in the eye/ blind the bitch/ blind the bitch"

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

He ain't talkin' about me!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 March 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Why does sex rap instantly = misogyny? Has no one here ever made with the dirty talk in the bedroom?

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 12 March 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think I'd have quite the sexual confidence to pull off "Fuck her in the eye/ fuck her in the eye/ blind the bitch/ blind the bitch", Tantrum.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 12 March 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

a hole's a hole, dude

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

well, not really

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

unless you're Houston

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

*silence*

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

*whispers*

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 12 March 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link

everybody's aware that Milo's referencing a Chris Rock routine, yes?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 13 March 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

it's funner not to be.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 13 March 2005 01:22 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah i love that bit (xp)

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 13 March 2005 01:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think I'd have quite the sexual confidence to pull off "Fuck her in the eye/ fuck her in the eye/ blind the bitch/ blind the bitch", Tantrum.

Neither did the Ying Yang Twins!

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 13 March 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I first heard this song driving home in South Knoxville really late at night, no other cars on the road, feeling really sleepy and just wanting to make it home. "Wait" came on, and I was WIDE-a-fucking-wake. "WHATTHAFUCKISTHAT!" It IS menacing, but I don't find it inherently misogynist.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 13 March 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

THE VIDEO!
WITH A FAR SUPERIOR EDIT!
Right Here in Quicktime!
On MTV in about a week. Couldn't ask for better: Th' Twins all Matrixed out and Spencer Tunick style nude writhing.
LOVE the beard!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 April 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

That video is fucking hysterical (and the new edited version is obv much better than the "Never get enough/never get enough" edited crappy on.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 4 April 2005 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

video of the year

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 4 April 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

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