The 11s: (5) Favorite Hooks...

11:45 am - Tue, Dec 27, 2011: 5 notes

The 11s: (5) Favorite Hooks…

Hey, I gotta pad this shit out somehow to meet my goal of 11 lists with 11 items before the end of the year! Besides, hooks and beats (yep, that list is in the cooker too *shrug*) are all anyone seems to listen to anymore, so why not make a list of my favorite hooks/choruses this year.

I tend to give hooks more points when they’re done by the guy the song is credited to. I respect that a lot. Hooks also earn more love from me when they aren’t sung. If you want to sing, go do R&B nigga. I’m not looking for the MOST infectious shit either - that’s probably on radio anyway, but I love some of that shit too.

Aight, here we go:

Juicy J - She Dancin/Who Da Neighbors: Hilariously vulgar stripper music. I played this shit for a date once and she almost didn’t fuck me. But I’m charming and handsome and I get away with shit like that a lot. It’s true. Don’t hate me because I’m a pretty muthafucka. But to get back to the the point, ‘Who Da Neighbors’ is where it’s at dammit! If you’ve read this blog at all in 2011, you know that I’m in love with this song. This shit stupid clever. Who! Who? Now that’s paper!
Future - Ain’t No Way Around It [Remix]: Like most people with any kind of taste, I can’t stand autotune. Never could. But it keeps fighting on. I applaud its persistence. I hated the hook on that ‘Tony Montana’ shit, but the stupid simplicity of this hook got me to hang around long enough to hear Big Boi’s blistering verse. Totally worth it.
Waka Flocka Flame - Round of Applause: I played this so much that another one of my girls banned me from playing it in her presence. She said that I ruined it for her. I just say she’s a prude (if you’re reading this, let a nigga get that “thang” for New Year’s or some shit - I’ll throw in a nice dinner or something).
Pusha T - Don’t Fuck With Me: This is one of the more skeletal hooks on this list, but it works by tying Pushaton’s freestyle together. Plus it completely annihilates any remaining evidence of Drake’s prior possession of this beat.
Drake - She Will: Of course Le Negrito Taupe made the list. He’s talented and no where is this more evident than when he’s doing a hook. Points deducted for referring to himself and his crew of fuckbois as the “realest niggas in the game.” C’mon son.
Drake - I’m On One: Even folks that can’t stand Drake in any capacity have to acknowledge the brilliance of this hook, lest they look stupid as fuck.
Rick Rawse - By Any Means: This is on the list for the sheer ridiculousness of the hook. It’s utterly retarded and blasphemous, thus making it hilarious and vaguely catchy. The peak of Rawse’s delusions to date. I’m sure he’ll top this in the very near future. #SNOW
Ace Hood - Hustle Hard: This hook is so relatable and intense that you actually forget that Ace Hood sucks. There’s no greater compliment to a shitty rapper. Take a bow son. But he loses points for trying to remake the song as his next single, even though he had already remixed the original song. Idiot.
Young Jeezy - F.A.M.E.: When Snow’s trademark/typical trap rap bangers kept failing to gain any traction at all (he made a ton of really good ones, but the powers that be did not want to see this man win for some reason, but the real prevails), he made the wise choice to go in a different direction from what we’d become accustomed to with this track. The hook here is angry and subdued all at once. It works. Well.
Freddie Gibbs & 1-OAK - Chill: This shit is just beautiful. You didn’t think I’d go through an entire list without a Gibbs shoutout? Well, this hook deserves it. It’s a bit of a duet, but it’s excellent. Great summer shit.
Curren$y/Teedra Moses - Rise: This hook makes you wonder why Curren$y doesn’t do shit like this on his albums a little more often. One or two these per project might get Spitta a Bentley to go with that Ferrari. In other words, some radio love. I know he ain’t trippin on radio love, but it would be really nice to walk into the barbershop someday and hear some Curren$y. Oh and Teedra Moses is just the best. Love her.