Day 13 – A song that is a guilty pleasure
"Hit 'em High (The MonStars Anthem)" B-Real, Busta Rhymes, Coolio, LL Cool J, and Method Man, "Space Jam" soundtrack
Yeah, I know. It's a blatant marketing gimmick: get five popular rappers to do a collab for a movie about basketball. Get it? Five guys? Because there's five guys on a basketball team?
Yeah, totally doomed to fail, right?
Well, I'd be right there along with you... if this song weren't so damn catchy!
I mean, here you have five all-stars of rap in their prime: B-Real of Cypress Hill, Coolio, Method Man of the Wu-Tang Clan, LL Fucking Cool J, and Busta Fucking Rhymes. Big names doing what is, really, a silly song celebrating the movie's villains, the MonStars. They could easily have just phoned it in and called it a paycheck.
They fucking killed it!
The only one who sounded like he might have been just paychecking it was Coolio, but with him it's hard to tell.
Seriously, on paper, everything about this song screams "Bad! Fail! Avoid at all costs!" But, to paraphrase ESPN anchor Kenny Mayne: songs aren't played on paper; they're played inside boom boxes.
Listen to it. Give it a chance. You'll be bouncing as early as the first line.
In fact, give the whole soundtrack a shot. Seal's cover of "Fly Like An Eagle" is amazing, and, of course you can't badmouth R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly". Just about every track on there is at least good, most great.
...but, of course, that's because all the suck was taken up by "Buggin'"
Yeah. That.
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