Ryan Leslie feat. Cassie and Fabolous - Addiction
I can't say enough good things about Ryan Leslie. He's a synthmaster and his music always makes me wanna move. And his latest, featuring P. Diddy's cooing, pet goat, Cassie, is another notch on the producer/singer/songwriter's belt. "Addiction" is a straightforward love song about the intense attraction and lust men and women feel for one another. The beat throbs and pulses while Leslie floats through the digital cacophony in a Pharrell-like falsetto. Cassie, who for the most part is marginally talented, plays her role well in this track, breathily sighing, "I'm addicted to you, I'm addicted to you, you're my addiction, my addiction." It's a simple hook, but sexy nonetheless. Cassie should just stick to being a hook girl and she'd actually be ok. Fab drops a decent verse but he's not the main draw. The only qualm I have with the track is the piano bit, it kind of throws off the vibe of the song, but not enough to make the song unlistenable.
Lil' Bow Wow feat. Soulja Boy - Marco Polo
It's kind of becoming a given that if Soulja Boy is releasing or featured on a song, it's lixo. This song is just another dumb, chant-rap track from the Soulja Boy camp and unfortunately, as usual, the kiddies are eating it up. If you come across this toxic garbage on the radio and you're over the age of 20, you'll be wondering what the hell happened to taste. As usual with Soulja Boy's music, the beat is simplistic as hell and his rhymes are lazy and pathetic. Sample: "This is not the matrix, but I am the oracle, Do you wanna fuck me? The question is rhetorical." Wow, poetry at its finest. Even though Soulja Boy is a bamma, Bow Wow is an even bigger bamma. This fool is desperate for a hit and he'll hop on board with any hot artist of the moment in the hopes of remaining relevant. When B2K was hot, he rode that gravy train til the wheels fell off. Then he got on board with Chris Brown for "Shorty Like Mine." I bet you now that Chris Brown probably doesn't even return Bow Wow's phone calls. Then, Lil' B tried to do a Best of Both Worlds deal with Omarion that predictably tanked. Now, he's hopping on Soulja Boy's nuts and jacking his sound, flailing around and playing peek-a-boo in a damn music video. Get an identity, Bow Wow.
