people make the world go round

DK appearance in a noisy track that is NSFW. but "kinky sex makes the world go round" is welcome addition to my growing collection of snowclones here. phone calls to conspire towards war and exploitation over some AM punk radio station and muffled sex sounds. this hits on so many important issues of right NOW outside of this blog. it even namechecks Qaddafi. "we've got the college kids so interested in beer they don't even care if we start manufacturing germ bombs again." jello was dropping some truth about the pathways of money and control in the world that still run it today. #ows

total departure from the previous versions grounded in some soul/hip-hop origins. sandy B, i think, and the deep dish edition. there are a couple other mixes of this out there including one by david guetta. the stonebridge mix is longer and takes a while to assemble. curious digging to hear the life of this phrase in a house/electronic music context.

nas is great. and he keeps environmentalists angry, apparently. nas adapts this snowclone to suit the scale of braggadocio required to make top-40 hip-hop hits: we [the gangsters, ballers, et al.] make the world go round. curious how the now-distant original stylistics cut started as a portrait of neighborhood ground-up solidarity and activism [trashmen wanting more pay, etc] and this elevates the phrase to one of G status. instead of picking up trash around the base of the skyscraper they are rapping from the top of it. interesting. also i am not a fan of chris brown for the record. 

bagging slightly larger hip-hop figures with a track from g unit: "money make the world go round." to be grammatically correct, one would say money makes the world go round but this preserves the original plural verb form and is just more street. plus an extra S sound in the quick hook statement would be out of place. this predates marc payne's "haters" track on youtube by only a month so they sort of happened at the same time but independently. 

an earlier, slightly better take on the concept of "haters make the world go round." this disperses with any hint of the stylistics and is straight LA hip-hop. "all y'all comin up short like gary coleman." there could be a whole other tumblr on gary coleman references in hip-hop...

word nerd out section: this type of substitution within a phrase, changing a single world or recontextualizing a statement to shift its meaning, is called a snowclone. another archetype of this include "X is the new X": black is the new white, 50 is the new 40, bushwick is the new williamsburg.  there is a lot of good documentation about snowclones at snowclones.org. recent excavations include the "i [shape] X" trend among others. i will explore this snowclone extension of PMTWGR in the next couple vids. 

soulful 90s version from marc dorsey, the version used by spike lee in the opening sequence of crooklyn. straight syrup.

boogie version from angela bofill. a slight latin feel on the bridge. nice breakdown in the middle of the track. bass player is workin'. one for the dance floor, for sure.

another one. interesting chopping at the end of the track. 

just found some more beat junkies sampling the track. nod ya head. 

ezra's lineage for the tune is "R&B to jazz," stylistics to ramsey lewis (his 2nd version), inspired by brian o'neal's version. in case you've been fumbling around for the chords for this tune, here is your cheat sheet. lots of expansive ornate gravy. modal pieces like this are great opportunities for keyboard players to let it out, whatever it is. 

youtube's brian o'neal shedding on a version with decent pocket to it, going all over the place. tastier than some of the recent versions i've posted. 

wedding jazz is a particular strain of awkwardness. here the bride sits in to deliver a benign medium-up version of the tune, a swinging consideration we haven't seen much of here. also the first version i've seen that is rendered while inside a gazebo. 

kyoto rasta bounce in full effect, also appropriating the marcus miller “head” to the tune. recorded live in 2005 at “blue jay way,” also a beatles tune. one of the weirdest versions, from the ska beat to the boa-d, masked singers (the main vocalist has a hard time finding the right key), to the space kalimba yamaha sounds and the ritual half-time dance that begins during the guitar player’s solo. also the ecstatic but amateur break section at the end. no spoilers, it is worth 8.5 minutes of your life, maybe.

youtube user "live4themelody" gauges this version as "the best cover I have seen of this song on youtube." live from SF. still tasty at a slightly lower BPM than usual. too bad i can only see half of the bass player as he delivers some thoughtful lines. sometimes half is just enough. 

bro evan knight grooving out at the glenora wine cellars, located proximately to one of the finger lakes near ithaca in upstate new york. put your nose in the glass and enjoy the smell. 

from the personal vaults. the group profile from their 1973 album "sands of time," a respectful jazz funk outing with a number of covers of expected material (shaft, "by the time i get to phoenix").