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audio review : Stacey Adams ( song ) … Snoop Dogg ( featuring Kokane )

This is Snoop Dogg’s dedication to the OGs. You can even call it a player’s anthem as he pimp-raps, almost freestyling, over a laid-back thumper; perhaps Battlecat’s best production so far. It’s almost certainly Snoop’s best song, thanks in part to its classic chorus.

“We stay on point like Stacey Adams,” Kokane insists, transforming a simple simile into a grand testimony with his laughably whiny singing style; a homage to George Clinton. That glorious hook, playing along with the music, represents the best of new-age funk.

my rating : 5 of 5

2000

audio review : Real Talk ( song ) … R Kelly

It’s a heated Talk between R Kelly and his girl, but eavesdroppers only get to hear his side of the story. “Wait a minute; calm down,” he starts. By the end, he’s calling his driver to take him home, so he can stop that “bitch” from burning his clothes.

What was once a nice relationship has, over five years, descended into a dramatic mess. One of her friends; the “no-man-having hoes” he so despises; told her she saw him at a dance club over the weekend with another girl and she believes her.

Some of what he says is funny and the background music is sweet, but the song lacks if it is indeed supposed to be a song. Perhaps it would’ve been better as a skit in which he actually talked instead of singing a random array of tactless melodies.

my rating : 3 of 5

2007

video review : The Bling Ring

video review : The Bling Ring

A few years ago, a ring of teenagers were arrested for burglarizing several Hollywood Hills homes. Many of their victims were famous celebrities. Paris Hilton was one of them. It was a story that warranted media attention and got it, but a movie? The answer is no, but here it is; a somewhat fictionalized take on the scandal, one that comes across as more of a box office cash-in than a work of art.

Sofia Coppola directs by summarizing and glamorizing. The protagonists, all or most of whom are already out of jail in real life, are stupid but trendy; annoying but cool; in a typical Californian pop-culture sort of way. When they’re not burglarizing, they’re sniffing coke and partying. That’s especially the case for ring leader Rebecca. The plot revolves mostly around her and her friend Marc.

my rating : 3 of 5

2013