THE NEW MUSIC REVIEW

Kanye West – Stronger (full) – download
I think I might just like this song because of the sample of “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” by Daft Punk, which just happens to be one of my favorites. Kanye sounds good too, I just think this is an overall nice song. I wasn’t really listening to the words, because I was so focused on how he sampled this song. I just think it’s very interesting what we’re using these days to be more innovative.

Rihanna – Haunted (full) – download
This is a bonus track that leaked from Rihanna’s “Good Girl Gone Bad.” I can totally see why this was left off of the album. It doesn’t really fit the overall feel of the album, beside it being a dance record. This song just seems like Rihanna hitting the studio to have a little fun. After listening to Rihanna’s album, I can completely appreciate what she’s trying to do, aside from her voice not really doing anything for me. But “Haunted” is definitely album-filler leftovers.

Kelly Rowland feat. Snoop Dogg – Ghetto (snippet) – download
Looks like Kelly Rowland’s album is coming out. I’m glad too, because it’s been a long time coming. A low quality snippet had leaked of this song, but a much longer, super-clear version has finally been released, complete with Snoop Dogg. Although I don’t too much prefer the lyrics to this song, I really enjoy the production and the way Kelly’s voice rides the track. I think this tempo is a good look for her.

Rich Boy feat. Polow Da Don & Rich Boy – Good Things (full) – download
Apparently, the third single from Rich Boy’s album is “Good Things,” produced by the homie Polow Da Don, and featuring my homegirl Keri Hilson. This is actually production and content-wise, one of my favorite songs from Rich Boy’s debut album, which has garnered him much success. “Throw Some D’s” was a huge record, “Boy Looka Here” got a lot of play in the clubs, but I think this is definitely a radio friendly hit.

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69 Responses to THE NEW MUSIC REVIEW

  1. JFR

    Daft Punk is the sh!t. Kanye is good for sampling all sorts of random people.

  2. OH YES I DID

    “Cry” is a much better bonus track from Rihanna’s album “Good Girl Gone Bad”… listen here:

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/210697058b39c4/

  3. OH YES I DID

    And you spelt Rihanna wrong; spelt it Ribanna… change please.

  4. BYE POLAR

    kanye-

    very nice song

    good msg too

    rihanna-

    nice song

    i love house music

    kelly

    i didnt know people still sang about rims?

    nice grove but i dont know

    the last guy sounded regular

    i’m surprised that most of the music is actually decent

    nothing ground breaking

    but decent enuff

    good for them!

  5. #4, thanks. :)

    #2, yeah, I love daft punk too.

  6. algie

    can’t wait for kelly’s cd. i like the vibe of the song

  7. JHAJHA

    BRIAN, real version of haunted, that’s the remix
    http://www.zshare.net/audio/214918041c6251/

  8. musiccritic

    yeah i agree wit #3, cry is a better bonus track on rihanna’s CD and im suprised her Cd has many songz u can play over and over again.

  9. Rich boy song is great

    rihanna song is a shitty mess

    kelly is alright

  10. New Music

    Have y’all heard that new joint from Lil Wayne and Stunna? It’s fire. It’s called Make-Up Sex.

  11. TaTaTamara

    For some reason I get that nervous, sick feeliing in the pit of my stomach when I think about what Kelly’s album is gonna sound like. I was oh so disappointed after I heard Simply Deep. It turned out to be simply garbage. I don’t jump up when I hear the first single with Eve. I can’t even remember the name of the track. And being a DC fan, this worries me. So when is the scheduled release date?

  12. JStreete from Hiram Clarke Houston Texas

    Kanye’s is bananas

  13. i used to love kanye when he was more humble.so i didnt even download nor listen to his

    the 2 rihanna songs ya’ll posted are cool.the “Cry” sounds so much like Unfaithful to me.but im surprised its only 2 songs i dont like off her album,”Shut Up and Drive” and “Sell Me Candy”

    that rich boy sounds iight too.nice summer jam

  14. New Music

    Crazy song from Lil Wayne: I Feel Like Dying

    He was on that Oohwee when he did this…

    Only once the drugs are done
    that I feel like dying, i feel like dying
    Only once the drugs are done
    that i feel like dying, i feel like dying
    Only once the drugs are done
    that i feel like dying, i feel like dying

    I am sittin’ on da clouds…I got smoke comin from my seat
    I can play basketball withe the moon…I got the whole world at my feet
    Playing touch football on marijuana street
    Or in a marijuana field…u r so beneath my cleats
    Get high…So high…that i feel like flying
    Down in a cigar..roll me up and smoke me cause

    Only once the drugs are done
    that I feel like dying, i feel like dying
    Only once the drugs are done
    that i feel like dying, i feel like dying
    Only once the drugs are done
    that i feel like dying, i feel like dying

    Swimming laps around a bottle of Louie the 13th
    Jumping off of a mountain into a sea of codine
    I’m at the top of the top but…still…I climb
    And if i should ever fall..the ground would then turn to wine
    Pop…Pop
    I feel like flying then
    I feel like frying then…

    Only once the drugs are done
    that I feel like dying, i feel like dying
    Only once the drugs are done
    that i feel like dying, i feel like dying
    Only once the drugs are done
    that i feel like dying, i feel like dying

    I can mingle with the stars…and throw a party on mars
    I am a prisoner locked up behind zanex bars
    I have just boarded a plane without a pilot…and
    Violets are blue…Roses are red…Daisies are yellow…The flowers are dead
    Wish I could give you this feeling…I feel like buying
    And if my dealer don’t have no more…(Ifeel like dying)

    Only once the drugs are done
    that I feel like dying, i feel like dying
    Only once the drugs are done
    that i feel like dying, i feel like dying

  15. Brian Thanx 4 These New Songs Evey week! Yall R Fillin Up my Ipod!
    #14 Sell Me Candy is the Shit!

  16. Bamachick

    Rich Boy is fire! Gotta show lovw to the home state man!

    Riri -loves it!

    Kelly- love her, not the song

  17. datdude

    Mos def gonna get the Ye album. Maybe one day when i get my act together I’ll let u CL folk hear my music. I’m still trying to find my own sound, but coming along.

    Shout-out to Mizzlizz.

  18. meena

    for some reason,I cant stand Kellys voice.seems to me that she’s has been listening to Aaliyah latley too…she’s kind of tryin’ to sing low like Aaliyah always did,but its not workin!Kelly please,you’re a beautiful woman,and your style is dope,cant u get into movies instead?I think that will work much better for you:)

  19. Peacekeeper

    I’m not feeling any of the songs. Kelly needs to get off the ghetto act and be the good girl that she is.

  20. I’m so through with Kelly Rowland, even a 5 year old would tell her that track is wack. “LIKE THIS” tanked, find a damn hit, I’m sure B-DAY’s leftovers are better than that, better yet, even Rihanna who is a newcomer came better than that! I’m THROUGH!

  21. D. King

    That Kanye is Fire! Oprah can’t front on this!
    Kelly confuses me with her music (still fine though)

    Rich Boy song is tight!

    Why not review Carl Thomas’ new CD “So Much Better”
    He Has @ least three bonus cuts & it’s a fantastic CD

  22. A DAMN FOOL

    That Rich Boy song is on point. Hopefully it can help him lose that one hit wonder status.

  23. WhoKnew

    That’s actually the European Dance Remix of Rihanna’s ‘Haunted’…the real version is a slow ballad which is 20 x better…the lyrics are sick though…real deep song.

  24. Been listenin to Daft Punk since elementary school. And I always wished sumbody would’ve remix…thank you Kanye!!! Woo!!!

  25. eZ

    Da rich boy tune is gd

  26. Dame

    D.King is Carl Thomas cd out yet? I am a huge fan of his. I like the Rich Boy track. Kelly no she needs to stop

  27. foreverafan

    People are crazy, I love Kelly’s new album, from all of the snippets that I have heard. Why is everyone criticizing her so harshley. She has a nice voice and the whole flow and vibe of the album is great. At least you can listen to it all of the way through and not have 1 or 2 tracks then skip the rest. Her album is a must buy..and I am glad that she doesn’t let people define her.

  28. WTF

    Sampling gets old and unoriginal.

  29. ELOQUENTANDFLY

    I PERSONALLY LOVE KELLY ROWLAND, BUT I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE WEAKER SONGS OFF THE ALBUM. BEFORE YOU JUDGE HER THOUGH, YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO SNIPPETS OF ALL THE SONGS OFF HER ALBUM!

    http://www.partypeeps2000.../release/Album/258/1.aspx

    HER ALBUM IS VERY GOOD IN MY OPINION, YOU HAVE YOURS TOO, SO PLEASE DONT ATTACK ME FOR MINE. I THINK PEOPLE ARE JUDGING HER QUITE HARSHLY, AND WANT TO PUT HER IN ONE CATEGORY. SHE DOESN’T HAVE AN ALBUM FULL OF BANGERS BUT THE ALBUM IS BANGING!

    RIHANNA…THANK GOD THAT SONG WAS LEFT OFF THE ALBUM…HER ALBUM IS FINE AS IT IS

    KANYE…DOIN THE DAMN THING WITH THIS SONG

    RICH BOY…PASS

  30. Sarah

    Lovin the Kanye and Rich Boy tracks
    Kelly why are still singing these silly high school girl songs?
    Brian post Sell me candy that’s my shit!!

  31. LadyCole

    I really like the haunted song…but not the house version, the original version of the song. i think it was released in another country but left off the american version.

  32. maybe i am the only one that isnt feeling rihanna’s album. i like maybe 4 songs and the rest just sounds like some techno/hiphop, gay club music. been tired of kanye for a minute already:(

  33. HotGAbiscuit

    That Rihanna Song Haunted Me.

    Her New Album Is The Sh*t.

  34. OH YES I DID

    #32 you’re right. This is the real version of the song ‘Haunted’ by Rihanna, bonus track from “Good Girl Gone Bad (Japan)”:

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/214918041c6251/

  35. get the f-- outta here

    concerning kelly—-get yall dumb ass outta here i heard the damn album. and that shit is banging .yall better get off that bull shit for you sleep on a great well balanced album. go over to (that grape juice .com ) and wake the hell up. cause her album is hot as hell no joke. and i don’t know why concreteloop is playing all these wake as songs. when she got bangers on there. anyway haters beware she killing yall asses..

  36. new yorker

    busta also sampled daft punk with the “touch it bring it”. good look, i like daft punk. not a huge fan, but they’re cool

    @shawnti i don’t like her album either. it sounds too fluffy for my tastes. i do think haunted lyrically is better than most of her album tracks. the rest are stupid. breaking dishes?

    kelly needs to step it up

    not a rich boy fan. i’m just sick of hip hop right now. seems so recycled. most of the new stuff coming out just doesn’t sound refreshing

  37. Jakia

    Kelly’s wuz not hot but WUZ the shit when I heard riYAWNnas hot mess of a track.riYAWNna is not cute and her songs suck like hell, she needs 2 bounce the fuck out.

  38. Shante

    All I got 2 say is, Rihanna NEVER EVER again.THAT was a disgrace.

  39. chris

    Kelly thats my nigga and plus she got snoop on the track…But that RICH BOY..thats my shit….plus he got my girl KERI HILSON…SHE DOES THE DAMN THING!!!

  40. Kia

    You should’ve posted “Cry” instead of “Haunted…”

  41. Jarrod Young

    YALL STOP HATIN ON KELLY YO. GO LISTEN to the clips like # 30 said. GO KELLY ROWLAND. By the way Album drops on July 3rd. JULY 3RD (fot the haters.)

  42. Ok I love the Kanye West song. Its hot and Im a daft punk fan so it only makes it better

  43. Always loved the Rich boy track. Keri makes everything great!

  44. rp

    Kanye didn’t do the sample any justice, leave Daft Punk’s shit alone if you aren’t going to make it even more hot!! Kanye=OVERRATED.

  45. pen and paper

    brian is not even going to post the real version, whatever biatch

  46. Player (" I determine my own destiny"----- Ciara Harris)

    Doesn’t look interesting……

  47. Player (" I determine my own destiny"----- Ciara Harris)

    Brian, can you post some new music of Sean Kingston? I’m feeling his new joint. they play it like every 5 minutes on the radio up here.

  48. MusicIsMySoul

    Kelly needs to stop. This song is not for her, give it to Keyshia. She does sound good though.

    Rihanna, this isn’t the original version of Haunted, it’s the European Dance Mix, and i agree the original is much better, but still not the best.

    Brain, should post up Rihanna’s “Cry”, next time, and not the European Dance Version, try to find the original.

    Overall, this was just an O.K. Review.
    Kelly 2/5 – Not a good luck
    Rihanna 2/5 – Not impressed, original is better
    Rich Boy 3/5 nice song, but who truly remembers Rich Boy
    Kanye West 4/5 – One of his best songs, prefer this over Can’t Tell Me Nothing

  49. MusicIsMySoul

    oh yeah that Sean Kingston – Beautiful Girls, is a really HOT song! Get up on that B!

  50. hey

    Kanye music is garbage now. He only sampled Daft Punk cause Busta had a hit with another Daft Punk song – Technologic

  51. yes

    i got the original cry, i’ll send it

    i want keri to put out some more of her own, i liked that happy juice

  52. SAY WHAT:0

    *Absolutly love Stronger, the lyrices the beat, freakin awesome!!
    *Rihana’s song, like it but it’s difently music for a gay men club. I can see them now, straight hardcore ball bumpin.
    *Hummm, i like Ghetto. It has a really nice mid-tempo beat and Kelly’s smooth voice pair’s nicely along with it!
    *I saw Rich boi and was expecting a slap in the face with a hard beat or whatever but was quite surprised (n relieved) that it had a nice melowish beat to it. Surprisingly to me, i think its a nice track (not counting the lyrics cause i wasn’t paying attention to them.)

  53. Can’t judge Kelly’s song on a SNIPPET.

  54. Chante’, my girl, “Like This” is acutally a hit on the R&B/Hip-Hop Charts, peaking at its current spot at #7. Things are looking up for her.
    I now refuse to listen to any song by Amerie, Rihanna, or Kelly until I have their albums.

  55. t dot stand up

    brian, u have 3 main descriptions u incorporate in each new music review.. ANNOYING.

    “doesn’t do anything for me.”
    “doesn’t fit.”
    “i enjoyed it.”
    …ugh.

  56. sk8teboihustla

    WTF? WHY THE HELL DOES RIHANNA WAIT TILL THE END OF THE SONG TO START SINGIN…!.I THOUGHT THE LINK WAZ BUSTED OR SUMTIN CUZ DAT SHIT WAZ NOT UP TO PAR…@49 DIDNT EVEN BOTHER TO LISTEN TOO RICHBOI…..KELY SONG IZ AIGHT BUT SHE STILL ISNT GIVING HER ALL OR TRYING TO MAKE HER OWN SOUND THATS ONE THING BOUT SIMPLY DEEP IS THAT IT HAD A CERTAIN SOUND THROUGH HER WHOLE CD….THIS ONE SOUNDZ LIKE A HIT FACTORY CD…NOT TOO PERSONEL NOT REALLY TOUCHING ON ANYTHING INPARTICULAR …ALL HER SONG TOPICS REALLY ARNT DIFFRENT FROM ANYONE ELSES..(LIKE THIS?…GHETTO)..IM NOT SAYING THOSES SONGZ SUCKS ITZ JUS NOT SOMETHING U WUD EXPECT 4RM HER…ITZ NOT ALL BEYONCES DADS FAULT KELLY ISNT THAT BIG…ALOT OF DECSIONS BEYONCE MADE,DID, OR TOOK UPON HERSELF.. IS EVIDENT IN HER WORK… FOR EXAMPLE KELLY PUSHED HER CD BACK TO THE 3RD BUT CURTIS JACKSONS CD COMES OUT RIGHT AROUND THEIR THATZ BAD ON HER END…NOT ENOUHH RESEARCH…I LOVE KELLY HARDCORE AND ILL BE GETTIN HER CD ON THE 3RD BUT IM JUS SAYIN THIS CD WILL PROBABLY GO PLATINUM…HOPEFULLY BUT SHE WILL NEVER REACH HER FULL POTENTIAL

  57. ELOQUENTANDFLY

    I THINK THE RESASON “KELLY WILL NEVER REACH HER FULL POTENTIAL” IS BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT HER TO COME OUT ALL BEYONCIFIED! LOL! KELLY PLAYED BACK UP FOR 15 YEARS, AND SHE WAS RUSHED TO RECORD HER FIRST CD IN 2 WEEKS! I FEEL LIKE SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE AGGRESSIVE ABOUT WHAT’S BEST FOR HER, BUT WHO’S TO SAY SHE DIDN’T TRY? I MEAN SERIOUSLY, NOBODY WAS REALLY INTERESTED IN KELLY SINCE DAY ONE, AND THE ONLY REASON SHE WAS RECOGNIZED WAS BECAUSE OF DILEMMA. I FEEL THAT IF SHE HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO COME INTO HER OWN ON HER FIRST CD, SHE WOULD HAVE BLOWN UP FROM THE GETGO, BUT THINGS DIDN’T WORK OUT LIKE THAT. NOW YOU SEE KELLY COMING BACK WITH A NEW MORE CONFIDENT IMAGE, AND PEOPLE ARE RIGHTLY STILL SEEING HER AS BACKUP EVEN THOUGH SHE SANG HER ASS OF ON “STAND UP FOR LOVE” I FEEL SHE NEEDS TO BLOW UP IN ORDER TO GAIN THE CONFIDENCE SHE NEEDS TO GET THAT STAR QUALITY. I LIKE HER SPIRIT AND HER MUSIC, AND I WILL BUY HER CD FOR MYSELF, MY SIS, AND MY BOY. HOPEFULLY PEOPLE WILL GIVE HER A CHANCE, AND STOP SAYING HER MUSIC IS WACK BEFORE THEY REALLY LISTEN TO IT, AND NOT JUST SCAN OVER WITH AN OVERLY CRITCAL EAR. I’M JUST SAYIN.

  58. 55. M*Music said:M*Music

    Chante’, my girl, “Like This” is acutally a hit on the R&B/Hip-Hop Charts, peaking at its current spot at #7. Things are looking up for her.
    I now refuse to listen to any song by Amerie, Rihanna, or Kelly until I have their albums

    >>>>> Good for her then, cause the site “BrownSista” had reported that “Like This” had tanked (they linked to an official article about that), but I guess people ended up feeling it.

  59. But I still want Kelly to do better than that. She should have had huger hits. Hits as huge as DC3′s hits. :(

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