It’s The Sweetest Shit A Nigga Ever Seen
posted by on March 27 at 7:30 AM
The Physics-Ready For We from The Physics on Vimeo.
I’d like to take this time to put up this awesome video by one of Seattle’s best hiphop groups, The Physics. I’d also like to take this time to refute some words on The Physics recently laid out by my man Charles Mudede.
What makes “They Call Me” so smart is that the Physics are not simply mocking the life and mode of the ghetto prince, they are doing better than Dogg and others who, track after track, attempt to capture the spirit of hood cool and smoothness. This is another kind of mockery, another kind of laughter.The song in question, “They Call Me”, has a hook that goes “they call me Nat-u-ral/dame getter, game spitter, baby/that’s my style“…not, mind you “that’s not my style”. The song actually represents the MC Thig Natural- he enjoys a drink, he appreciates the company of his homies, he likes to holler at young ladies he admires. Totally respectfully of course.
If their debut album Future Talk tells you anything, it’s that The Physics are everyday dudes. Definitely smart, that’s apparent- but everyday cats, trying to enjoy themselves. Mocking hood cool or smoothness is not where Thig and DJ/MC/producer Just D’Amato are coming from- this is in fact part of them. They are not pious upholders of ‘the underground’ nor are they ‘blinged-out’ commercial cartoons. They are regular joes and like a lot of us, embody a lot of what’s between these two extremes.
This aspect bears the indelible imprint of the Ghetto Children (B-Self and Vitamin D), to me the best Seattle hiphop group of all time. To misunderstand the aim of The Physics is- i daresay- to misunderstand a great deal about Seattle hiphop, period.
I love Zia's videos. That dude is going to be a key element in getting people interested on what's going on up here IMHO.
great vid, great lyrics, hot girls. but that white dude looks so awkward trying to wave his hands...plus these guys dont sound any different from other hip hop. But i guess that's a constraint thats hard to break out of in hip hop. Def Jux does a good job of it, though.
Show me...DEF JUX!
ALRIGHT!
also acceptable:
DJ Shadow
Del Tha Funkeehomosapien
LOVE it. That warm light in the darkness, blue shadows look is hot.
Dope song. Definitely feeling that ol' GC on the 1&2's vibe. I agree that B-Self and Vitamin were the best Seattle hip-hop of all time. That stuff never gets old to me—we were rocking Do the Math in the Wax Poetics office the other day and everyone was loving it.
zia's the master. gorgeous amazing videos
HD makes everything lovely..
Sync is off in spots..
Good to see 'em in a video, though!
A filthy video from one of the town's best. A real pleasure to see a well-done take on a more classic style of video.
do the math is STILL the shit, fucked tracklisting and all
Who is that young, female singer? Wow. Wow. Wow.
she wields teh big breasts
#2: the "white" guy is pinoy
and you are racist
@5
Do you by chance know what happened to my issue 27 of WaxPo? Still haven't received it--and I never got #25, either.
Customer service--it's important. Please have your subs person look into it.
Sorry for the OT post.
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