Today's song comes via AM 180, whose link you should have already clicked on over there on the right. He offers up some great stuff: new sounds and a wide variety. It was there I found this:

Black Milk, "Give The Drummer Sum" (2008)
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Now, I may not have the most refined hip-hop palate (though I may be the first person every to use to terms "refined hip-hop palate"), but I know what I like, and I like this. Black Milk (no relation to Kids, Mountain, Lips or Dice) hails from Detroit, and while that really doesn't have anything to do with anything, I think I may be legally required to put that somewhere in here.

"Give The Drummer Sum" delivers on it's promise of plenty to the drummers. The beats are exactly what I want in my hip-hop: a hard beat in the foreground and vocals that are no more than another element to the beat. Add to that a little bit of Quasimoto-style pitch play on the vocals and some drama courtesy a horn section. It's a beaut, alright.