I heard Tone Loc’s Funky Cold Medina on the radio this morning and got to thinking about how much the quality of music has changed. Chasing women and alcohol are eternal themes, but there’s an ocean of difference between Funky Cold Medina and T-Pain’s current hit Buy You a Drank. For one, the latter doesn’t even attempt to form complete sentences:
Imma Buy You A Drank Theen Imma Take You Home With Me I Got Money In The Bank Shawty Whachu Think Bout That Find Me In The Grey Cadillac We In The Bed Like Ooh Ooh Ohh, Ooh Ooh We In The Bed Like Ooh Ooh Ooh, Ooh Ooh
Compare that with this old-school prose:
this brother told me a secret on how to get more chicks put a little medina in your glass and the girls'll come real quick it's better than any alcohol or afrodesiac a couple of sips of this love potion and she'll be on your lap
As my college roommate Aaron would say, “It’s from a time when music actually told a story.” Sometimes, I miss those days…
del.icio.us/mbotos
