VJ Samsonite's "Hot New Music" song of the day is....

...Bonkers (with Armand Van Helden), by London, U.K. rapper Dizzee Rascal. Dizzee has partnered up with the legendary American DJ/producer Armand Van Helden on this track (which incidentally reached #1 on the U.K. singles chart in 2009).  I have posted a song by "the Diz" a few weeks back, but as I said then there will be more posted by him as he is an excellent new electro-rap artist. This song is one of the three #1 hits that comes off of his Tongue N' Cheek album (released in September of 2009), along with my earlier post of the song Dance Wiv Me. The 3rd hit will be posted here at a later date, so stay tuned or just go check out the album yourself!  

VJ Samsonite's "Hot New Music" song of the day is....

...Enter Galactic (Love Connection Part I), by U.S. rapper, singer, and actor Kid CuDi (who hails out of Cleveland, Ohio). Enter Galactic comes off of CuDi's 2009 release album titled,  Man on the Moon: The End of the Day. Kid CuDi seems to me to fall into a similar vein as U.K. rapper Dizzee Rascal as he blends his rap with synth-beats and blips that make a wonderful blend of synth-rap or synth-hop??? Is that a genre, why not? We seem to create new music genres and terms every day, that way we can put each artist and song into a neat little box and call it whatever we so desire. But music isn't that simple is it? Anyways, Kid CuDi is not that well known in the U.S. for some reason despite being a clear leader and artist in this genre. In fact I don't understand why this isn't on the radio here in the U.S.A., but again my conclusion is that it falls back onto the fact that most radio stations here are all owned by the same people, and they pick and choose the same repetitive loops to play and if great artists like Kid CuDi (or Dizzee Rascal for that matter) don't make their cut then they just don't get played. This is a shame, because there is so much great new music out there that just isn't getting hardly any airtime, and that is partly what inspired me to do these New Music posts on this blog, in the hopes of giving further exposure to  these new music and artists, and to increase their circulation a bit and get on the airwaves. Whether that happens or not is up to those few in the end. Oh well, I believe I've ranted on just about enough there, asi que, sin más, aqui esta Kid CuDi.....