stak rs

It’s not often my girlfriend puts me on music.

Yet, the other day when she copped Haystak’s B.O.S.S. The Mixtape Vol. 1 with an old Best Buy gift certificate, she obliviously brought to mind my new jam of the week.

“Think About It,” a joint not previously featured on the bootleg version of the now essential mixtape I downloaded almost a year ago, reiterates both my love for not only purchasing actual CDs, but my favorite white rapper as well. It also sounds like a goddamn marching band stomping down the street.

Under Street Flavor Production’s tight high-hats, and over some bottom horns, Haystak relentlessly rides the bass drum like his 2007 F-150 pick-up.

“If it wasn’t for me/ These white boys
Woulda never been represented/ They never woulda had it
I held it down ten years/ They had to let me have it/
Godammit/ And you can put that on a ham sammich/
And I ain’t work this fuckin’ hard for no damn Grammy”

If I could write about this guy every other post, I would. Haystak is that good, check the polygraph. With hundreds of thousands sold over seven independent albums, and a work ethic equivalent to his haters’ fervor, I find it hard to believe some cats still sleep on Mr. Makmillion and his magnetic microphone.

Thanks for givin’ me the excuse, babe.

Haystak – Think About It