“It’s The Ride Of Your Life…”
GENERAL By TSSCrew on March 31, 2008 at 3:11 pmWords By Chris Smith
It’s Monday morning.
The curse of the working men and women worldwide. You find yourself fighting for five more minutes of sleep even as you stumble to the bathroom with crusty eyes, wondering how you’re gonna get through another week of copiers, cubicles and cornflake co-workers. So on those dreary mornings, I switch on the iPod for one track that is a set cornerstone to my daily playlist: “The Ride of Your Life” by Gift of Gab, one half of the progressive hip hop duo from the Bay, Blackalicious.
To be honest, when the album that this track is on came out, 4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up, I wasn’t checking for it mainly because I wasn’t sure how Gift of Gab would do with a solo venture. But this song changed my mind in a hurry.
When the song opens with the gentle strumming of a harp, you immediately find yourself immersed in the song as if you stepped off a pier and plunged into the ocean. “The Ride of Your Life” is really an intro, an elongated verse of sorts that still hits hard. Gift of Gab manages to deliver it with a sense of urgency, letting his words draw you in and relate to the struggle of just being and living with a purpose. As you listen you wonder if he’s going to run out of breath but he finishes strong and you find yourself mellowing out to the end chorus. It’s hard not to listen to this song and get amped up by it and have hope.
Anything to take your mind off of how much they take out of your check before you get it.
Gift Of Gab - Ride Of Your Life
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1st again
http://artofrhyme.com/interviews/artist/R.A.-the-Rugged-Man/97/ Greumsy Dirty Greumshit !
Don’t expect R.A. The Rugged Man to win an Oscar anytime soon with his new film ‘Bad Biology’, the story of “A chick and a dude that have really fucked up sexual issues and end up meeting with catastrophic results”. Sounds like the perfect first-date movie.
Every Day I’m Greumstlin’ !
Blackalicious day at TSS huh?
Another song that’ll make you feel good by Blackalicious is Make You Feel That Way
I been meaning to cop that Rocket album.Dude is a monster lyrically but he needs to lose the camo cap and get a long chain!!
gab is a beast… xcel is pretty slept-on as a producer, too. not sure why either don’t get more love.
with all that said, on TSS? wow… Gab must’ve shot somebody/gotten shot/gotten busted over the weekend.
lol!
yea chief xl is one of my favorite.
but I like the exposure he’s getting here.
He’s nice, it’s like a smarter e 40,
that can rap.
one of the best songs off the album,
with way of the light,
from the old pepsi commercial.
That’s a classic album, nice write up on the track, a fine intro.
Jake One’s all over that album, strange how his beats got simpler when he started g-uniteering.