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I'll lay your soul to waste · by Sach O
3 cool people you don’t expect to see in the same blog post.
Tan over at the Assimilated Negro made a post comparing and contrasting Jay-Z’s D’Evils to The Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil. While I disagree with some points (that Premo beat is godly and those Jay lyrics are some of rap’s best), it’s a good read, ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-check it out.
He also suggests that a Hiphop remake of Sympathy for the Devil might be in order. Luckily, the Neptunes already beat him to it with their sweet remix.
Now on paper, I didn’t like the idea of the Neptunes fucking around with a classic rock song. There was just too much room for error and overly corny mash up level cheese. Luckily though, Pharell and Chad wisely showed some restraint on this one. For the most part, they just replace the original’s drum track with a nice syncopated shuffle which does nothing to harm the song. Then, when the subject matter gets dramatic, they flip the melody into an acoustic guitar solo followed by some well placed strings giving the tune a little bit of gravitas without turning it into some Axl Rose style spectacle.
The remix was commisioned for the re-release of Jean Luc Godard’s seminal rockumentary Sympathy for the Devil. If you’ve never seen this brainfuck, get on netflix and order it. Godard (one of my top 5 filmmakers and a crazy fucker in his own right) left France after Mai 68 (get your history game up young padewans) to shoot a doc on England’s biggest rock band, the Rolling Stones. Instead of delivering a tight, marketable product however, he delivered a slow moving set of studio takes following the song’s evolution from acoustic demo to full on bongo-assisted rock jam. Then he intercut the band footage with random skits in the streets of London calling for the rise of black power, the fall of capitalism and the rise of a Maoist state. It’s no surprise that dude pretty much became a marxist hermit for 10 years a couple of months after the film’s release.
Comments for "I'll lay your soul to waste"
word up on the shout. Just to clarify – I don’t big-up the beat or the lyrics that hard. I actually suggest the beat is not among Primo’s best, and that the lyrics are creative in the context of hip hop but pedestrian in the big picture.
And I think Kanye and nas should do an original song with similar themes, not a remix or a cover.
Just to clarify. peece to the gods and the earths.
— The Assimilated Negro Jul 28, 05:32 PM
As they say, the devil is in the details.
Ok, I should be shot at gunpoint for writing a pun that bad.
— Sach Jul 28, 05:33 PM
TAN: I don’t think Sach misinterpreted what you said in your post – you made it pretty obvious.
I think he just wrote his disagreement in a potentially confusing way by starting it with just “that” instead of “I think that” as a contrast to your opinion.
— David Jul 29, 12:13 AM
If it outdoes the remake of Love Rollercoaster the Neptunes disguised as No Doubt’s “Hella Good”, I’m all ears.
— sankofa Jul 29, 03:27 PM
Sacha I had no idea you were such a closet rocker too, I’m impressed. Now I’m waiting for the Neptunes to remake Megadeth’s “5 Magics” or Dokken’s “Breaking the Chains.”
— DJ Flash Aug 4, 03:11 AM