Decomposition Podcast

Doctor Dre (not Dr. Dre) and Ed Lover are living legends. They helped bring hip-hop to the masses as hosts of Yo! Mtv Raps. They worked with Run DMC and the Beastie Boys before putting out their own album. It did not do well. However, the title track is a remarkable amount of fun. Cobbled together from bits of other classic hip-hop songs, it is musical Prozac. Who are the suckers? Who is Davy? Funky Santa! What did T-Money do? What did these guys have in common with T.S. Elliot? Don't worry, Katie is able to draw a comparison. I double-dog dare you to NOT want to hear this song every single morning, first thing, in order to put yourself in a wonderful mood. Unimportant. Enjoy our "flow," as we go over one of the most quotable rap songs of all time.

Zappin it to ya'. Castle sets, Mary-Kate and/or Ashley, power-mullet face dancer. This song really thinks its saying something. Spoiler, it isn't. It is, however a ton of fun. Loads of gibberish in too-long of a song, and Debbie Gibson may have been super-high. And she shared a songwriting award with Bruce Springsteen. The video is worth watching, as its off-the-rails crazy.

Fellow Mountaineer Luke Combs (aka Redneck Shrek) has exploded this year on the country music scene. He should have finished out his last day at school, perhaps he would have learned what the saying "When It Rains It Pours," actually means. Where exactly is I-65? Why on Earth would a Carolinian choose Miller Lite over Southpaw? Donna basically sings this entire episode, the dog gets handsy, and John Arbuthnot...whoever that is.

Keith Urban's almost-two-week-old hit "Female," is a misstep. He tried to do something constructive in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and just ended up recording a song that would have benefited from a rewrite. Instead we just have a pile of vaguely-related lady-words, benevolent sexism galore, and, obviously, no real rhymes at all.

This week we are joined by teacher, music lover, and friend, Teresa to discuss the ubiquitous 2014 hit “Rude.” Does Magic!’s Canadian accent improve the rhyme scheme in this song? Who is the rude one in the story being told? What on Earth does it mean to be “boys at the altar?” Why is this god-damned song so catchy?