2 Greats: "Get Ready"

Trick Daddy-ish* and therefore excellent-ish,
this song is about revolution. And castanets.



Written and produced by apparently nobody, since Google hates me. It's from some mixtape a few years ago.

*Or, wait, maybe Trick Daddy is Dead-Prez-ish?






Written and produced by Smokey Robinson, this one's also about revolution (love) and the need to prepare oneself for it if you are a young lady because he's comin for you, missy. Released in February 1966, when things like A Charlie Brown Christmas were new and Berry Gordy ruled the country like a benevolent king with a music studio even though everybody thought it was Lyndon Johnson who was in charge. A young man (age 22) committed suicide by setting himself on fire in front of the White House to protest the Vietnam War; Slick Rick and Dr. Dre were babies, both born in '65 (Aww, baby Slick Rick!). Anyway, things done changed. By that I mean that nobody protests war in a super punk rock way anymore, and nobody makes pure heaven like this and puts it on the radio anymore.
(Wellllll....other than Rich Harrison, I mean)




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