Nuclear Beef

Complex Abstract Hip-Hop Audio Beef Today. Mr. Complex travels to Japan and straight up kills it.

'Ima Killit' by Mr. Complex from his 1999 album Hold This Down on 7 Heads Records

Technically speaking, Mr. Complex didn't travel to Japan. I did. He just hitched a ride in my musical memory.

While I was in Kyoto (emitting CO2 like crazy!) my partner-in-crime was Chris, a musician and painter par excellence who I know from way back. Our buddy db was trapped in conference land so Chris and I descended on Kyoto like we was Mecha-Godzilla and Rodan. We're both very musical people and were deprived of recognizable music for days on end. So of course we started singing whatever songs would pop into our heads. Usually this doesn't work, because people don't recognize each other's songs.. but Chris and I are BOTH obsessive so it worked out great. He'd start singing something (like Prince's '1999') and I'd sing along at my favorite part ('If you didn't come to party / don't bother knocking on the door') and we'd have a grand old time. He even forgave me for singing along with the ubiquitous muzak version of 'Winds of Change' by The Scorpions which we heard everywhere.

ME: Chris, what am I gonna do to Japan right now?!?!

HIM: I dunno, what?

ME: IMA KILLIT.

And kill it we did. The night before he left, we all stayed up drinking, and Chris stumbled back to Boston bleary eyed and satisfied. Extra Special Beef Thanks to db, adania, Club Metro, Vibes Kyoto, Helen Merrill and various patient bartenders who put up with our drunk gaijin asses.

Mr. Complex totally kills it on this track too. A ill little janky piano loop and wordplay you really can't front on.

You hear this for the first time, you're like 'Ooh! The Beat!' /
Second time around you got up out yo seat /
Third time around you went buck in the street /
Fourth time you caught the rhyme and jerked your meat!

(I'm back in teh USA finally, though I brought a nasty headcold with me. I slept about 15 hours last night and am finally starting to feel human again. Dear Japaneses, please no more cigarette smoking. Oh btw, adania solved the mystery regarding the Daedelus Track I posted recently. It samples the melody of The Cure song 'The Walk.' I have also posted a remix of the Cure track in the update to that post.)