I’ve always found it a huge challenge to incorporate references to contemporary forms of digital communications (texting, blogging, etc.) into lyrics without sounding completely lame, despite the fact that similar references are abundant in other eras. Andre 3000 get in right in UGK’s “International Player’s Anthem” (“So, I typed a text to a girl I used to see/Sayin that I chose this cutie pie with whom I wanna be/And I apologize if this message gets you down/Then I CC’d every girl that I’d see see round town”), but Charles Hamilton’s takes this lyrical trick to a new level with “Windows Media Player”. It is absolutely amazing, both in sample choice and that he can name drop his various web domains without sounding like a complete nerd. Via The FADER:

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