Left To Right: Black Rob, Rihanna, SA-RA, Huey, Gift of Gab
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
Today’s playlist is, dare we say, odd. Black Rob is out of jail and making music again. Another Rihanna song leaked. Huey and Lil’ Wayne are trying to keep auto-tune alive. Then there’s Gift of Gab’s collab with a couple more notable backpack rappers. If anything, the diversity of today’s Shuffle means there’s something here you wanna listen to. Get started after the jump…
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Well, it’s official: T.I. reported to the judge today to plead guilty to his weapons charges, and got formally sentenced to a year and a day (which could well end up being less when time served on house arrest gets taken into consideration). Clifford gets to voluntarily head to jail sometime after May 19, which gives him a couple of months extra to finish making the world a better place.
Needless to say, we’re making sad-face emoticons over here at Complex; not only is the civilian population losing one of the South’s finest lyricists and a genuinely smart and likable dude, but it’s just one more objectively great emcee who gets chalked into the “Incarcerated” category. There’s more than 20 rappers locked up right now, but since we don’t really fux with shermhead cannibals, we had to narrow it down to our 10 favorite (including Tip). For a look at the other nine, read on…
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