My MP3s A-Z

Go Crazy by Young Jeezy (featuring Jay-Z)

I first heard this song at my sister’s house in Vermont in the summer. It had Fat Joe on a verse. That got taken off. This is the song I have listened to most of all songs I’ve ever listened to. If my parents were home I would call them, ask them to go look at the computer and tell me how many times iTunes says I have listened to it. I will guess two hundred. After I graduated college I didn’t do anything and then my lease ran up and I moved to my parents house and sulked and looked for a job. I sat in the moldy basement where the new computer was and listened to this over and over and sent resumes to jobs I didn’t want and didn’t get. It was a rough twenty-third birthday that year. I remember I heard this in my grandmother’s car stuck in traffic driving back from the train station in New Haven coming back from an interview in the city. It was the first time I really listened to the lyrics. “I’m emotional; I hug the block/I’m so emotional; I love my glock.” Young Jeezy was using semi-colons. I missed college. I was jealous of my sister for having learning disabilities in math and foreign languages and getting five years to graduate.

Hustlin' by Rick Ross

God, Rick Ross is so fat. His eyes look like those goggles you wear when you go tanning so your eyes don’t get hurt. That’s why he doesn’t take off his sunglasses. For three days last summer I drove around Cape Cod in a white BMW listening to this song.