New Music: Slaughterhouse x Cee-Lo - “My Life”

[N.W.A.]

I said the same thing in some other thread somewhere, its an ok song and I dont mind if they did a couple of songs like this, I just hope the whole album doesn't sound like that.

[Man1x]

Slaughterhouse gives us 2 albums worth of straight rapping and now that they have ONE SONG that sounds like it could make it on the radio you guys complain? Fuck outta here.

Songs can make it on the radio without taking so much of a 180, and oozing so much commercialism.

What worries me the most is, is there worse yet to come?

Yes, there is and they will force it down your throat even though there is probably a skip button on your iPod.

[Man1x]

I don't have an iPod, and I won't be buying the album if I don't like it

Like most normal people.

[12characters]

damn this song is too catchy. Not for cee-lo oddly enough, but Crooked's part in the chorus

[Man1x]

Indeed, do you know why?

This is my motherf*cking life, my liiiiife, oh yeeeeeah!

[Man1x]

Someone should edit out that "OH YEAH", get a picture of rick ross in a bathing suit, place cee-lo's head over Ross's, put a hood rat on the groin area, and make a small porno gif.

[Man1x]

I feel so good because I just know it will blow up. If it doesn't something is wrong.

[slimsoxshady]

been playing it all day...love it

[Kill You]

People don;t understand that you NEED songs like this in order to get radio spins. That's just how it is. I have hope and faith that their album will have better beats and hooks. The lyrics in this are pretty dope though, at least they didn't dumb themselves down in that aspect.

[dR3]

Budden just doesn't fit on this, at all. I like the hook, but not a fan of the song as a whole. I hope this gets them the commercial success they need so bad though.

[Epidemik]

Budden just doesn't fit on this, at all. I like the hook, but not a fan of the song as a whole. I hope this gets them the commercial success they need so bad though.

I felt the same about Budden.

I like the song though. I hope it catches on. like someone else said, I'd rather here stuff like this on the radio than Nikki or Wayne..

[SG.]

Do you guys think Crooked and Joell got the longer verses because Budden and Royce are already somewhat popular, so they let Crooked and Joell have a little more spotlight?

No. Budden and Royce are usually the last to record anyway (see Slaughterhouse Tour Ep. 5). Interesting fact: Hammer Dance's last verse was also going to be a Budden/Royce joint verse like this one, before Budden completely ripped it (see some interview).

[Kill You]

People don;t understand that you NEED songs like this in order to get radio spins. That's just how it is. I have hope and faith that their album will have better beats and hooks. The lyrics in this are pretty dope though, at least they didn't dumb themselves down in that aspect.

No you DON'T.

Yes, you really do. What type of songs do you hear on the radio? Catchy ones. Rack City is a good example. Terrible, terrible song but it's a hit. This song is at least halfway decent. You never hear crazy lyrical tracks on rap radio over dark beats. You hear average lyricism over mainstream beats. Eminem might be able to get away with rapping about whatever he wants over whatever beat he wants because he's Eminem and he's so damn popular. (3AM comes to mind, not a radio song but got some spins). Unfortunately the same cannot be said about Slaughterhouse. Have you heard Hammer Dance once on the radio? You'd hear My Life much sooner than Hammer Dance, simply because it's more radio friendly. They realized this and dropped a radio oriented single. I don't entirely blame them. This isn't the SH we all know and love, but that's how things go when you have an upcoming album and you're trying to be on top. I don't know a single artist who DOESN'T wanna blow up and make money.

Really man, I'm with you. This might get radio spins but this isn't what I wanted to hear from SH. But you gotta face the cold hard facts. The radio doesn't care for lyricism, they care about a "hot beat and a catchy hook" as Eminem said on Syllables. I wanna hear darker shit on their album. As I said I feel confident that we'll get a good album from them with a lot of variety. I'm just being realistic here. I don't even listen to the radio so I don't care about that all that much, but I do want SH to blow up and become big. I really want that for them, they are extremely talented and deserve it. I think with Em behind them backing them up they can do it if they do it right. Dropping this single was the first step. I want great lyrics to be popular and cool again.

[Amaranthine]

You don't NEED to, this is just the easiest option.

Substantiate your claim, please. Examples of alternative approaches that have been successful?

[AbramIsaac]

Watch it not matter anyway.

You could probably play 1/4 of Yelawolf's album on the radio, and it would work. Unfortunately, when presented with a multitude of options, Shady/Interscope failed. If Slaughterhouse gets better treatment, I'll feel good for them, but bad for Yelawolf. Fuck it, shit doesn't matter now anyway.

The song's alright, I'm about to listen to it a second time.