yasiin bey's "quiet dog bite hard." here's a link that works today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkThHiRt0mI
the version appearing on the remix album "the recstatic" has a brighter sound to it and i prefer that one but youtube didn't have it and i've already spent a lot of time deciding what song is my favorite right now (other candidates: run the jewels' "early", cibo matto's "birthday cake", blondie's "rifle range", aretha's "chain of fools", nina simone's version of "house of the rising sun" (note: every cishet white man who's covered this song is bullshit, except dylan when i'm feeling generous))
the arrangement is very minimal -- percussions and a voice. bey's voice and delivery are immaculate in this song, chanting till he really gets you in the base of the spine and you are going to dance. it is party music, it's quick and clever, it's jazz, it's drenched in the aesthetic of the diaspora and feels like a home i maybe knew once when i was seven.
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