Like we always do at this time…

Just because I haven’t set eyes on my mom for nearly a decade doesn’t mean we can’t have fun on Mother’s Day. Make a playlist of these beautiful songs for that special woman today and she’ll cherish the gesture all year long.

Without further ado, I give you Rizoh’s hand-picked mother’s day hip-hop playlist.

Beanie Sigel - “Mom Praying” (Feat Scarface)
Saigon - “If…(My Mommy)”
Royce da 5′9″ - “Black Girl”
Nas - “Dance”
Talib Kweli - “Momma Can U Hear Me”
Kanye West - “Hey Mama” [Original]
Kanye West - “Hey Mama” [Grammy version]
2Pac - “Dear Mama”
Snoop Dogg - “I Love My Momma”
Jay-Z - “Momma Loves Me”
Ghostface - “All That I Got Is You” (Feat Mary J Blige)

You’re all welcome.

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Fader honors Aaliyah in its May/June issue, on stands now. Hip-hop notables like Dame Dash, Missy Elliott, and Mark Ronson also offered their thoughts on the late R&B princess. See their comments after the gap.

Missy Elliott

“We was gonna save the world. We was gonna change music every chance we got. We was gonna always be family. Forever.”

Mark Ronson

“If it wasn’t for Aaliyah being the face and voice of [Missy Elliott and Timbaland’s] sound they might have never got to where they did. They were presenting their sort of brilliant but challenging breakthrough music through this beautiful young girl who could sing it perfectly.”

Kidada Jones

“I think about her all the time…Anytime she’s brought up or her music comes on the radio, it’s sweet, but it definitely sounds like she found a niche before it was here. If you listen to her music it’s so relevant today, but we had it so long ago.”

Damon Dash

“She was already a fashion icon, she was getting into movies, she had already planted that seed. If she was alive today she would be so relevant. I see little bits of her everywhere I look, in a lot of artists.”

Jomo Hankerson

“I think a lot of that mysteriousness they talk about was just what she was. She seemed like she came here already grown up, from the beginning.”

[Shout out to Cornerstone]

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Directed by Wraithe for Kinetik Cinematix.

See also:
Killah Priest - Behind The Stained Glass Tracklist

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New Busta Rhymes
Busta Bus rhyming over some new beats, including The Roots’ “Get Busy” and Young Buck’s “Driving Down the Freeway.” These should hold you fiends over till July 1st, the official street date for his I’m Blessed CD.

Elsewhere on the web:
IllRoots Previews I’m Blessed

[Thanks, Langston]

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[Huge props to DJ Zap for the link]

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[via Necole Bitchie]

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I often find myself singing this while doing general cleaning around the crib.

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As I watch rap crews go into extinction, it’s always with some anxiety that I survey new music from old groups. We haven’t heard from Nappy Roots in a while, and I must say “Good Day” is a solid re-introduction to the Kentucky boys. This appears on their comeback album, The Humdinger, out June 17th.

[Props: hip hop update]

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Wish them luck.

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You can’t pop, lock, and drop to this. You gotta do the wop to this one.

See also:
Guru - “Who Got It on Lock” [mp3]

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