This was my favorite song off of a really great Kanye West mixtape. The “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” mixtape, released in May of 2007 was definitely a collection of the best Kanye songs of the time. Containing such hits as “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” Common’s “The Game,” along with Kanye’s remix of “Throw Some D’s”, this mixtape was topped off by the CRS song “Us Placers.” The song is created around a sample of Thom Yorke’s (lead singer of Radiohead) song “The Eraser.” Using this sample, the secretly-created collabo of Kanye, Lupe, and Parell formed the group CRS (a.k.a. Chicago Runs Shit) and created one of the top songs of 2007 in my mind. Although as many mixtape fans would agree this song is fairly old, it didn’t gain much attention until the music video was released for it just a month ago. Personally, I think the video is what makes the song 10x better (and I never thought that was possible).
No I’m not on a Lupe/Kanye/Chicago tip right now, just gotta post what I have available and this video is an amazing media to compliment a creative and unique song.
Cheers.
