Rappers, do you wish some of your favorite artists had invited you to drop a verse on their classic track? Sure you do - but they didn't. However, that didn't stop Alaskan emcee Intuition from plowing ahead and inserting himself into some of the best non-rap songs of all time on his new mixtape, "I Ruined These Songs for You". Here, I'll let the man himself explain:
"I took a collection of 11 songs that I love (no rap music), songs that I think fans of any type of music would love, and I added a verse to each. I didn’t chop the songs up and flip the samples for brownie points. I didn’t try to make something new out of these songs. I just tried to leave the original songs alone as much as I could, and added one verse over each song to make it seem as if I was invited into the studio with the band to collaborate. All of these collaborations are, of course, unauthorized, but I tried to make each verse as relevant to the songs’ original lyrics as I possibly could."
In other words, this is basically the musical version of that Zach Galifianakis SNL skit where he inserted himself into NBC shows.
Download link and mixtape preview are below the tracklist:
(Soulful) Side A
01 Amy Winehouse – He Can Only Hold Her feat. Intuition
02 Mayer Hawthorne – Make Her Mine feat. Intuition
03 Raphael Saadiq – 100 Yard Dash feat. Intuition
04 D’Angelo – Brown Sugar feat. Intuition
05 Lee Fields & the Expressions – Love Comes And Goes feat. Intuition
Side B (gets a little weirder)
06 Ms. Dynamite – Dy-Na-Mi-Tee feat. Intuition
07 Portishead – Humming feat. Intuition
08 Atlas Sound (w/Noah Lennox) – Walkabout feat. Intuition
09 Low – Breaker feat. Intuition
10 The Black Keys – Psychotic Girl feat. Intuition
11 Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks feat. Intuition
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