The Hood Internet is cramping my (driving) style
(Image courtesy of Toe Taps and Spastic Claps. Also, my boyfriend has that brown shirt.)
I’ve somehow maintained a perfect driving record, minus a couple of parking tickets and that one time I backed into my ex-boyfriend’s roommate’s Civic (accident…please). I’ve managed to keep the cops at bay, somehow, despite the thick film of dead bugs splattered on my windshield. I’m one of those females who, proud of her driving prowess, publicly abhors the inferior who do not understand that the fast lane is for passing, not for puttering along at 5 miles over the speeding limit. I don’t read car magazines, but I coo over the Maseratis parked in my best friend’s neighborhood.
I nearly killed myself on Highway 85 last week, but I promise it wasn’t my fault. Blame Snoop, R. Kelly, a bunch of Australians, and my hipster-in-denial boyfriend.
Anthony just got me into The Hood Internet, which is, honestly, a dream. Those of you who read Pitchfork religiously (I, admittedly, do not) are likely already familiar with the Chicago duo, which has built quite a following over its indie rock/ hip hop mashup extravaganzas. They’ve got the huevos to lay party jam lyrics (“This is How We Do It”) over what I consider one of the most quietly yearning tracks in the past several years (LCD Soundsystem’s “Someone Great”), and the aural acuity to make it work. Some of the tracks don’t quite work—-the Rihanna vs. Menomena vs. M83 song comes to mind, but perhaps I desire too much pop of my pop—-but others, well, damn. They nearly drove me off the road.
The first mixtape featured a mashup of one of everyone’s favorite AIH songs, “Do the Whirlwind,” with a Snoop/R. Kelly song I never knew the name of because I only ever heard it while drunk. The first time I heard this track I had a solitary dance-off in my car; luckily, it’s only 2:21 minutes long. Listen, it’ll make you smile.
The Hood Internet—-That’s That Whirlwind (Snoop feat. R. Kelly vs. Architecture in Helsinki
Check out The Hood Internet. They’re playing SF at the end of the month. I will be there. And I’ll write about it, too.
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