A Brief Review of 3 Dipset Songs

My friend Dan sent me an email titled "Important Dipset-related stuff that I'm feeling," along with the three Youtube links below. Thought I'd extrapolate my feelings toward each. Mind you, all I know about Dipset is that they like eagles and the color purple.

Disclaimer: These songs are explicit.

Song one, "Salute"



I understand that this song is about driving cars and enjoying the company of women. I enjoy both, although I've never really been into cars, so it's a bit unrelatable. The thing about women is pretty cool, though.

After a thorough listen, I do find that the content of the song and the image on the YouTube screen a little disconnected. The construction site reference seems to make no sense with the car-and-lady lyrics, and I question if this was intentional.

My favorite lyric in the song is in the intro, when Rapper #1 proclaims, "Do you think I give a fuck about sparkles?!" I'm assuming that this is a rhetorical question. Although, I imagine a scenario where, while creating the image for the default YouTube picture for this song, a commissioned graphic designer showed him a laboured-over image of The Dipset crew in a room full of rhinestones and scintillating curtains, to which "Do you think I give a fuck about sparkles?!" was the emphatic response. I then imagine the tired and disenfranchised designer just photoshopped them into a construction site (more on this later). I enjoy the "bass-drop" at :52, as well as the "New 'AIRS' on.." reference at 2:54, for obvious reasons.

FAVORITE QUOTE: "Do you think I give a fuck about sparkles?!"

Song two, "Raise It Up"



First of all, I understand that this song "Raise It Up" is about raising one's drink at a club enthusiatically. The song has a joie d'vive that I find liberating, if a bit sexist. The incessant beeping through the song stresses me out a bit, though, and by the end of the song I found myself biting my fingernails and a little paranoid that my phone was ringing. I hope that this condition isn't permanent.

Also, the "clap two times" clap-noise sounds very shitty. You'd think such a clap noise to be much more intense, but it sounds more like an invalid slapping his flaccid hands together.

Bonus: At :36, Rapper #1 says he's "makin' guac-." I love guac.

FAVORITE QUOTE: "Dosey-do, you lookin' like a lovely ho!"

Song three, "The Council"



NOW THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT! The compelling storytelling narrative of "The Council" is right up my alley, with all the depth and innuendo of such classics as "Incarcerated Scarfaces," but with a modern twist. This is exemplified in the lyric, "Me and my lawyer arguin', spittin' on my cardigan. I told him you straight carpin' em'."

Raekwon wouldn't have been caught dead in a cardigan circa 1995, and this reflects the vastly shifting fashion of the young urban male. However, I wonder what the fuck "Carpin' em" means, although the similarities between lawyers and carp are quite apparent. Another fashion reference that I find interesting is the "Hardhat boots-laced" lyric at 1:03. This makes me think that the construction-site image from SONG ONE may have been misplaced...

FAVORITE QUOTE: "...bewilder. Willie, I'm a tutor...Pay like a Pell Grant, pomegranate diamonds...."