Pitchfork Forkcast: New Music: Clipse: "Flashing Lights (Benzi Refix)" [Stream]

New Music: Clipse: "Flashing Lights (Benzi Refix)" [Stream]

Most beats get better when you put the Clipse over them. "Flashing Lights", a string-laden, fashion-obsessed highlight from Kanye West's Best New Music'd Graduation, has a pretty memorable beat already. DJ Benzi, who earlier this year brought you Lil Wayne's star-studded None Higher: We Got the Remix mixtape, puts Clipse's tangled wordplay over the "Flashing Lights" instrumental. The results make for a better track even as they show up West's lingering shortcomings as a rapper. While Clipse's rhymes aren't exactly fresh-- a line about Return of the Sith [sic] dates back to 2005's We Got It For Cheap mixtapes-- otherwise there's not much to complain about. Unless maybe you're a hugely successful rapper/producer who spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about award shows. Hear the track over at Vibe's RapidShare blog, written by former Pitchfork critic Sean Fennessey.

Stream:> Clipse: "Flashing Lights (Benzi Refix)

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