Songs of the Year - #2 Christian Dior Denim Flow

My first song of the year post was filled with interpreting and decoding Go To Sleep's lyrics and message, CDDF doesn't require such analysis. It's all the better that way. This song is a banger of all bangers that will rattle your trunk into oblivion. It was the masterpiece of the G.O.O.D. Friday series, which is saying a whole hell of a lot considering the diverse excellence of those songs. I really wish Metacricket's mojo was active when Kanye was releasing that weekly fire. It was like constant blogging material all of at least Sick status, acting as a well deserved (not really) reward of listening pleasure, after a long week of of mowing greens, from Mr. West as I'd head up to USM to sleep on Scotty's couch. G.O.O.D. Fridays reinvigorated hip hop. At the time we all thought these were merely MBDTF throwaways, that wasn't exactly the case, but you will not hear me speak ill of G.O.O.D. Fridays, and CDDF was the best of them all.

(Holy fuck. How badly does YouTube butcher the quality of songs? Everyone sounds like they inhaled 10 gallons of helium before the recording, if this is your first listen please don't judge off of this version and mmm word download the CDQ immediately.)
The greatness of this song comes with the hook. Kanye's decision to have both John Legend and Kid Cudi sing the hook adds to the songs griminess. Their voices come together and make it sound like the fucking apocalypse. The voice effect on Kanye's verse works perfectly in the mood of the song as he spits a laundry list of models he'd like to sexually parlay with, and includes a hilarious cunnilingus reference ("I'm tryna eat out so what we going to dinner for?"). After Pusha's verse the beat slows down to a crawl enabling Ryan Leslie, Lloyd Banks, and especially Cudi to rap over it. Cudi's verse might not even rhyme, but I say its the best on the song. He has smoked a lot of blunts in his lifetime and his voice reflects that. His smoked out flow and voice meshes seamlessly with the impending doom violins. I don't really know what else to say, other than this song is fucking awesome.