Sunday, August 5, 2007

Day 41: Hot Jamz

According to Sirius: The best Hip-Hop and R&B. From unadulterated crunk to smooth R&B, if it's hot right now, it's on Hot Jamz.

My Experience: This really hasn't been a typical driving week for me. Instead of heading back to my apartment after work, I got to enjoy the rush traffic on the way to visit my buddy Ryan (a frequent commenter on this blog) in North Hollywood. Nothing like sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic with hip-hop blaring out my window. Was like a scene from Office Space.

Anyway, I'm trying to fit Hot Jamz into my overall taxonomy of R&B stations here on Sirius. For me, it was like you took Hip-Hop Nation, and just filtered out everything that you couldn't get away with playing in a club. If you couldn't groove to it, you likely didn't hear it here.

A Time and a Place for Everything: Seemed like this was the station playing in every bar back in college in East Lansing...if it had a dance floor.

Sample Playlist:
  • Mims, Like This
  • Kanye West, Can't Tell Me Nothing
  • Alicia Keys, Karma
  • Eve, Satisfaction
  • LL Cool J, Doin' It
  • Sean Kingston, Me Love
Verdict: I didn't add Hip-Hop Nation, so not very likely to add this.

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