Uffie & Feadz

Feadz, "Me and Uffie"

Uffie, "Ready To Uff"

Uffie, "Pop That Glock (Curtis Vodka remix)"

I'm totally in love with Uffie, for real. I'm totally ready to uff! Wait, what does that mean? Here is the rest of the stuff that I have by her, all of which keeps the buzz going. The real gem is "Ready to Uff," where you get our girl going with the refrain "I'm ready to fuck" over a sleazy, minimalist electro beat. The Feadz beat here is bewildering at times, it makes you feel like you are dizzy or sick, great stuff again.

He's at it again on "Me and Uffie," which came out on Bpitch Control. It's pretty much an instrumental, although there is a few sampled Uffie parts here and there. It's a great example of how talented Feadz is as a Producer. This one goes all sorts of places in 4 minutes, the tempo goes up and down, the bass punishes throughout. It's not necessarily a club track the way Uffie jawns are (at least in head), but it's not a headphones-only tune.

Finally, the last remix I have of "Pop That Glock," this one coming from the studio of Hollerboard legend Curtis Vodka. He throws the kitchen sink here, from Baltimore club beats to 80s music snippets (not just any song, but Banarama's "Cruel Summer" from the greatest movie of all-time Karate Kid, the scene where Daniel Larusso is going to school and playing soccer and Alli is watching as she cheerleads). I like it, although it doesn't rise to the level of the SebastiAn one.

-Stop what you are doing immediately and head to the comments section

-While this focus on women and music is meant to be celebratory, I felt that I should post this amazing piece by Ruth Rosen at TPM Cafe. She looks at the treatment of Iraqi women during the present war by our troops, including recent reports of the rape of a 14 year old girl by American soldiers. It does a great job shining the light on the lives of ordinary women in Iraq, the sort of double suffering they must endure as Iraqis and women. As Rosen writes, "as detainees in prisons run by Americans, they have been sexually abused and raped; as civilians, they have been kidnapped, raped, and then sometimes sold for prostitution; and as women -- and, in particular, as among the more liberated women in the Arab world -- they have increasingly disappeared from public life, many becoming shut-ins in their own homes."

It's a sobering and sickening story, one that has not been told by the media well. I don't know what to add, really. Go read the whole thing, it's not easy but necessary.