Birdman's Always Strapped Remix 2

This is one of those bring-out-the-heavyweights-and-make-a-summer-hit songs, or "The G Mix" of Birdman's "Always Strapped," according to the intro. It just seems like hype for a message that's definitely not peace and love, but I still love Lil' Wayne and I dig Rick Ross's style. He wears lots of cool glasses and he's got an amulet that's a portrait of himself. Here he manages to make a baseball cap look dressy and Young Jeezy is bringing back the fat gold chains. Maybe now the ladies need to start wearing dolphins again. Remix Part 1 is more rhythmic and minimalist, which seems more contemporary, in a good way. Plus the video features lots of babes in catsuits. But Lil' Wayne's pants are pulled up.

Metro Station Does a Style Cover

The YouTube embedding code for Metro Station's "Shake It" is "disabled by request" and this probably because SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT put it up there. No big deal. I don't want to talk about the music anyway but rather the styles in the video. It's a real mid-80s melee of scrawny Ramones types (the face piercings are historically inaccurate and so is the vest with nothing under it), Rude Boys and Girls, break dancers in olde skool track suits, Joan Jett lookin' girlies with neck bandannas that are only worn in videos. Wow. Metro Station and their party people are doing a style cover but back in '83 Joan Jett was rocking the look in that special kind of spandex with extra sheen and covering the 1960s "Crimson and Clover" and that I can embed.