VATO'S 100 FAVORITE SONGS OF 2008
21. T.I. & Jay-Z ft Kanye West and Lil' Wayne - Swagga Like Us
"No one in the corner has swagga like us!"
Days on ****down: 15
Peak: 1 (for 1 day)
That beat! JESUS **** THAT BEAT! This is definitely T.I.'s best single from this era, it's 5 minutes and 27 seconds of pure hip-hop perfection, from the genius sampling of Paper Planes to the killer verses of each 4 of them, god! It's also a very special song to me because it will always remind me of my very last college days. It would've had no problem being top 5 if it was released only a couple months earlier.
20. The Last Goodnight - Push Me Away
"We can run we can hide, I'm just sick of all the lies, this is our goodbye"
Days on ****down: 12
Peak: 1 (for 1 day)
My favorite song from "Poison Kiss", I don't understand why it wasn't a single? Anyway this song is also very special to me because I related a lot to this masterpiece at one point, not to mention the music is awesome and also the vocals, listen to it if you haven't!
19. Monica Naranjo - Europa
"Mi sueño en la basura, eco de tu figura"
Days on ****down: 15
Peak: 2
Can I just say odd? This is one of the weirdest songs I've heard in my life. For starters it's over 7 minutes long, you have 2 and a half minutes of just weird violins at the beginning, then the singing starts and it sounds like an obra de teatro, then the music changes drastically to something slightly resembling eurodance, AND to top it all off she sings in 4 different languages throughout the song. All the weirdness almost kept me away from this song, but there was just something I couldn't resist about it and in the end it got me good!