Alright then Mr. Hypocrite, I thought you said you didn’t like hip-hop and such? Well, you see, it’s normal hip-hop, the stuff that is doomed to the top 40, that I hate. Australian hip-hop however, is something I rather enjoy. And further to that, this song is one of my favourite Australian hip-hop tracks. Released in 2007, We Get Around was the most popular track from Urthboy’s second solo album The Signal. Urthboy had previously gained popularity in the group The Herd (who also feature in this countdown *wink wink*). The song seemingly focuses on the effects of publicity and how everyone in the public eye, and Urthboy himself, tends to ‘get around’. A very well written song that deals with the topic at hand rather eloquently (which is surprising since it’s hip-hop), the song is made by the piano riff. That small run of notes repeats through a majority of the song, almost acting as a metronome in essence, but adds an element of class to the normally lowbrow genre of hip-hop.
The song features the general beats and effects that would be seen in almost any stereotypical hip-hop song, but the one thing that gets me interested in this song is the chorus. For some reason, the chorus, namely the parts “I’ve seen your photo, your photo don’t look a thing like you, I’ve seen your photo for a second I could see right through” seems strangely reminiscent of the tradition of hip-hop music where performers take a line from another song and incorporate it into their song, such as The Hilltop Hood’s do with Powderfinger’s These Days in The Nosebleed Section. However, for me it is these 2 lines that tend to incorporate a faux sense of sampling into the song (a technique which I respect greatly), and tends to make me enthralled in the song more so than I was before. And of course, he rhymes like an absolute genius.
94. We Get Around – Urthboy
November 23, 2009 by TJ
Alright then Mr. Hypocrite, I thought you said you didn’t like hip-hop and such? Well, you see, it’s normal hip-hop, the stuff that is doomed to the top 40, that I hate. Australian hip-hop however, is something I rather enjoy. And further to that, this song is one of my favourite Australian hip-hop tracks. Released in 2007, We Get Around was the most popular track from Urthboy’s second solo album The Signal. Urthboy had previously gained popularity in the group The Herd (who also feature in this countdown *wink wink*). The song seemingly focuses on the effects of publicity and how everyone in the public eye, and Urthboy himself, tends to ‘get around’. A very well written song that deals with the topic at hand rather eloquently (which is surprising since it’s hip-hop), the song is made by the piano riff. That small run of notes repeats through a majority of the song, almost acting as a metronome in essence, but adds an element of class to the normally lowbrow genre of hip-hop.
The song features the general beats and effects that would be seen in almost any stereotypical hip-hop song, but the one thing that gets me interested in this song is the chorus. For some reason, the chorus, namely the parts “I’ve seen your photo, your photo don’t look a thing like you, I’ve seen your photo for a second I could see right through” seems strangely reminiscent of the tradition of hip-hop music where performers take a line from another song and incorporate it into their song, such as The Hilltop Hood’s do with Powderfinger’s These Days in The Nosebleed Section. However, for me it is these 2 lines that tend to incorporate a faux sense of sampling into the song (a technique which I respect greatly), and tends to make me enthralled in the song more so than I was before. And of course, he rhymes like an absolute genius.
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