Song of the Day

Joell Ortiz - "Good Man Is Gone"
I've been playing major catch up with this year's albums. I've spent so much time going back and listening to older music for my Best Of columns, that I haven't paid much attention to the music that has dropped in '11. With the exception of Bad Meets Evil, Atmosphere, Reks, Raekwon, Random Axe and Lupe, I didn't cop much new music. I recently got Saigon, Pharoahe Monch, Joell Ortiz and Cunninlynguists and I've been mowing through those albums. Shit is nice. 2011 has some heat that's for sure. I had heard a few of the Ortiz tracks from last year's Farewell To Summer mixtape, but Free Agent is a nice album. This song is really dope. Joell spits verses to his fallen friends over a terrific sample that was also used for Gang Starr's "Next Time." I love that Gang Starr track, so when I heard the familiar sample it made me even more souped for the song.