Yw Pregame Playlist: 200th Post!

In order to celebrate my remarkable and inconsequential achievement, I'm wearing a birthday hat, and eating a cake with a lit parliament in it. Delicious. The loose theme of this playlist was moving, because I am moving to a palace. Turns out that there are a lot of shitty songs about moving, travelling, running, and the likes, so I just did me.
The first track is a very interesting jam session with Ali Farka Toure and another Malian guitarist. Farka compares (in French with subtitles) African and Black American music. Second, I have a video of Leadbelly doing a rendition of Pick a Bale of Cotton in 1945. It is followed by Toumani Diabate's exquisite song Tapha Niang off the acclaimed Boulevard d'Independence album. Next is Common's tribute to Fela Kuti, which would have been a great transition from roots music to rap, but I decided to keep it barefoot for a minute with Jack Johnson's Holes to Heaven, and an acoustic version of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's hit Maps. We have a very long rendition of Campo by Yerbabuena, which is probably the best contemporary Nuyorican fusion band. Jorge Ben's Take it Easy My Brother Charlie and Elvis Crespo's sauvamente close out the world music smorgessbourg, and we get into some travel-based rap by Mos, Lupe, Luda, Clipse, LL Cool Gay, and Adam Tensta. Before all that, however, I threw in Somali rapper K'naan's track Somalia, as it is awesome. Homey is doing big things these days, and in an age of robot music and flashing lights, he has a refreshing take on hip hop. I keep the Tron in my name by closing it out with a few certified, very popular club bangers by Daft Punk, Simian Mobile Disco, Justice and MSTRKRFT (thats like the quadrafecta of electro thugging).
See me, a travers le monde. The tracklisting is below the embedded playlist and here is the direct link. Catch you on the flip.

1) Ali Farka Toure- Jam Session
2) Leadbelly- Pick a Bale of Cotton
3) Touani Diabate- Tapha Niang
4) Common- Time Travellin'
5) Jack Johnson- Holes to Heaven
6) Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps (acoustic)
7) Yerbabuena- Campo
8) Jorge Ben- Take it Easy my Brother Charlie
9) Elvis Crespo- Sauvamente
10)K'naan- Somalia
11)Mos Def featuring DJ Honda- Travellin' Man
12)Lupe Fiasco- Paris Tokyo
13)Ludacris featuring Bobby Valentiono- Pimpin' All Over the World
14)Clipse- Gangsta Lean
15)LL Cool J- Going Back to Cali
16)Adam Tensta-Back Before You Know It
17)Daft Punk- Around The World
18)Simian Mobile Disco- Love
19)Justice vs. Simian- We Are Your Friends
20)Metric- Monster Hospital (MSTRKFT Remix)