Snoop Dogg — Peaches N Cream

I am way out of touch on the movements of Snoop Dogg, apparently, as I’ve just learned he’s released an album every one or two years since 1993. He’s now poised to release his thirteenth album, BUSH, due to hit the proverbial shelves on May 12.

“Peaches N Cream” is the first single from the Pharrell Williams-produced album, and it is funky. Snoop’s style of rap is very distinctive, but when it’s thrown on top of Pharrell’s well-produced dance beats and Charlie Wilson’s backup vocals, it transcends into greatness.

The above video is the fantastic lyric video that was released last week, directed by special-effects wizards Wolf & Crow. And just yesterday they released another video for the song, this time featuring Snoop, Pharrell and Wilson, in a trippy, funked-out visual feast.

I don’t know if I’ll ever feel comfortable singing the words “Damn her ass is so big,” but I’ll be damned if I don’t thoroughly enjoy this song.

Weird Al Yankovic — Word Crimes

I’ll make this short, because everybody has already heard about this elsewhere. “Weird Al” Yankovic is back, and he’s as good as he ever was at what he does. Before OK Go, there was Weird Al, master of the viral. The 2014 version of Weird Al is no different. Beginning yesterday, and running for the next eight days, Al is releasing a new music video from his 14th album, Mandatory Fun, which came out today.

Yesterday’s video was for a parody of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy,” titled “Tacky,” and features many very funny comedians (Kristen Schaal, Jack Black, Margaret Cho and others) lip syncing and dancing to the wonderfully silly song. The video above, for a parody of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” is great for someone like me, with a real affinity for all things grammarian. I’m looking forward to seeing what videos come out over the next 6 days. These first two have been a real joy to watch.