[Listen/Download] – Wealth – “A Real BIG Hero”

Wait? Didn’t Listen Before You Buy already put up a Notorious B.I.G. mashup? This may be your first thought when hearing this song. The answer is yes but that one was Wait What‘s mashup of The XX and the poppa (and yes it was awesome). In the last month I’ve downloaded seventeen M83  “Midnight City” remixes and eight of them are good. What I’m trying to say is don’t worry about it and just keep listening, sure  Wait What‘s mashup was great but this one is good as well.

I’m not a big action movie guy, I don’t need shit blowing up and an unrealistic plot about terrorists and their nearly unstoppable plot to take over the Lincoln Memorial taking two hours of my life with a dull lack of character development and unnecessary one-liners (I was talking with a friend over this past weekend debating the pros and cons of drinking and watching UFC with both The Rock and Will Smith at the same time, the ultimate conclusion being it would be hilarious only if people didn’t think we were actually friends with them which I assume would be apparent by my need to ask the server how much my tab was up to after each Miller High Life I order).

I digress, what I was trying to build up to is that last week I went and caught Drive. Which in one long run-on sentence is a must-see in theaters, bloody,  suspenseful, 70′s throwback, with tense car scenes and most importantly nothing in the movie is over-done (Michael Bay is rolling over in his hundred dollar bill filled bed and getting nightmarishly tangled in his unicorn hair threaded sheets as I type). After seeing it Ryan Gosling may now be my favorite actor (I’ll say it started with Blue Valentine and his involvement in the incredible Dead Man’s Bones  but we all know it’s from The Notebook), sure some people may not like it and my heart cries out to them with their bad tastes and love for Jason Statham.

College‘s “A Real Human Being” which features Electric Youth is the closest thing to a “Love Song” in the movie which wouldn’t be my main angle on the track if it weren’t for how sparingly Nicolas Winding used music in the film, thus creating a more dramatic effect from each song, now each time I hear “A Real Human Being” I think of the movie and my mind locks onto it. I love the band but this is my least liked song from them, a little too straight forward and way to 80′s love songish for me to enjoy with dignity, but this mashup makes come across in a much better light.

This is the section where I would describe who Notorious B.I.G. is and what his song “Dead Wrong” is about but if you don’t know by now i assume (first off, that you have got to be fucking kidding me) you were born into a family whose involvement in some religious sect did not allow you to listen to rap (ie Republican) and that you probably were not made in the 80′s s so I hope that maybe this song, if accomplishing nothing else, keeps you from ever having to admit you don’t know who Notorious B.I.G. is ever again.

Wealth is of course is a Brooklyn native who cites his influences as being the movie Point Break and afternoons spent eating Xanax while sipping vodka on the beach, after listening to “A Real BIG hero” I can honestly say I’ve never agreed with an artist’s evaluation of themselves more.

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