Daily Listen by Brian Brock

Fugees - The Score (listen to “Ready or Not”)

Barack Obama’s favorite song, according to some magazine, is “Ready or Not” by Fugees.  I think he may rather have been thinking of the title, with respect to his presidential ambitions, than of the lyrics, which I’m sure would consternate your average person for whom rap lyrics cause consternation.  If you listen past Wyclef’s verse, which degenerates into hooligantry, Lauryn Hill’s verse is actually a direct commentary on gangsterism in hip-hop.

Not too many popular albums talk about parallax and retrograde motion, though.