Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Christina Aguilera taps Boston rapper for remix

When we posted Termanology's Premier-produced banger "Watch How It Go Down" -- on the same day back in June that Christina Aguilera premiered her Premier-produced banger "Ain't No Other Man" -- we had no idea some shit like this was in the works. The pride of Lawrence, Term has been keeping the streets red hot for a minute, but dude is in serious full-court-press mode now: if you turned up for the Rakim gig a couple weeks back you probably saw him parading with a deep sign-toting crew through City Hall Plaza; then he opened for Method Man's secret MySpace show; and now he's spitting a verse on what appears to be an official X-tina joint. Surprised? Well, us too, but we shouldn't be: leave it to DJ Premier to make the match of the year, at least for anyone who loves Boston hip-hop. (Respect to everyone else on the message boards and whatnot, but it's not like Britney's walking around handing out cameos to Ed OG and Smoke Bulga.) So anyways, the track: on "Back in the Day" Term raps about his mom "making love to Al Green," which was initially a pretty serious shock -- TERMANOLOGY IS AL GREEN'S SON?! -- until we realized he meant, like, she made love to someone else while an Al Green record was playing. Whoops. "I been in love with Christina since the moment that I seen her," he mentions later on, which is a nice thing for him to say, unless YOU'RE A LAWRENCE RAPPER WHO HAPPENS TO BE A SORTA-KINDA DEAD RINGER FOR HER HUSBAND (see below). More details on the unstoppable force that is Termanology in this interview.