久しぶりにこのコーナーです。
ファイヴィオ・フォーリン（Fivio Foreign）がカニエ・ウェスト（Kanye West）とアリシア・キーズ（Alicia Keys）とともに名曲「City of Gods」でコラボレートを果たしたのは記憶に新しいですが、この曲には元ネタがあり、ザ・チェインスモーカーズ（The Chainsmokers）というEDMの救世主、グラミー賞ダンスミュージック部門でも受賞した３人組ユニットが出した「New York City」という楽曲が、そもそも大元の元ネタなのでした。それを新しい「City of Gods」とあわせて、以下に掲載しておきます。
まずはFivio Foreign feat. Kanye West & Alicia Keysバージョンから。
[Chorus: Kanye West]
I think I got mixed personalities
This bitch switched up my whole mentality
This girl, she got mixed personalities
One day she’s happy, then she mad at me
[Post-Chorus: YNW Melly]
Say you want someone that’ll love you
Someone who could please you
Someone who can kiss on and rub you
Fuck you like this, fuck you like that
[Verse 1: Kanye West & YNW Melly]
Oh, now, I got mixed personalities
She got me stressin’, singin’ melodies
For her, I swear I’d catch a felony
Oh, Penelope
[Verse 2: YNW Melly]
I swear to God, this girl be trippin’, dawg
One day she Blooded, then she Crippin’, dawg
You know I put it in the kittens, dawg
She screamin’ out, she need some liftin’, aw
She blockin’, ignorin’ my calls (Blockin’, ignorin’ my calls)
She keep on blockin’, ignorin’ my calls (Blockin’, ignorin’ my calls)
I’m all inside her, I’ll knock down her walls (Knock ’em down, boom)
This bitch is hyper, need some Adderall (Oh, no)
[Chorus: Kanye West]
I think I got mixed personalities
This bitch switched up my whole mentality
This girl, she got mixed personalities
One day she’s happy, then she mad at me
[Post-Chorus: YNW Melly]
Say you want someone that’ll love you
Someone who could please you
Someone who can kiss on and rub you
Fuck you like this, fuck you like that
[Verse 3: YNW Melly]
Oh, Lord, I ain’t never been here before, oh, no
Oh, keep pressin’ ignore, oh, no
She keep ignorin’ my calls and blockin’ me on everything
Bitch, oh, no
Oh, and it’s my fault, mmm
I got the keys to the lil’ bitch heart and you can’t get the vault (Yeah)
Better go get a locksmith, better go get your Glock, bitch
Pull up on mothafuckin’ opp if he playin’ with my Slime
That’s my boo, that’s my Slime, that’s my everything (Everything)
That’s my bitch forever, don’t need no wedding ring (Wedding ring)
I’ll give her the world, polka dots on her new pajamas
Take the bitch out to Bahamas, let the ho eat at Benihana (Benihana)
Matter of fact, ain’t tryna meet your mama (Meet her mama)
Dick her down, that the other way (All the way)
Dick her down, yeah, the other way (Right way)
Dick her down, yeah, the Thugger way (Thugger way)
Knockin’ on your door (Door), tryna give your love (Love, love)
You keep tellin’ me (Love), you don’t give a fuck (Fuck, fuck)
[Bridge: YNW Melly]
You won’t find nobody that can fuck you like I fuck you, babe
You won’t find nobody that can fuck you like I fuck you, babe
You won’t find nobody that can fuck you like I fuck you, babe
Young Nigga World and I got the young nigga wave
[Chorus: Kanye West & YNW Melly]
I think I got mixed personalities
This bitch switched up my whole mentality
This girl, she got mixed personalities
One day she’s happy, then she mad at me
このコーナーでは，カニエ・ウェストが人の曲にヴァース（歌詞）を提供している曲を紹介します。
本日ご紹介する楽曲は，Ghostface Killah feat. Ne-Yo & Kanye West で「Back Like That (Remix)」です。
[Verse: Kanye West]
I’m high powered, put Eva Mendes to sleep
Yo pardon, that bitch been on my mind all week
But back to you, MAC gloss chick, you’re way fit
How you have everything in this world and waste it
Prince told me it’ll be okay
I’m so sick like Ne-Yo say
I’m laid back, like neo-soul
I holla back at this Creole ho
She from the N.O., but she never told me “N-O” so
We at the spot to chill, where the food get grilled
She ordered the Kobe beef like Shaquille O’Neal
Second I walked in, the whole room got still
I don’t know how to put this, but I’m kind of a big deal
And she conceited, she got a reason
She got her hair did, she got her weave in
And I’mma sweat that out by the evening
You, I don’t sweat that now, I got a new
原曲のヴァースです。
I’m high-powered put Adina Howard to sleep
Yo pardon, that bitch been on my mind all week
Back to you Maybeline Queen let’s make a team
You can have anything in this world except C.R.E.A.M
精力アゲアゲ，俺とヤり過ぎで，アディーナ・ハワードもクタクタ
失礼しやした，今週ずっとカノジョが頭から離れない
でもキミはコスメの女王，俺と一緒にチームを組もうぜ
世のどんなものでもあげちゃうよ，C.R.E.A.M(Cash Rules Everything Around Me)以外はね
こちらが現代によみがえる，カニエ・ウェスト版です。
I’m high powered, put Eva Mendes to sleep
Yo pardon, that bitch been on my mind all week
But back to you, MAC gloss chick, you’re way fit
How you have everything in this world and waste it
こういう風に「元ネタの曲から一部の歌詞をもじる」というのは，実際ヒップホップを常日頃から聴き込んでいる人でないと，気づかないものです。現代の曲に，さりげなく（subtle）昔の曲をほのめかしている，というのは，常に明示的（clear cut）で，なんでも堂々と（in your face）はっきり見せるアメリカでは珍しいことです。カニエ・ウェストはシカゴ市の芸術大学を卒業していますが，和にも通ずる日本的なこの「さりげなさ（subtlety）」というのを曲中にちりばめている，というのは，アメリカの芸術もだんだんと変わってきたことを示しています。いままではアメリカでは白人が大多数（majority）を占めていましたが，現在はそれが逆転し始めている州も出てきております。これまで通例と思われてきた「白人のアメリカ」というイメージや，「明示的で，大きくて，わかりやすく，堂々としたものが一番良い」と当然のように思われてきたアメリカが変わりつつあります。そうした中で，カニエ・ウェストに共感するアメリカ人が増えてきたのも確かです。トランプ大統領がここまで不人気なのもうなずけます。もしもこれが１９９０年代であれば，トランプ大統領の支持率もここまでは低くはなかったはずです。また，カニエ・ウェストもここまで受け入られてなかったでしょう。
ますます多様・多彩化（diversify）する現代のアメリカで，多民族・多人種が「共感しあえる同じ土壌」（empathic common ground）を見つけるというのはとても大切なことであるはずです。その「共感しあえる同じ土壌」のひとつがカニエ・ウェストの音楽であっても良いと思うのです。
Oh, they got it all you can see they got it all
They got the cars, the boat and the beautiful house by the shore
And you know there’s more
But I can’t take another minute of it at all
He wants his kids and the dog, he wants his breakfast in bed
He’s got his trust fund saved, not a worry in his head
It’s not you, homie
I wanna break up the scene and see you running back to me
Cause I feel like taking off, let me be your supernova
Before you make the biggest mistake of your life
Just give me the chance to get it right, get it right
Yeah, I feel like taking off, let me be your supernova tonight
Before you make the biggest mistake of your life
Just give me the chance to get it right, get it right
Uhh, and don’t be tryna come around my girl
Acting like Mr. Friendly
And steal the spotlight like Mr. Bentley
I spotted her like Spud McKenzie
And for them fake boobies I paid them Benjies, get your own
I got Paris, he got Nicky, he tried to get em a clone
He said, “Ye you know you got extra hoes
And everything you do is extra cold”
From the Polo fleece to the Jesus piece
I got family in high places like Jesus’ niece
Can I please, say my peace?
If y’all fresh to death, then I’m deceased
And this one here is a heatrocks, spit like a beat box
The way the beat rocks, new version of Pete Rock
But for that Benz, I get CL love
So I switch my girls around like 3L-dub, I’m calling
