Tracking 2012′s Best Songs #16

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This week on Tracking––a weekly series in which we discuss our favorite songs of the year (you can check out the official list as the year progresses)––you can listen to additions from Kanye West, Lykke Li, Blur, Tame Impala and Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. (Click on the arrows to navigate through the songs.)

Kanye West New God Flow Tracking 2012s Best Songs #16

Kanye West & Pusha T: “New God Flow” (1 of 5)

Kanye West used to drop new jams churned out of his production factory GOOD Music on the regular, sometimes on Twitter, with little ceremony, but his latest single “New God Flow,” a collaboration with Pusha T, apparently merited a little more buildup, and with good reason – it’s one of the best tracks we’ve heard from the label or even from West himself in a long time, what with that forceful, pounding beat and scathingly witty wordplay as Pusha and Ye sum up exactly what it means to be living the rap dream (Pusha’s all about the Balmain rhyming with Grand Marnier; Ye insists on remembering where one came from; somehow it works out). The whole thing ends with a schoolyard-y chant over a massive drumline beat, but it’s that first line that’ll stay with you: “I believe there’s a god above me, I’m just the god of everything else.”

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