.

Exclusive Premiere: Bassnectar feat. Lupe Fiasco, 'Vava Voom'

Listen to the producer's latest hip hop-meets-dubstep single

Lupe Fiasco and Bassnectar
Courtesy of Amorphous
March 23, 2012 11:00 AM ET

Click to listen to Bassnectar's 'Vava Voom feat. Lupe Fiasco'

California DJ-producer Bassnectar will release his next album, Vava Voom, on April 10th, with a spring tour to follow. Bassnectar teamed up with Lupe Fiasco to record the LP's single "Vava Voom," seeking the sweet spot that merges dubstep and hip-hop.

Bassnectar started working on the party banger on his tour last year, and he knew he needed to call the combination of styles "Vava Voom" before the song had even been produced. After trading tracks with Lupe Fiasco, the two got together for a few days in an L.A. studio to start recording the song. "[Lupe] was doing this crazy double-meaning story over the track, talking about hypnosis while waving his arms in the air as if casting a spell," Bassnectar explains. "'Vava Voom' is where life shifts into time-warp speed, but you find yourself in an almost slow-motion trance."

Vava Voom is due out next month, but you can stream its title track exclusively on RollingStone.com.

To read the new issue of Rolling Stone online, plus the entire RS archive: Click Here

prev
Music Main Next

blog comments powered by Disqus
Daily Newsletter

Get the latest RS news in your inbox.

Sign up to receive the Rolling Stone newsletter and special offers from RS and its
marketing partners.

X

We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners. For more information please read our Privacy Policy.

Song Stories

“Tonight's the Night”

The Shirelles | 1960

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."

More Song Stories entries »