I listen to music all day while I’m working. It gets me through those long days in the trenches, slanging advertising space. It’s not much different from any other hustle, but I digress.

I mostly listen to hip hop at work. Some days I listen to jazz, soulful house, funk, or alternative…but I default to good old fashioned  hip hop. I’ve found that there are certain songs and artists that are appropriate to listen to while at work, and others that aren’t. I’ve been known to throw a side eye or two at people after listening to certain songs. Like…

1. Too Short – “Blow The Whistle”

Its nice to feel like a pimp, especially when I’m slanging advertising inventory. But the pimp vibe tends to go too far when I catch myself singing aloud “what’s my favorite word? [biatch] gotta say it like short [biatch].”

2. Lil Jon “Bia, Bia”

The ultimate fight song, which makes me feel like randonmly tossing my desk throwing a stapler at the idiot who took my stuff off the printer. WHOTHEFUCKGRABBEDMYSHITOFFTHEPRINTER!?!?! Bia, Bia!

3. Ice Cube “What Should I Do? (Taadow)

Listening to Ice Cube at work makes me angry at the system, even when if nothing in particular has happened to piss me off. Annoying coworker coming at me with another bad joke? “I don’t have time to listen to your insipid humor while my people are suffering from institutionalized discrimation.” One run of “AmeriKKKas Most Wanted” will do it to you, especially on a Monday morning.

4. Bonecrusher “Never Scared”

That supervisor working my nerves? Shut down. “Never Scared” may cause someone to get cursed the hell out (in professional speak, of course).

5. Anything by Tupac

‘Pac’s music stirs the inner revolutionary in all of us. Listen to one go ’round of the Pac playlist at work and you may end up walking out that piece and not coming back.

Speak on it…are there any songs/artists that you avoid when you’re in work mode? Share!

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