Old people are cute, aren't they?

I spent the bulk of the day chauffeuring various family members for their errands and because I was driving, they had to listen to my music, which of course, was rap.

That decision to skip the Steve Harvey & Tom Joyner and play my CDs led to a few interesting conversations.

My uncle, who's older than Kurtis Blow if that helps you paint the picture at all, tried to guess who I was listening to. It was Curren$y, who to my knowledge, hasn't had a song on the radio since "Where The Cash At?" with Lil Wayne back in 2006 but for some reason, he sounded "real familiar" to my mother's brother.

He couldn't come up with where he'd heard his voice but all I could think about was, what spot was his old ass at to hear "Where The Cash At?" and God I hope we don't frequent the same strip clubs!

Oh, 2010! It feels good to be in a new decade and more than anything else I'm happy to be in the midst of this music industry transition.

Artists embracing new media outlets to distribute music is always a good thing for fans and this year you'll see that the FreEP (free EP) will become the "it" thing to do.

Sure, it's essentially a mixtape, but what an EP allows an artist to do is put out a taste of free music that isn't just a freestyle over the hottest instrumental but actually new and original music content.

Since the ball dropped on 2010, a few artists have already kicked out FreEP's.

Mickey Factz, among others, dropped a FreEP,  thedarkphoenix: ALPHA, to lead up to his long awaited album. Mixtape fans don't fret, those track-heavy, hour-long, hit-or-miss musical journey's you know and love aren't going anywhere. Just don't be surprised if you start to see five- to eight-song EPs from your favorite artist, instead of the 20+ track monster with remixes of every recognizable beat from the radio.

In the end what would you rather have? The FreEP is the future (well now) and less is more.

Now that Christmas is over and the only holiday still going on was created in the 1960's (sorry Kwanzaa), I'm going to need the world to act like it's not Christmas day anymore.

Turning on the radio after a shitty Christmas Day only to hear more songs about Santa's fat ass jetsetting the world only adds insult to injury when you know he doesn't exist or imagine hearing Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" after celebrating another "big day" alone, nothing "special" about that.

Think about the kids. If you keep telling them that Santa Claus is coming to town after Christmas day and they're going to expect him to drop by three or four days in a row. That's not fair.

I kind of understand the logic of stores playing holiday music while you take back all those unwanted gifts you got but in that case, why are the Christians the only ones to get in the on the act? I mean, they're my people but I've never heard a Hanukkah or Kwanzza carol, especially in the mall.

Then you have you're perfectly PC holiday season anthems. "White Christmas?" Are you serious? We live in the South (and I'm going to ignore the racial undertones on that song)

My point? They start sooner and sooner with this stuff every year, I was hearing "Jingle Bell Rock" the day after Halloween. Let's just pack up the holiday albums for the year and bring them out on Black Friday 2010.

You know it's a slow weekend when the movie Airheads comes on HBO and you actually sit through the entire thing.

What's fascinating about watching this flick, which came out in the mid-'90s, in 2009 is the fact it's so dated that it could never be made again.

Just think about how much the music industry has changed since then.

Artists aren't dying to have their music played on their local stations anymore, if anything they want to distance themselves from how mainstream and generally whack those stations are.

Pushing cassettes directly to music executives or program directors? Sneaking into a station to try and get your demo in their hands?

The second half of this decade saw the death of the extravagantly hedonistic music video but not the death of pure slut music. Here's some ho anthems of the last 5 years.

Ying Yang Twins - "Wait (The Whisper Song)" (2005)

For the man whore in all of us, this song was a great salvo to say exactly what she wants to hear. It's like the grown equivalent to "wait till you see my new toys" as a kid except this toy, hopefully, won't break.

Play N Skillz feat. Adina Howard & Krayzie Bone - "The World Has Too Many Freaks" (2005)

Sampling the classic, "Moments in Love" that we all grew up hearing on the Quiet Storm. Then add the woman who wanted a, "freak in the morning and a freak in the evening" in the 90s, urging to "freak her on counter, freak her on the table "and yeah, Krayzie Bone is just icing on the ho cake here, people.

Lil Boosie & Webbie - "Girl Give Me That" (2005)

"I know you want it girl, don't act like you don't want it girl, you want it just as bad as I do..." The ultimate sales pitch for "hoes" on the fence about the evening's endeavors. These two simply demand that they "give me that [lady parts]."

It's come time again for people to make trivial lists counting down everything of the past decade. The best and worse moments, things we'll always remember ... You know, that kinda crap.

Well, I'd be remiss if I didn't count down some of the Ho Anthems of the past decade because if I've learned anything from the past 10 years (8th grade to college graduation for me), it's that freaks just want to get loose. Juvenile's "Back That Ass Up" in 1999 spawned tons of songs encouraging the same behavior, even more, and no one seemed to complain.

Here's some of the songs that would be on a every two-way freak's greatest hits album from this decade.

Trina - "Pull Over" (2000)

Miami's Lil Kim told us early in the decade, what time it was. I mean literally, she said "ain't nan ho got mo booty in the butt,"  how could you not Woop! Woop! after that? This song holds special meaning because it was the first time I got grinded on for real, for real at a party. Ahh, 8th grade... good times.

Don't you hate this? "Due to unusually high call volume, blah blah blah ..." depending on how bad you want your wireless interent to work or that shiny piece of crap on QVC that grandma is dying for, chances are you'll wait it out.

Usually jazzy and upbeat, hold music is the country cousin of elevator music.

What if you called the Police and the 9-1-1 operator had to put you on hold, and everything they played was about law enforcement. The theme from Cops, The Clash's cover of "I Fought The Law" would send a certain subliminal message. What about KRS-One's "Sound of Da Police," I mean that's really what you want to hear, right? Since you're calling them and all. N.W.A.'s "Fuck The Police" and Bob Marley + Eric Clapton's "I Shot The Sheriff" obviously missing.