I wasn't planning on making my summer music playlists until the middle of June but...

A. I am so very over winter already. I'm done with the snow, the cold, the windchill and the freezing rain.

B. I keep getting newsletters on the fabulous spring/summer 2012 shoe and fashion collections from various designers and stores and it makes my heart long for the days where the white stuff is non-existant.

So here is some new music to add to your current workout playlist because music is a great motivator...especially when you'd rather be sitting your ass on the couch, in your sweats, eating ketchup chips and Skor bars instead of working out (so not talking about myself...yes, yes I am).

So today's playlist is all things hip hop with a little rap thrown in for good measure.

This playlist came about when one @slypigjeff sent me this gem of a tweet yesterday "Please don't use hip hop and music in the same sentence."

So his Twitter mission to annoy me at all times aside (yes I follow him and yes we're friends), I decided that it was time to expand his 'Journey and Faith No More' musical spectrum.

So get your best swagger going and immerse yourself all things East Coast/West Coast hip hop yo.