​As we've already informed you, just about all of the shows that you were planning on attending this weekend have been called off. In other words, no Afro-Punk, no Ted Leo, no P.S. 1 Warm Up, and no Dave Matthews Band. After we collectively begin to pull ourselves together, put away our hacky sacks and fill our bathtubs up with water, we're going to need a new set of tunes to get us through to Monday. So, as an alternative to the Bob Dylan and Scorpions YouTubes that have been filling your newsfeeds for the past 24 hours, we've pulled together ten of our favorite rap songs that maintain some sort of connection to this weekend's storm, ranging from The Click's ode to Hurricane Malt Liquor to a Beastie Boys collaboration with DJ Hurricane and Jadakiss asking, "What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?" Enjoy these tracks while you still have power, and don't hestitate to remind those co-workers that "Hurricane" is one of the weak links on the mad underrated Desire.

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"Man I drink too much/I got drinks/Man I think too much/I got two brains." Theoretically there's all sorts of interesting stuff I could be listening to, but on second thought, I might just listen to E-40 for the rest of my life. The fact that hyphy never took off and thizz faces/ghost-riding the whip/etc. never rose to national prominence is one of the great disappointments of my life. E-40, thankfully, seems unfazed.

So inimitable Bay Area titan E-40 has a new double-CD out, Revenue Retrievin', featuring this surrealist jam, wherein Capt. Save a Hoe and some of his buddies (one of whose catch phrases is apparently "SHEEEESH," which, awesome) wax lascivious ("I wanna see you squirt without a soda can," etc.) over some expertly chopped-up Björk ululations. Cocaine Blunts, who conveniently whittles the two-disc monolith down to one, is on board: "I feel like a sucker for going for the all too obvious Björk bait, but the vocal treatment and the eerie beat switch really feels like something that she and her team would do. Droop doesn't just sample this shit, he studies it." Hopefully they'll all play Housing Works together soon. (Also: way more valuable co-sign.)