The man, the myth, the head-mental: R-Kelly has just gone and dropped another ten episodes back to back of brand new Trapped in the Closet, his absolutely bonkers musical drama from a little while back. He’s brought back most of the characters from the first stories, and there’s plenty of the insane musical ad-libs that we’ve come to expect from him. This runs about 40 mins in total, so put the kettle on and settle in.
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Tell me this isn’t one of the most meticulously written verses of the year. 273 favourite, Homeboy Sandman goes in on the undercurrent of fear that permeates todays society. No hook, just straight knowledge. Produced by Brown Bag Allstars’ J57, and taken from the incredible album First of a Living Breed, out now on Stones Throw.
“We used to beat on Bush but now he’s not around / people found a different bush to beat around” < Homeboy Sandman
Another US/UK link up from his God Save The King album, this time Pete Nelson invites along the trio of Genesis Elijah, Mystro and Iron Braydz. I’m never sure whether videos like this work when the two parts of the video are filmed on different sides of the pond by obviously different directors, but the track is pretty good, and all of the emcees drop some nice lines. Beat produced by Dub Sonata.
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Some may have thought that chart success may have prevented Rizzle Kicks from going in on anything less than saccharine these days, but Rizzle proves otherwise by killing some bars over Nas’ recent Nasty release. This one actually had Nasir Jones shouting out the Brighton duo on twitter. Great to see. Strong rumours that there’s a video coming for this one too.
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We roll with the big dogs here at The 273, and they don’t come any bigger than 80′s comedy legend Dan Ackroyd. Official.
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I popped into Rarekind Records yesterday after a heavy weekend of over exuberance, and the homie HP pointed out to me the above flyer for some night coming up at the Concorde featuring some group called Bugs in the Attic. I haven’t got a clue who this lot are, aside from vaguely knowing the name, but it wasn’t them or the other artists on the flyer that caught my attention.
No, it was the fact that apparently, we here at The273.com are presenting the night. I’d like to state for the record, that we have absolutely NO CONNECTION with this night at all. I have no idea what the person responsible would have to gain by using our name – although, we are one of the hottest blogs out there at the moment – but like I said – this night is NOTHING to do with us. So if any of you readers were planning on checking it out on the strength of the site being mentioned as presenting the night, you might wanna stay away.
Just thought you should know, right. I’m gonna try and get to the bottom of this.
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Reveal drops a little wisdom regarding tomorrow’s anniversary of the London bombings for the camera at Edgware Rd station and gets escorted off the premises by a jobsworth station supervisor.
I haven’t seen Reveal for time. I’m pretty sure I was the first dude to get him on a track, back when he was 15. I need to dig out that copy of Koastal Revelations sometime. Dude had serious rhymes even back then.
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A little slice of tomfoolery from Kela and Stiggie Smalls in honour of this multi million pound fuckery that apparently happened this morning. I think this which I half inched off twitter sums it up:
We’re having a wedding, you’re paying. You’re not invited. Now run along and organise a street party in our honour. There’s a good peasant.
Menagerie Fam emcees Baba Brinkman and Elemental team up for this advert for dictionaries. Some dope animation on this… Produced by Mr Simmonds who I believe is leaving the 273 to go live in NY for a bit very soon…
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4’33″ is 273 seconds. Enough said.
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