Slowthai x Skepta | Cancelled
Skepta’s horror creep routine here is almost undeniable. Almost.
Scorzayzee | Great Britain vinyl (& mug) pre-order live, now!
I don’t know if Scorzayzee’s P Brothers produced Great Britain is the greatest UK hiphop single of all time. It’s definitely a contender, or at least it will be later … Continue reading
Hutch | Can I Blag A Roll Up?
Proof that videos of demented youngsters chatting shit on the streets of Brighton will never get old. Give that man a round of applause and pay him with a bacon … Continue reading
Big Toast | Don’t Be A Tory
So, yeah. Our first post in a while. Old blog-heads don’t die, they get chubby and move to Miami. Or London, or Portslade, or wherever. And every so often they … Continue reading
Terrence Trent D’arbohze | Sign Your Nephilim Across My Heart
Fresh weirdness from the Glasgow’s II Tone Committee alumni more usually known these days as Mistah Bohze. As he says “ladies and gentlemen, do not adjust your listening devices, this … Continue reading
S Kalibre | Bat By The Door
Fun fact for the day from S Kalibre: Poundland nails aren’t necessarily of the finest quality and if you stick them in the end of your bat and then attack … Continue reading
Curren$y | Good Cop, Bad Cop
What you gonna do when they come for you?
Quelle Chris | It’s About That Time
Funny how the two most topical songs to have caught my ear in the last week are both older tunes leaked in response to the wave of revulsion following the … Continue reading
VVV | Bozo Boyz
Nottingham’s finest group of lyrical heavyweights Cappo, Juga-Naut and Vandal Savage continue their charm offensive with this latest instalment of addictive absurdities and cryptic glamour. Let’s have an album soon, … Continue reading
General Steele & Hakim Green | Ali Bumaye
Haven’t been keeping up with all of the Muhammad Ali tributes (there must have been a few, right?) but I doubt there’ll be any to match up to this. When … Continue reading
TMI Tuesday: The week Ed Sheeran was crowned the most powerful black person in British music
Another week, another doomed attempt to make sense of the hideous wealth of information out there threatening to fuck us up every day. Though this is my first column under … Continue reading
Top Notch Tape Tunez #2: Yomo & Maulkie – Glory
Tidy bit of conscious West coast biz from the under-rated crew who dropped just the one album on Ruthless. Produced by DJ Yella with Eazy E taking Executive Producer credit … Continue reading
Top Notch Tape Tunez #1 – NWA ‘Real Niggaz’
My posting up of Blade’s ‘Forward’ the other day got me reminiscing about some of the other tunes I used to bump in my walkman on my paper-round. You know … Continue reading
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