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Yeah saw the J2K tune. Big.

new Skepta EP





not bad. more and more american hip-hop influence on his style with every release. fair play to him i suppose as he's still putting out decent stuff.

Just listened. It's OK, but I'm really not sure what the point of this release is. Just feels a bit 'meh'.

agree. much more excited for a new JME project than I am for something from Skep.

Q, are you aware of the Logan Sama thing atm?
Been kicked off the BBC for banterish tweets he made three ****ing years ago. Somebody obviously kept the screenshots of the tweets and informed the BBC. I actually got a bit mad reading it.

Skeamz (producer, really nice guy) talking sense on Twitter:

do you know what the tweets were? cant find them. social media is mad, seems like something along these lines is popping up every other week. can't say anything without making someone mad.

Yeah, years old tweets that were clearly tongue in cheek jokes - https://twitter.com/industry_racism/...91915249512448

Crybullies reporting him and cost him his job. Also great news for young black Grime MCs who now have one less platform to help them achieve success thanks to all this.

If you know who Merky Ace is check out his Twitter page he's making some good points about that.

never heard this before

nice

Novelist album out on Friday.

Godfather 2 out 25th May. Wish Wiley wouldn't announce them so early, end up waiting for ages.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...ial-conscience

Sounds like it's shit.

Will get anyway.

Just another pseudo-intellectual MC who thinks he knows whats best for everyone and anything.

Beat selection sounds OK.

His spitting lets him down a bit. Imagine what Dizzee would sound like over some of these instrumentals.

Hard as usual.

some of my favourite hip hop artists regularly discuss topics that i disagree with

not sure why that should affect quality

Content affects quality. I can't listen to Eminem rapping about guy's balls or whatever it is.

And he won't be saying anything we haven't heard a million times before from much better rappers than him.

Just comes across as forced.

Some folk are easily triggered. Music is supposed to be a fun and safe thing to enjoy.

ehh agree to disagree i suppose. i can understand it if it feels forced though, i just don’t think that’s really the case here.

listened to the first half of the project, it’s ok. a few nice tracks a few not so nice cuts. looking like it will go down as an average release, not really worth going out of the way to hear if you aren’t a huge fan. will give it some more time though.

I think I'm gonna have to let that Novelist album settle inside me for a little bit. Still have to figure out whether I actually think it's nothing more than decent or if I'm just annoyed there's nothing on there like 1 Sec.

afro pick is a big chune and one of the best tracks ive heard this year

too bad the rest of the album doesnt live up to that

Looking forward to Godfather 2, but dunno if it will live up to the first one.

Wish Wiley had better quality control. I saw the track list for G2 and it has 20 tracks, so a few will be duds I reckon - https://store.hmv.com/music/cd/godfather-ii

Off the Radar pt 2 sounds promising. Pt 1 was immense. If Wiley was just a bit better at picking tracks, he'd have like 3 or 4 really top notch albums.

his last album was an absolute belter so i’m hoping for something solid although i won’t be surprised if it doesn’t live up to it

It looks more of the same, going by the t/l and features. So should be good. I just hope with 20 tracks there isn't a dud in there.

I was really pleased to see the reviews for G1, it was a strong album with no big mistakes on it, I knew he had it in him to do something that good. Snakes & Ladders was great too.

Have you ever heard Race Against Time?

monkey man recommend me some sets

and if by chance you know where to locate them and happened to slip a download link or two into my PM’s i would not complain.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qReDbo2fX4Q

That is good.

It's not on YouTube now but the Roll Deep Conflict DVD is like the holy grail of sets for me. On this set, there is:

Dizzee
Wiley
D Double E
Sharky Major
Crazy Titch
Tinchy Stryder
God's Gift

It's legendary, I spent about 7 or 8 years tracking it down only for it to go. If you type Titch vs Dizzee into YouTube you'll see the 'fight'. A great set such a shame its gone.

It's possible I've got the audio on a hard drive somewhere. I also put some sets on my YouTube channel a while back I'll link them up.

I've definitely got F Radio 3 and 5 on disc somewhere in full studio quality so I can get you those.

given godfather 2 a couple days and im still not sure what to say

a few very good tracks but much like on the previous project i really don’t care for when it gets slowed down with pseudo love making romantic tracks. just not really what i go to grime for and i don’t think Wiley does that great of a job with them. i can only remember there being one on his last album but there are multiple on this and with it being such a short album it seems like it overruns the project.

I don't mind his slower, more mellow tracks.

Sounds like he went a bit 'pop' on this.

Born in the Cold/Humble Pie/To be Continued/Grime Wave - great.

But I doubt they are like that.

I need to get the album. But sounds like it's not better than last year's. Was always going to be tough to top that. I had wondered if it would live up to it after hearing the single with JME which was just OK. Not as good as the singles from G1.

it's still an ok record, it's just like you mentioned, he had a huge record to follow up.

You got then sets yet Q?

You really should get F Radio 3 & 5.



These two were sick but they fell out really quickly.

Been bumping Trim today. Dope ****, not what I was expecting at all.

What you been listening to?

Trim is unique. More experimental, can be hit and miss but when he's good he is excellent. And he is great on sets too.

Tweedle Dee
Set Off
Monkey
Kanye West
I Am

Good tracks.

Sets=DJ sets?

I listened to 1-800 Dinosaur Presents. Loved the ambient aspect of it. I wanna call it cloud grime.

DJ plays instrumentals and mixes them, MCs take turns to spit a bar, live music. That video I just posted above is a set.

Nice. How'd you'd find it?

You might like Visionist/Terror Danjah.

>>>>

dig it

ayy, i remember playing him in plug with you and i'm pretty sure you dug it. glad you finally gave that album a chance.

Found it on the RYM charts. I'll check those two out for sure. I'm not opposed to grime, I just never get around to checking it out. Recs welcome.

They are producers so you may want vocals of their stuff. Instrumental Grime releases are more aimed at MCs and DJs, are not as structured as Dubstep is.

You seem like you like more experimental stuff that's why I suggested those guys.

https://terrordanjah.bandcamp.com/al...orph-2-hdb058d

Good release. If you liked the Jorja Smith track with Preditah you should like this. The Undeniable album (1st one) is good too, as is Dark Crawler.

Trim did a vocal of Dark Crawler it's on that album. All on that bandcamp link.