REVIEWS Hip-Hop
QUICKIES Neil Kul
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Interscope Snoop’s rapped over since
‘Deep Cover’ and a damn
Squid Ninjaz
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Wowzers sub-labelled as a ‘UK piece to the soon-come
Squid Ninjaz be one of the highlights you should be Profisee Bonus Track’ — ain’t we ‘Malice In Wonderland’ LP.
digging right now. Zoning lucky! There’s the rest of
Squalid ‘ssential shit — been Cloak & Dagger the world, going about U-God
waiting/anticipating the latest O.C & A.G their day avoiding Fiddy, Wu Tang
transmission from Metabeats (after Keep It Going Profisee hooks up with San Fran produc- and there’s us given this Babygrande
last year’s phenomenal ‘Metaphysi- DITC/Nature Sounds er Ephrom for five tracks of heavy-assed, barrel o’ bollocks to play
cal’ LP) and this doesn’t disappoint. floorboard-rattling bass tectonics, with! Cheers Interscope, One of the definite
More mentalist mic maelstroms from A real strange loop is at the heart of the overlapping waves of sick lo-end you rule! highlights from the patchy
Barry Town courtesy of Joe Blow, this — would love to know where it’s culminating into what sounds like metal ‘Dopium’, ‘Wu Tang’ sees
Lousain and Ming, and the man Meta culled from but it sounds like an offcut velcro being ripped off a robot’s balls. Curren$y UG hook up with Meth over
punching the whole thing together from the Fleetwood Mac ‘Tusk’ sessions, Can’t say that this sound can actually Breakfast (In & Out) some slambanging Coup-
with rock solid smoky beats and a rotated in on itself until every facet of it keep you enthralled for a whole EP but Amalgam Digital heavy funk. A record not
bass so mono-manically insistent shines through in glimmering moebius s’worth it just to have ‘What It Seems’ in just to play loud. A record
it lodges in your skull. The album relief. Brilliant verbals as you’d expect your trunk, an irresistibly squelchy slam Mos Def behind the desk to actually aim at people
‘Revenge of The Blowfish’ is just as from these two veterans. Heroes still ill. to the senses that sounds like Bernie here and what a wonderful like an assault weapon.
compelling. Don’t sleep on this. Worrell adrift in the k-hole.
Ruste Juxx
My Block KRS-1 & Buckshot
Foreign Beggars Duck Down Survival Skills
Seven Figure Swagger/Don’t NA
Dhoow It High hopes for this as he’s a pal of the
Dented mighty Sean Price. Slightly under- Great to see all these veterans return
whelmed by the overly pristine produc- this issue — makes a pensionable
‘Seven Figure Swagger’ gets boiled tion but as soon as RJ starts swinging b-boy feel a little less alone. A little too
down by Bar 9 into vicious heavy-hitting with his murderously menacing verbals much effort here to force the hook but
electro-funk peppered with what I can things start clicking into place. Nothing the verses are fantastic, Kris & Buck
only call digi-jazz aggravation on an here to stand up to his buddy’s greatest swapping rhymes over a hard-hitting
almost evil scale. Hear it. On the flip, the work but still as close as mainstream minimalist boombap beat, somewhere
Machinedrum tweak of ‘Don’t Dhoow US hip-hop gets this issue to actually between Premo & RZA-style oddity.
It’ hits you in the middle with a heavy sounding threatening (rather than As someone who’s spent much of the
kick but leaves your peripheries in the simply tiresome). Rare grooves. recent month sunk in the depths of
SKANDAL HALAL BEATS/KILAMANJARO RECORDS
wayward slipstream of shredded vocals, ‘Enta Da Stage’ (again) hearing Buck-
spectral techno and slo-mo synths. Verbal Contact shot rip so riotously again brings out a
01. SNOOP DOGG ‘Protocol’ Priority
“Snoop goes in on one of the hardest hip-hop beats I’ve heard him on in a while.”
Dazzling as ever. Literary Vices shit-eating grin across my face that ain’t
30 Tonne Slug gonna shift. Welcome back y’psychos.
02. HAVOC ‘We Ain’t Playin’ Nature Sounds
“Beat Butcha does it again, upping the levs.”
Dubbledge
Glaciers Of Ice Matter & Phrys coming out of Leeds Blakroc feat RZA & Pharoah
03. LITTLE DE FEAT WILEY ‘Electric Love’ NA
“Daytime radio heat!”
Hidden Agenda with seven tracks of tight rhymes, Monche
heat-packing beats (courtesy of Sonar Dollaz & Sense
04. P MONEY ‘1 Up’ OGz
“P Money shows why lyrically and conceptually he’s a step ahead.”
Now this ol’ fart’s gonna be a sucker Cousin) and able rhyme assistance from Splash Records
for this. Dubbledge, perhaps one of the Mr. Ris & Devalish, as well as female
05. BLACK FEAT CRAIG & LITTLE DE ‘Got That’ JahMekTheWorld
“Probably the biggest tune on his new CD ‘Sick Individual.’”
most intriguingly commanding of UK vocalist Chennai. ‘First Impressions’ The Black Keys get thrown by Damon
MCs, dropping rhymes over Raekwon’s lets you know just how carefully Cousin Dash into a studio with some of
06. RAMSON BADBONEZ ‘Want U Back’ NA
“When I heard this it sent chills through me.”
‘Cuban Linx’ classic, but like the rest laces together his madness, all the right rap’s royalty and this is the result, a
of the stunning ‘One Inch Punch’ mix elements foregrounded, heavy beats beautifully propulsive mix of live beats,
07. BRAD STRUT ‘No’ Unkut
“Another bomb from the Beat Butcha. A tear-your-head-off banger.”
this comes from, Dubble manages the and bass holding the whole together. spectral bottleneck and grungy riffola,
impossible in being able to take these ‘Wasteland’ continues the head-nod- over which RZA & PM spit more franti-
08. DOT ROTTEN ‘Crazy Comments’ Dot Rotten
“Producer Teeza will change the sound we know as grime.”
tracks over, reconfigure them around ding vibe and by the truly demented cally than they have in years. Bodes well
his own verbals to the point where you closer ‘Mind The Gap’ you realise you’re for the album (which also features Q-Tip,
09. RINSE ‘Put ‘Em Up’ Rinse Music
“A crazy dubstep bangeroonie with singalong hook, super flow and hard bars.”
almost forget the originals. Much great- in the company of a crew you’re gonna MOP, Ludacris) and gratifyingly sounds
ness on the mix (including righteous have to dedicate 2010 to investigating less like a live band than a long-forgot-
10. CHIMA ANYA ‘Invincible’ ChimaAnya
“Sick beat and Chima compliments the track. He’s gonna be big!”
re-jigs of Souls of Mischief & Jeru), this further. Hear ‘em now. ten John Spencer rerub. Geddin.
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