Tag: british hip hop
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New Dr Syntax & Tom Caruana – Get Your Dad Off The Internet
Ooh there’s a new Syntax and Tom Caruana album ‘Crumbs’ dropping on Fireworks night, remember remember the 5th of November! And the first single is ‘Get Your Dad Off The Internet’ – a wry and funny observation of how some of the older ‘Daily Heil’ Boomer Gammon generation can be spreading hate…
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Lady Leshurr – Dynamite Flow
Lady Leshurr flipped Stormzy‘s Wiley Flow back in 2019 to talk about her hero – legend Ms Dynamite but didn’t release it. Ms Dynamite heard it and loved it, and pushed her to release it. it’s great, Leesh goes HARD on this one, and talks about not wanting to come back and having to regain…
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Dur brain, Dr Syntax & Binbags are retraining
Dr Syntax has been a bit quiet over lockdown, so nice to see this tune drop – appropriately about the lockdown and it’s affect on the creative industries. Love Ben’s verses and the one by Binbags (the last rapper). Nice. You can find it on Bandcamp.
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RC 327: A Line In The Sand Part 2: Black Lives Matter
Anti-racism and Black Lives Matter is not just for a week or a month, it’s for a lifetime. The danger is that as this article points out, us white people have a history of dealing with racism and handwringing that actually doesn’t create action. Obfuscating it with their guilt and ‘need to listen/know more’ which…
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RC 307: Upside Down Under
In which we are the Grand Mage of Oz (Music Level 20) and go to the Great Original Upside Down, Down Under with Australian music and songs, far too many Men At Work covers, Ed Sheeran rapping, funky 80’s soul, antipodean Pulp covers, an original accordion recording that became a Negativland track, a bit of…
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RIP Mark B
Around the new year UK hip hop lost a great rapper and producer, Mark Barnes aka Mark B (of Mark B and Blade fame). I held off saying much because I wanted something more official than a tweet from others confirming it. I was hoping it was a rumour, but I guess this confirms it…