FINALLY SOME SONGS BY SOME BRITISH BREHS HAVE COME BACK TO THE MARTORIALIST!

Ceebo - Jook
(From Jook single; 2025)


SL ft. Knucks & Sainte - Summertime
(From Summertime single; 2025)


Two U.K Rap songs which are all up in my ears & eyes right now. Both of them givin' me specific vybz I can't get from any current American Rap songs. Which is the whole point of U.K Rap innit. Otherwise why does U.K Rap need to exist?

PS: if we sacrifice Howie B to a volcano can we get Hitman Howie Tee back? HHT was born in London which possibly explains why he was able to integrate Reggae into Rap better than most of his 'Murican contemporaries. For doz that slept, Howie was one of New York's great producers of the golden-era responsible for such hall of fame singles as Nothing Serious (Just Buggin') by Whistle, I Got It Made by Special Ed, Treat 'Em Right by Chubb Rock and Hickeys On Your Check by Little Shawn. For my money, tho, his best productions are two Special Ed album tracks: Taxing and Ready 2 Attack. Rest in peace to the producer whose best beats never fail to make me bust the running man even if it's just in my head. Thanx for the hits, man.

Generic list post: July 2025

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when I can no longer find my favourite Hollywood Hogan Voodoo Child... entrance on YouTube. It's the episode of Nitro after Curt Hennig turned heel on Ric Flair at some PPV and then officially joined the n.W.o. The clip features some epic belt-guirar action from Hogan. If you got the goods, give 'em up. All that I can find is the part where Hennig takes a cup to the domepiece.

Cozmik Law - Loot 'A Getcha (Coast Ta Coast Bust That Dial Mix) (1997)
Dilligentz ft. The Pack & Go Dav - Punk Rock (remix) (2007)
Seiji Oda ft. Young Bari - Mobby Miyazaki (video) (2025)
LaRussell & Lil' Jon - Having Like This (2025)
JD ft. J Money, Sean Paul, BunnaB & Bankroll NI - Magic City Money (2025)
Monaleo - We On Dat (2025)
Young Bleed ft. Cold 187um - Welcome 2 Da Trap (2025)
Funnymike - Bust It Like Londyn (2025)
Clipse - Virginia (live) (2025)
Clipse - Momma, I'm So Sorry (live) (2025)

Bonus bloggin: 1nce again I'm gonna use my monthly wrap-up post to keep track of the best movies and TV shows I've been watching. * indicates rewatches dunnit.

Movies I watched and liked:
Green For Danger (1946)
Odd Man Out (1947) *
Body Heat (1981)
Showgirls (1995)
Very Bad Things (1998) *
The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)

TV shows I watched and liked:
Neighbours (new episodes) (2025)
Mandy (series 4) (2025)
Only Connect (new episodes) (2025)
Mastermind (new episodes) (2025)

Other stuff: Party Sparty on The Surfer.

09 'til Infinity (Part 2)

JD ft. J Money, Sean Paul, BunnaB & Bankroll NI - Magic City Money
(From Money City Money single; 2025)


Well, I did say that nowadays I only like Atlanta Rap if it sounds like it's been beamed into 2025 from 2009. Futuristic Swag-Rap still sounds totally contemporary when it's handled by the right folks. Professional Rap music with Jermaine Dupri production designed for strippers to snake-charm the penises of Magic City's patrons. Gimme an extended remix of this song featuring Young Dro, Yung L.A and Juney Boomdata & Sandman.

Londyn On Da Track

Funnymike - Bust It Like Londyn
(From Bust It Like Londyn single; 2025)


I've been listening to Rap music since 1985/1986 and it still has the ability to surprise me. For example, never in a month of Ruby Tuesdays did I ever think that the internet comedian who trolled 21 Savage as 22 Savage in 2016 would drop the rowdiest Baton Rouge brawl music song of 2025. The Rouge stays undefeated at having Rap songs about fighting in the club which feature children.

Pour out a little Snakebite for Ozzy Osbourne

It's my turn to live like the Osbournes. Keep bloggin', baby, let's post until our eyes burn.

Ice-T - Midnight
(From O.G. Original Gangster album; 1991)


Ka - You Know It's About
(From The Night's Gambit album; 2013)

My introduction to Ozzy Osbourne? Watching Trick Or Treat at my m8's house in the late 80s.

Poland Street Is Watching

Cozmik Law - Loot 'A Getcha (Coast Ta Coast Bust That Dial Mix)
(From On Da Brink album; 1997)


Another song ya host Bloggy Brackins discovered via BigSleep's Bay Area Jazz-Rap compilations. A worthy entry into the For The Love Of Money canon which began properly in 1984 with its first great use Step Off by Melle Mel & The Furious Five. This mix of Loot 'A Getcha is some charmingly naive Bay Area backpack-Rap which is aimed at the dancefloor. Granted, it's a dancefloor which is 85% male, but a dancefloor is still a dancefloor innit. If the 12" containing this song had ever made it to the U.K, it would have gone gold in Mr Bongo.

10 songs which went platinum in Mr Bongo:
J-Live - Braggin' Writes (1996)
Missin' Linx - M.I.A (1998)
Jurassic 5 - Jayou (1997)
Mad Skillz - Ghostwriter (2000)
Non Phixion - Refuse To Lose (1998)
Mos Def - Universal Magnetic (1997)
Ugly Duckling - Fresh Mode (1999)
D.I.T.C - Day One (1997)
Dilated Peoples - Work The Angles (1998)
Bumpy Knuckles - Part Of My Life (1999)
MF DOOM ft. DJ Cucumber Slice - Rhymes Like Dimes (1999)
People Under The Stairs - The Next Step II (1998)

Ladeez First

Monaleo - We On Dat
(From We On Dat single; 2025)


A good example of why Rap songs with choruses are invariably better than Rap songs without. And this song features a chorus so catchy it sounds like summat kidz have been singing in the playground for the last 50 years. Best Monaleo song since the We Not Humping remix or wot?

Sunday Funday

LARussell & Lil' Jon - Having Like This
(From Having Like This sngle; 2025)


Lil' Jon beats X NorCal rappers is always the proverbial Good Combination™... well, apart from that one posthumous Mac Dre song which was too XXXtra Jonish for my liking. Anyhoo, props to Jon for getting LARussell to commit to a solo song which lasts longer than 2 minutes. This song sounds like it could have come out at any point between 2002 and 2006 which is exactly what it needs to sound like. The future is the past now!

Unrelated: when's the last time I watched the Clipse's $2 Bill MTV concert from 2002? At a guess it was around 2005 before I accidentally taped over it with an episode of Reno 911. Cot damn, Kelis has never looked fitter than her cameo in that concert. If you don't think Kelis was top 5 dead or alive in this clip then ur probably gay, m8.

Clipse ft. Pharrell & Kelis - When The Last Time (live)
(From MTV's $2 Bill concert; 2002)