Sunday 30 April 2023

Generic list post: April 2023

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when the Premier League became as pointless as the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and the Scottish Premier League. Why couldn't Elon Musk's shitty space rocket have crash landed on Manchester Citeh's training ground and injured their entire first team until the end of the season????

Drama - Big Ball (2001)
Homeboy Sandman - A! (video) (2022/2023)
Nef The Pharaoh - What Do You Like (2023)
Suga Free & Kokane - Bitch In Da Trunk (2023)
iCandy - Keep Dat N*gga (2023)
Curren$y & Jermaine Dupri - Screens Fallin' (2023)
Rae Sremmurd - Flaunt It/Cheap (2023)
Mic Terror - Might Pimp (2023)
Big Doobie - I Go To Costco For That Wock (And That Chicken Bake) (2023)
Madness - Night Boat To Cairo (French TV performance) (1980)
Bad Manners - Inner London Violence (1980)
S-J - I Feel Divine (Dem 2 remix) (1997)

Other reading/listening: I put together a Day Day Sustaaa Quinary Of Quality playlist; Mosi Reeves wrote a killer article on 80s Bay Area Rap; EttelThun did a mix of Harry Allen's 12 Underacknowledged Hip-Hop Cuts; Chicken N Kalinka put together a 4 part best of Slip-N-Slide Records compilation; Juiceboxxx took us back in time with his favourite concert clips from 2003; The Spartorialist paid tribute to movie opinionz from the Baby Blue.

PS: that Drama Big Ball single linked up top is my second favourite late pass discovery song of 2023 so far. It's like Mystikal recorded a Country Grammar-era Nelly type single. Cheers to Chicken-N-Kalinka's aforementioned best of Slip-N-Slide Records compilation for that one.
at

10 comments:

  1. Anonymous1 May 2023 at 01:35

    That Curren$y & JD EP was better than I thought it’d be

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous1 May 2023 at 02:49

    Is that Suga Free Kokane album worth listening to?

    ReplyDelete
  3. Ray Garraty1 May 2023 at 07:38

    Nothing off the new Mac J?

    ReplyDelete
  4. Yohan1 May 2023 at 08:18

    That Rae Sremmurd had a bunch of pretty good tracks but I agree that Flaunt It/Cheap is the best of the bunch. Also really like that Curren$y x Jermaine Dupri EP.

    Dove in Robbie Unkut's "Past the Margin" this month - especially the stories about the shady dealings at Sugar Hill Records told by their in-house band members were excellent.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Kelvin Mack10zie1 May 2023 at 09:28

    Peace to Past The Margins.

    Anonymous, yeah the Suga Free & Kokane got some jams for those of us who've been fiendin' since Snoop's Bring It On.

    Ray, the Mac J sucked. Someone needs to tell him to lay off the Auto-Tune.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Spartan1 May 2023 at 09:30

    I really ought to check out Dance Craze whenever possible.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Kelvin Mack10zie1 May 2023 at 09:55

    It contains the best live footage I've ever seen of The Specials.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Anonymous3 May 2023 at 18:23

    Come on you Hammers tonight.

    ReplyDelete
  9. PyrexPyramid25 May 2023 at 13:00

    that Drama song does bang. seems very much inspired/biting the beat from Trick Daddy's "I'm A Thug" which came out earlier that same year, same label, different producers tho

    ReplyDelete
  10. Kelvin Mack10zie25 May 2023 at 13:30

    True, that beat definitely has a big I'm A Thug type bounce to it.

    But his flow is pure Mystikal and the hook is totally Nelly IMHO.

    ReplyDelete