Generic list post: August 2024

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when my only contribution to the Oasis discourse is thus: they are a pox on northern England and I once walked out of a pub in disgust during a Euro '96 England match when someone put Wonderwall on the jukebox and the rest of the pub burst into a mass singalong. BUT I've always loved Supersonic ever since I first heard it on The Word, and Gallagher Junior's outfit up top is the only good get-up to be worn by a member of a Britpop band.

Young MC - Principal's Office (video) (1989)
Pookie F'n Rude ft. Kedaru & Hash Hearted - One Of Them Dayz (2023)
Pookie F'n Rude - Hold Up (2024)
LARussell ft. Freeway & Peedi Crakk - Flipside (remix) (2024)
Kurious - I Don't Even Exist (2024)
Kurious - Unknown Species (2024)
Urban Jungle - Back In The Daze (1994)
Mall Grab & Real Lies - Ripples In The Timeline (2024)

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:
Rock 'N' Roll High School (1979) *
Eating Raoul (1982)
Meantime (1983)
Little Shop Of Horrors (director's cut) (1986/2012)
Attack The Block (2011) *
Totally Killer (2023)
Sky Peels (2024)

TV shows I watched and liked:
Prisoner: Cell Block H (episodes 132 to 147) (1980)
Neighbours (new episodes) (2024)
Only Connect (new episodes) (2024)
Match Of The Day 1 and 2 (new episodes) (2024)

PS: I made a little playlist of Kurious loosies from 2010 to 2014. It's only 4 songs deep but they're a good 4 songs which deserve better than being lost in loosie purgatory.

LAte Property

LARussell ft. Freeway & Peedi Crakk - Flipside (remix)
(From Flipside (remix) single; 2024)


One of the best things about NorCal Rap is how there's very little generational Too Cool For School posing because those muhf**kers are all ears to all eras of Rap; if a song knocks then 9 times outta 10 NorCal fuxwit it. Thus, only an Oakland rapper would think of revamping Freeway & Peedi Crakk's Flipside into a 2024 slap by jacking the hook and reuniting Free & Peedi on that shit. How effortlessly does Peedi bounce, rock, skate & slide on this beat? Makes me wish Peedi had guested on some of the Freeway & Jacka songs.

LARussell is a weird artist. His singles with P-Lo are some of my absolute favourite music of 2024, but he's just dropped a handful of singy Chance The Rapper type singles which are unlistenable to me. I'll always hate Chance's stupid crying Adam Sandler sounding-ass voice, but I got luh love for him for effectively putting that terrible MTV News website outta business lolz.

Late pass!

Pookie F'n Rude ft. Kedaru & Hash Hearted - One Of Them Dayz
(From One Of Them Dayz single; 2023)


Another single I'm feelin' by the fat guy behind Hold Up and Put That On Everythang. This one's a change of pace: it's some crooning-under-a-waterfall L.A pimp ballad shit which stems from the On My Way family tree. R.I.P to Kedaru - he ain't dead, he just pasta way.

Gonna add this shit to my list of top 10 favourite non-2024 Rap songs I discovered in 2024. Peep the other 9:

Hard Rock Soul Movement - Double Def Fresh (1986)
G. Dep - Dollar Bill (1998)
Warren G - Dope Beat (1999)
Big Moe ft. Mike Wilson - Leave Drank Alone (2003)
Saigon - Favorite Thingz (extended version) (2006)
DaBanggaz314 - Run Up Get Dun Up (2009)
Rack-Lo - What's A Lo-Life To Me (2013)
38 Dezzie ft. Mouse On Tha Track - On My Shit (2021)
Mello Buckzz - Move (2023)

Russell Athletic: the reprise!

LARussell & P-Lo - Lil' Lad (Unimpressed)
(From Majorly Independent EP; 2024)


You already know I've been waitin' on a video to do this choon justice. LARussell got Funky Grampa from the Give Me A Beat video to pop, lock and dumb-knock it again. Turns out Funky Grampa is an old skool Electric Boogaloo dancer called OG Mike Chaos who has previous form for strutting his stuff to classic P-Lo productions. If the BBC ever accept my pitch for a Strictly Turf Dancing TV show then OG Mike Chaos needs to be a contestant.


When I've been to Oakland it seems like there's an old white bloke in a cap and an M-65 jacket on every block. Mans are in da streetz like black & white Nike Dunks.

Born To Audiomack: best Kurious loosies 2010 to 2014

Kurious - Best Loosies 2010 to 2014
1. Snake Charmer (2003/2010)
2. White Rum (2012)
3. Best In The World (2014)
4. Delusional (2014)


Just in time for the new Monkeypox outbreak, the last Constipated Monkey standing Kurious is finally dropping his long-touted album which was overseen by MF DOOM. The album drops late September, so, until then, here's a mini-playlist of late-career Kurious loosies to keep you fluffed like a gibbon. We got Snake Charmer 2 which is a rerecording of an unreleased song recorded for DOOM's King Geedorah album that finally saw the light of day on a bonus 7" which came with some Ninja Tune boxset; we got his Max B-inspired 2012 single White Rum which is better than his #actual single with the chairman of the surfboard; we got his 2014 single Best In The World which wouldn't sound outta place at the Latin club in Carlito's Way; and we got another 2014 single Delusional which'll make you bob that head like a Muppet.

My Mind Spray 15.5

R.I.P to Rap's tzar of sloganed t-shirt BeatKing. He was a rapper I only checked for every couple of years, but always delivered some killer booty-chatter bangeurs when I got round to his music. Last BeatKing song I fuxwit hard was 2023's On Yo Head remix where he reunited Diamond and Princess from Crime Mob.

It's a pity BeatKing and Mouse On Tha Track only ever collaborated thrice, because they had crazy chemistry when rhyming about female biology/anatomy. In a perfect world, Universe is a song which would inspire a million flat-arsed women to get BBLs.

Is Ice-T's M.V.P.s Rap's G.O.A.T shout outs song? It knocks harder than a lotta other Rapper's singles and it contains phrases which have been part of my personal lexicon for over 30 years.

Fair play to The Guardian for their consistency because their 20 best Ramones songs list is equally as bad as their Rap coverage. No Commando or Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World or Cretin Hop or I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement or Ed Stasium mix of Rock 'n' Roll High School or I Don't Care or I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend or Carbona Not Glue or I Just Want To Have Something To Do, but 'nuff sluggish 80s mediocrity instead. No 20 best Ramones songs list should ever include anything released after End Of The Century.

Walk like a blurt

Kurious - Unknown Species
(From the upcoming Majician album; 2024)


Kurious - I Don't Even Exist
(From Mystery Mixtape EP; 2024)


As he ages, Kurious is the boricua who now looks more like a 50-something scouser. His last 2 singles are hot like bifter smoke even though he didn't bother to write a chorus for either of them. G'wed and giz some proper boss chorus anthems in the vein of Uptown Shit or Fastlane on this upcoming album, la'.

Quality Street

Young MC - Principal's Office
(From Stone Cold Rhymin' album; 1989)


Young Bleed - Give and Take
(From My Own album; 1999)


Gotta love this era of YouTube when old Rap videos I've only ever seen in shitty pixelated rips previously are now being uploaded in grown & gorgeous pristine quality. Here's two favourites by two rappers who are no longer Young. Peep how exquisite the blues look in the Give and Take video, darlings - deepest, bluest like the Indian Ocean archipelago.

Related: someone needs to steal the print of Steve Buscemi & Vincent Gallo's first movie The Way It Is that's housed in NYU and finally release that shit to the public by uploading it to YouTube. You know who else is in that movie? Rockets Redglare AKA the bloke who probably #actually killed Nancy Spungen. Sid Vicious woz innocent and you can't tell me nuffink to the contrary!

How low can you go?

Pookie F'n Rude already has a West Coast semi-hit with Put That On Everythang and it's all-star remix featuring E-40, Suga Free & E-40. I fux with the remix, but I prefer Pookie's latest single Hold Up because it sounds like the sorta song which could be a legit West Coast hit. This shit is what DJ Quik would call a Bam-Bam™: a big choon with a chorus you can holla at the moon and bass which is lower than Neck Face's enviable hairline. Song of my own private summer material.

Pookie F'n Rude - Hold Up
(From Hold Up single; 2024)


That bulldyke septum piercing makes Pookie look like a lesbian Timbaland. My guy heard Egyptian Lover's The Alezby Inn and got shit twisted like a kite's tail.

Not just knee deep

LARussell & P-Lo ft. Malachi & Richie Rich - What We Doin'?
(From Majorly Independent EP; 2024)


It was inevitable I'd post this song eventually given that I've already mentioned how Richie Rich makes the best video entrance of 2024 in it. Posting this shit today because Rich performed it in LARussell's backyard over the weekend and ended up thinking on his feet off the domepiece after he went flat out on his arse and broke his knee on stage. Let's put our hands together for a true professional Rap performer. The realest example of The Show Must Go On you'll ever see. "Never underestimate the O.G" 4 real.

"Bust the game down like an 8th of blow
Rocked it up, blew my knee, do you see that, yo?
Still flowin', n***a, and I can't stand up
N***as in the 'hood call the doc man up
What we doin'? F**kin' with a n***a on stage
What we doin'? Blew my knee actin' out my age
What we doin'? I don't really even give a f**k
What we doin'? I need some f**kin' help up
What we doin'? Somebody run and call the nurse
What we doin'? I done blew my f**kin' knee first
What we doin'? Baby, real talk, I can't move
What we doin'? I don't know what I'm 'bout to do"


Really doe, I'm buggin' that Richie Rich's non-studio IRL voice is different to his recorded rap voice. Who knew he #actually sounds like Neckface?

**EDIT** Different angle video which includes another double R freestyle as he's being carried off stage.

Who's House?

Royal House - Can You Party?
(From Top Of The Pops TV show; 1988)


Todd Terry released the proto-Rave classic Can You Party? under his Royal House pseudonym in 1988, and it was the first New York Hip-House track to blow up in Britain. When that shit become a U.K Top 20 hit in late '88, Terry was invited to perform the track on our weekly TV music chart show Top Of The Pops. The urban rumour has always been that none of the people onstage are #actually Todd Terry, and Champion Records who licensed Can You Party? for U.K release just hired Sonique and three black British blokes to pretend to be Royal House. I've always subscribed to this theory until I saw this late 80s picture of Todd minus his trademark baseball cap. The bloke up front miming the "CAN YOU FEEL IT?"s is him innit? Dial M for Martorialist if you agree!

All in all, it's just another brick in the balls

"Life comes at you pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

He ain't had much education, and after that brick to the bollox, he ain't gonna need much birth control. And people have the nerve to suggest that British comedy isn't as good as it used to be. M8, nobody does slapstick humour better than Great Britain™. Can't put shit past him, got whiteboys on his own team mad enough to blast him. Shout outs Del from Hiero, karma is a bitch!

"Being in the wrong place at the wrong time
Comin' at ya in the wrong state of mind"

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Wrong Place
(From No Need For Alarm album; 1993)