Thursday, 12 September 2024

Late pass!

"Time is overdue, so I'm gonna spill
My guts on the theory 'cause things is gettin' ill
Dreams get traded and sold like gold ropes
And ya hopes get sunk like boats"


Kurious - Fill 'Er Up
(From unreleased; 1991/A Constipated Monkey Demo Sessions EP; 2008)



The recent renaissance by Kurious has finally inspired me to check out that EP of his unreleased pre-A Constipated Monkey recordings. I was already up on Trueness To The Blueness but unfamiliar with the rest. Fave song on there is Fill 'Er Up where Yung Jorge is already in fine self-deprecating form over some Pete Nice production; even though Jorge has already been bitten by cynicism, the song still retains that 1991 Rap innocence. In a perfect world Fill 'Er Up shoulda been Kurious' debut single before he followed it up with Walk Like A Duck.

(I asked him on Instagram when it was recorded and he reckoned late 1991.)

4 comments:

Spartan said...

Cheers for this post. Never even knew there was A Constipated Monkey Demo Sessions EP.

The original version of Jorge of the Projects is so much harder on the EP than the one on the album.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

Catch Ya Drift is a gem too.

Ben said...

Where you find this? Never even knew this EP even existed.

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

I remember when the EP came out but it sold out almost immediately and I couldn't find a rip of it so I forgot about it until now.