Generic list post: August 2025

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when my YouTube recommendations were bombarded with Necro interview videos. YOUR FUTURE IS MORBIDITY, YOUR PRESENT IS OZEMPIC AND JUST FOR MEN BEARD DYE!

Murs - Silverlake Rec League (2025)
Murs - Chopper (thisisnotanantipolicesongthisisanantipolicehelicoptersong) (2025)
Aone ft. The Jacka & Buss Da Husalah - - Mob Right Now (2025)
Sunnitharapper ft. OnlyHeaven - Shake Down (2025)
WNC Whop Bezzy ft. 70th Street Carlos - WTF I Look Like (2025)
Monaleo - Putting Ya Dine (2025)
Ceebo - Jook (2025)
SL ft. Knucks & Sainte - Summertime (2025)
Nine & Dex - Morgan Freeman (2025)
Pete & Bas - South Eastenders (2025)
Real Lies - Let The Lips Fall Where They May (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:
Jaws (1975) *
California Man (1992) *
Spree (2020)

TV shows I watched and liked:
Neighbours (new episodes) (2025)
Mastermind (new episodes) (2025)
Only Connect (new episodes) (????)
Arsenal vs Leeds United (2025)
Grimsby vs. Manchester United (2025)
Match Of The Day 1 and 2 (new episodes) (2025)

Other notables: also enjoyed this 1988 Kid Capri mix posted by Grime & Lime.

Slob on the Mob

Aone ft. The Jacka & Buss Da Husalah - Mob Right Now
(From Mob Right Away single; 2025)


Spotted via Ray G who reckons Jacka is "hella sweet on this hook." I concur, and the whole song is pretty sweet if you're partial to some fresh melancholy mob-music Jacka-core in your listening diet.

My Mind Spray interlude

Murs - Silverlake Rec League
(From Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation album; 2025)


Murs - Chopper (thisisnotanantipolicesongthisisanantipolicehelicoptersong)
(From Love & Rockets 3:16 (The Emancipation album; 2025)


Quick bank holiday monday thought of the day: these two personal highlights of Murs' final album are what Vince Staples' music would sound like if it didn't have someone as annoying as Vince Staples rhyming on it.

One step for man, it's a giant step for cripple kind

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Sometimes snippets really are better than songs. Case in point: Change On Me by Lil' Crip here. Name me a harder lyric in 2025 than "half cripple, half machine, I'm built like the Terminator." I'll wait.

True story: every city in Britain has a horrible, bearded alkie bloke in a wheelchair known to the locals as Ironside.

Doing It To Death

When the Grim Reaper gets on the good foot and sticks his toe in my arse, feel free to have a whip around to pay MC Hammer to dance at my funeral. Please, please, please tell me there's full footage of this Hammer tribute to James Brown?

Grandads, we love you (part 2)

Nine & Dex - Morgan Freeman
(From YouTube; 2025)


The ghostwriting grandson's of Pete & Bas return with a track which is pretty much Pecan Pie part two. The great chalky hopes are back with bars and bars like Tim Martin. LMFAO @ "and if he wanna keep playin' with the big bro then his whole family's f**ked like he's in Bread." U.K Rap exists solely to keep me amused with punchlines about Scouse shitcoms from the 1980s.

He wanna bang-bang, but when he see me in the streetz he call me gang gang

"If a n*gga cheat on me, ima cheat back
Ain't no bitch f*ckin' wit' me, I'll swat her like a gnat
If you ever kissed my n*gga just know you eatin' ass
I might lend you that n*gga just to show I'll get him back
I ain't never been no pussy, but this pussy straight gat
I got that that FIYA FIYA FIYA from the back"

Sunnitharapper ft. OnlyHeaven - Shake Down
(From Shake Down single; 2025)


Just when I thought I was gonna spend the entire week listening to nothing but The Cramps' early shit and Wham's Everything She Wants, some XXXtra p0rnish bird-Bounce pulls me back in. If I die 2nite, let my gravestone say He could never escape Rap music. Warning: this song features a very unexpected Oochie Wally interpolation when our 2 hosts are rhyming about the hoochie coochie.

Doo Doo Whop Is Strong In Here

WNC Whop Bezzy ft. 70th Street Carlos - WTF I Look Like
(From YouTube; 2025)


Ain't it grand when some faves who fell off hard manage to recapture the old magic? I'm down with WNC, yeah you know me. Boosie FatAzz & his Bezzy m8 back on their Berserker-Bounce shit. This song sounds like the hottest thing from the Wild West to come outta the South.

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.