Le Geek

Lelo - Get Geeked
(From Mastiff: Pink Tiles album; 2026)

Fellow #MicTerrorHive member Jmil reckons Ezale should beatjack and remake this song. I concur, but until then the original will do just fine as a Detroit Bass exocet missile designed to blow my limbs into a frenzy. Your shit is underground, this shit is underwater™. The title says Geeked, but this song is more Rollin' than Scotty. This beat is a good example of how a Rap song can snatch a couple of magic moments from an otherwise dire 80s Dutch pop song and mold them into a bangeur. True story: I've only just realised that Lelo and Gelo are two different rappers.

Real Talk

"Sometimes negative is good like a aids test
The answer is negative if it pays less
I want positive answers, you better say YES!
Couldn't tell when I was hurtin' 'cause I stay fresh"

Mic Terror - Lyrical Shit
(From The Terror Files album; 2026)

I'm starting a new The Blog Era podcast where it's me shouting "MIC TERROR HAS MORE JAMS AND MORE LONGEVITY THAN ANY OF THOSE TRENDY RAPPERS PEOPLE WERE SWEATIN'!" as I play Mic T songs from 2007 to the present day. Here's another favourite cut from his new album where Problematic Papi Mic expresses opinionz which would make Pimp C proud. Like Mic said on his latest single, mix the ignorance with elegance.

I been survivin' on my own like The Revenant

"In this world you either buyin' or you sellin' it
I'm in my bag like yo' grandmama's peppermints"

Mic Terror - A Year Ago
(From The Terror Files album; 2026)

#MicTerrorHive assemble. Problematic Papi dropped a new album today and this is the second single after Nothin' Can Stop. R. Kelly at a high school game ain't as hard as this.

Couple of old blokes, we're the U.K G.O.A.Ts

Pete & Bas - Cross Country
(From Cross Country single; 2026)

Pete & Bas · Cross Country

By the manor, for the manor, it's a summer bangeur by the pensioner London Posse. This song is like Je M'appelle for 2026. I enjoy Pete & Bas' music in the same way I enjoy the movie The Business: it should be with a degree of shame, but it's executed so flawlessly that I can't help but love it wholeheartedly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Generic list post: 2026 jams so far

We're 6 months deep into 2026, so here's 26 songs which have had my dancing shoes in a figure-four leglock. Some are from 2025, but that's okay because calender years aren't sacrosanct and you're supposed to have your wicked way with them (no Das Racist.) Football, bloody hell! Music, also bloody hell!

Newcleus - Disco Kryptonite
Trunk Boiz & Seiji Oda - Go Dumb!
Duke Deuce - Feathers Up
The IT - Mr. Gone (Fingers Edit)
Mr. Fingers - Replicate
Ezale - Make Her Gig
Trim - BOAT
T.I. - Let Em Know
OnlyHeaven - No Lie
Tove Lo - I'm Your Girl Right?
Bruus & Mic Terror - Nothin' Can Stop
Bri3 - Whatever
The Assembly - Mob Throb
Homeboy Sandman & Luke Warmth - Heet
Mexikodro - Mail
Mýa ft. Too $hort - Just A Little Bit
Casual - Hard Drive Music
BunnaB - Mind Right
Young Bari ft. BossLife Big Spence - That's A Playa
Pete & Bas - Cross Country
Nine & Dex - White Boy Wasted
70th Street Carlos - Get Out The Way
BigXthaPlug, Ro$ama, Yung Hood, Murdagang PB - 6WA
Husalah - On The Streets Pt 2
Lord Sko & Statik Selektah - Wish Upon A Star
Donae'O - Big Up The Gooners Around The World

A Bork of Human Language

Tove Lo - I'm Your Girl Right?
(From I'm Your Girl Right? single; 2026)

Finally a 2026 Pop single which tickles my fancy, courtesy of old Martorialist favourite Tove Lo. Bury me with the Lo on because I've been partial to Tove's music since Habits (Stay High), with Disco Tits being her choon ne plus ultra. In fact, she's only of the only modern pop singers who is believable as a dirtbag because she has a certain sleaziness which is unique to Bork birds from northern Europe. A couple of unexpected but welcome little touches on this song: either by accident or by design, she sounds like she's singing in an Essex accent during the pre-chorus and chorus; and that Rave piano on the pre-chorus is so effective it could have rang bells at Quadrant Park in 1991. This shit would be my favourite non-Rap song of 2026 thus far if it weren't for Mr Gone (Fingers Edit) by The IT.

God bless YouTube

Husalah - On The Streets Pt 2
(From unreleased; 200?/Stash World YouTube channel; 2026)

Via the Stash World YouTube channel AKA the internet's number one source for rare and unreleased Mob Figaz music, here's a hitherto-unheard sequel to one of Husalah's best unreleased songs On The Streets. Same beat as the original, but entirely different lyrics. No idea when it was recorded but it doesn't matter because Sob Figaz-core will never get old to mavens of melancholy mob-music.

No Sleep Till After Midnight

Never seen before by me: the Beastie Boys performing No Sleep Till Brooklyn and (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) live on MTV's 1987 new year's eve Rock 'N' Roll Ball show. This is #problematic teenage brat era Beasties in their full glory, and the only downside to the clip is that they weren't given more airtime to perform Rhymin' & Stealin', Posse In Effect, Brass Monkey and Slow and Low too. On one hand, I wish I'd been old enough to have seen Run-D.M.C, LL Cool J and the Beasties on their U.K tour in 1986. On the other hand, if I was old enough to see that tour in 1986 then I wouldn't have been watching Children's BBC in 1990 when Round The Twist first hit U.K TV screens.

Sod that. Conclusion: Round The Twist - 1, Rush Associated Artists - 0.