Walk like A DOOM

Kurious - Cow's Eye
(From Majician album; 2024)


It's funny how a great video can transform a song into your favourite jam on the whole album. Absolute perfect marriage of music and music image resulting in the best DOOM tribute ever. Shit twists my tearducts like a muppet; keepin' it honest, I can't listen to it in public. Also, a rare modern Kurious video where he's not wearing jhorts. That man definitely owns more cut-off denim than an ECW wrestler.

Kurious - Don't Know
(From Mystery Mixtape mixtape; 2024)


If I ruled the world, Kurious would have included Don't Know and I Don't Even Exist on his Majician album rather than his Mystery Mixtape. One of my biggest pet peeves with Rap is rappers not including great songs on their proceeding album. It's an annoying practice which dates back to the mid 1980s when Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde didn't include Gettin' Money, Fast Life and A.M./P.M. on their album. Run-D.M.C also got in on the act when they neglected to include Together Forever on Raising Hell or Here We Go (Live at The Funhouse) on King Of Rock. The Beastie Boys also threw their baseball caps in the ring when they decided She's On It wasn't going to appear on Licensed To Ill. The Beasties now hate that song and refer to it as "Cheese Omelette", but they're terrible judges of their own catalogue so who cares what they think?


** EDIT** Ice-T was also an early offender when he left Killers and Dog 'N The Wax (Ya Don't Quit Part II) offa his Rhyme Pays album.

Born To Audiomack: 2024 Faves Not From 2024

~~ Martorialist 2024 Faves Not From 2024 ~~

1. Hard Rock Soul Movement - Double Def Fresh (1986)
2. Professor X - Professor X (Saga) (1988)
3. LL Cool J - Illegal Search (Pre-Trial Hearing mix) (1990)
4. Jay Tee ft. Mac Dre - Do The Crew (CDQ version) (1990/2018)
5. Kurious - Fill 'Er Up (1991/2008)
6. G. Dep - Dollar Bill (1998)
7. AZ - Rap Fanatic (2002)
8. Big Moe ft. Mike Wilson - Leave Drank Alone (2003)
9. Saigon - Favorite Thingz (extended version) (2006)
10. DaBanggaz314 - Run Up Get Dun Up (2009)
11. Homeboy Sandman - Talking (Bleep) (2016)
12. 38 Dezzie ft. Mouse On Tha Track - On My Shit (2021)
13. Mic Terror - OJ Simpson (2021)
14. Pookie F'n Rude ft. Hash Hearted - Put That On Everythang (2023)
15. Mello Buckzz - Move (2023)


15 songs from the rich tapestry of Rap history which have been up in my ears like malleus bones in 2024. Most of them are new-to-me discoveries, but a couple of them are old favourites which have snuck back into regular rotation. Shout out to Step Wun for recently hippin' me to that AZ song.

Nef The Not Fairoh

"If you ain't from the Yay then I'm over n*ggas heads
Bitches askin' Siri 'bout some shit that Chang said"

Nef The Pharaoh - Essence
(From Essence single; 2024)


I ain't from the Yay so I'll tell you what's over my head: why Nef's Essence loosie from a few months back is better than anything on his Vallejo Playa album which dropped this past friday. When Nef says "I'll do a song and won't ever send the session, I don't want your engineer f**kin' up my essence" I feel like he's mocking me because he's never dropped that song with Mannie Fresh he teased on Instagram back in 2016. The snippet has long since been deleted, but that shit sounded exactly how a Mannie Nef song should sound. Call that shit Simon Cowell because it's never coming out.

Generic list post: October 2024

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when we said goodbye to British legend and former two times World's Strongest Man Geoff Capes. Also the month when I dropped a 100 best songs of the 2020s so far list.

Charlie Green - The Bus Stop (1983)
Busta Rhymes - Do The Busabus Pt.2 (2024)
Professor X - Professor X (Saga) (1987)
Kurious - 1984 (2024)
Kurious - Bacalao Opera (2024)
BigXthaPlug - The Largest (2024)
Brian Bennett - Solstice (1978)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Police Helicopter (demo version) (1983/1994)
Mean Jeans - Reggie (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:
Chimes At Midnight (1965) *
Carrie (1976) *
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) *
Near Dark (1987)
They Live (1988) *
Smile 2 (2024)

TV shows I watched and liked:
Prisoner: Cell Block H (episodes 153 to 158) (1980)
Neighbours (new episodes) (2024)
What We Do In The Shadows (series 6 episodes 1 to 4) (2024)
Ludwig (series 1) (2024)
Mr. McMahon (all 6 episodes) (2024)
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (series 7) (2024)
Only Connect (new episodes) (2024)
Match Of The Day 1 and 2 (new episodes) (2024)

My Mind Spray 17

Pour out a Styles P smoothie for DJ Clark Kent. It's all luv to Biggie's Sky's The Limit and Realms Of Junior Mafia, but my favourite Works of Clark were Slick Rick's I Own America Part 1 and Why, Why, Why.

I checked out some music by that Malachi kid whose guest verses on the LARussell & P-Lo EP are such a joy. Alas, his own solo songs are some sub-J. Cole type shit where his puppy dog energy has been replaced by painful earnestness.

If Yams were still alive then he'd surely have steered A$AP Rocky into buying a better football team than Tranmere Rovers. Crazy visionz, BOOM: Rocky buys Chester FC instead and launches into a TV ratings battle with Chester's arch rivals/Disney's bitches Wrexham FC. Daphne & Celeste could flip Ooh Stick You for the Chester TV show's theme: "OOH STICK YOU, YOUR MULLIN TOO AND YOUR DISNEY!"

If the best Rap love songs of the 1980s are Slick Rick's Teenage Love, LL Cool J's I Need Love and Whodini's One Love then the worst have to be LL's One Shot At Love and Nice & Smooth's Something I Can't Explain. Kurtis Blow's Hello Baby deserves an honourable mention for drowning a very nice Davy DMX production in a sea of schmaltz.

People always over-think music bloggin'. You're a DJ/host and your blog is your radio show. It's that simple like Posh Spice & M.O.P.

Large Processor

BigXthaPlug - The Largest
(From Take Care album; 2024)


I'm not sayin' nostalgia is a good thing, I'm just sayin' that the best BigXthaPlug songs are the ones which sound like Swisha House songs from 20 years ago. Plz believe The Largest is one of those songs. BigX reminds me of a Texan equivalent of Duke Deuce: he's a modern incarnation of an old sound which has never dated, but he only manages to nail that sound once or twice per album.

The best songs of the 2020s so far IMHO

HAAAAAAAAAAAS ANYBODY SEEN PITCHFORK'S 100 BEST SONGS OF THE 2020'S SO FAR LIST??? I haven't because I've been too busy ripping it off with my own list of Martorialist favourites from the last four years. Obviously there are songs missing from this list, but plz believe they aren't the songs you think should be included. On one hand, the past four years has resulted in some of the absolute worst music I've ever heard; on the other hand, it's also resulted in these choonz.

KMD - Scrambled Eggs (1993/2021)
Max B - Phenomenon (2020)
Flo Milli - Not Friendly (2020)
The Chats - Pub Feed (2020)
Duke Deuce - Bad News (2020)
Jenevieve - Baby Powder (2020)
Homeboy Sandman - Waiting On My Girl (2020)
Rio Da Yung OG - Groovy (2020)
Cookiee Kawaii - Vacation (2020)
Pop Smoke - Armed N Dangerous (2020)
Mac J - OldSkoo (2020)
Bris - First 42 Hours Freestyle (2020)
79rs Gang - 79rs Bout To Blow (2020)
Maurice Fulton & Peggy Gou - Jigoo (2020)
AZ - Different (2020)
Gzus Piece - Hot Tub TIme Machine (2020)
Sault - Wildfires (2020)
Mozzy - Big Homie From The Hood (2020)
Ether Da Connect ft. Mr. Swipey & Waka Flocka Flame - WAKA (remix) (2020)
Beabaadoobee - Care (2020)
NHale - Dealin' Wit A Hoe (2020)
UNiiQU3 - UNiiQU3'S Groove (Get Down) (2020)
Dee-1 - Corona Clap (video version) (2020)
2nd Grade - Velodrome (2020)
Ka - I Love (Mimi, Mom's, Kev) (2020)
Juiceboxxx - Deal With The Dream (2020)
YG - Swag (2020)
Boldy James & Alchemist - Speed Demon Freestyle (2020)
Ezale - Raised Like This (2021)
Remble - Touchable (2021)
Eatem - Go Get Yo F**kin' Brotha (2021)
Turnstile - New Heart Design (2021)
Seiji Oda ft. Lil' Ricefield - Gasbreakdip (2021)
Monaleo - We Not Humping (2021)
Dru Down - Everywhere I Go (2021)
Pa Salieu ft. Slowthai - Glidin' (2021)
P-Lo - Going Off (2021)
DAWN - Boomerang (2021)
Ballout - Lift It Up (2021)
Bruiser Wolf ft. Apropos - Momma Was A Dopefiend (2021)
Danny Brown - Dylon (2021)
Olivia Rodrigo - Brutal (2021)
Stunnaman02 & QuakeBeatz - Big Steppin' (2021)
Children Of Zeus - I Know (2021)
Saweetie - Fast (Motion) (2021)
Cajmere - So Happy (2021)
Yuno Miles - Road To Riches (2021)
Day Day Sustaaa - B.A.N.P (2022)
Benzz - Je M'appelle (2022)
Hitkidd & GloRilla - FNF (Let's Go) (2022)
Real Lies - Dream On (2022)
Mouse On Tha Track - Big Blossom (2022)
Mr. Fingers - Coastline Paradox (2022)
Asian Doll ft. Bandmanrill - Get Jumped (2022)
Young Jr - Bird Walk (2022)
2Rare - Oochie Coochie (2022)
Luh Tyler - Law & Order (2022)
Paramore - This Is Why (2022)
Young Bleed - Dat' Water (2022)
Texas Boyz - Awready (2022)
Knucks ft. SL - Nice & Good (2022)
D4M $loan - Swiper (2022)
SZA - Nobody Gets Me (2022)
Lady Ice - Up North (2022)
Kookei - Incredible (2022)
AD - All I Do (2022)
Lebra Jolie - What Kinda (2022)
TREE - 10 Mac 11's (2023)
The Guy - Sorry Buddy (2023)
Coyote ft. Shaquille O'Neal - 3 Lokos (2023)
J Hus - It's Crazy (2023)
Zae Shakur - Donuts In A Benz (2023)
Peggy Gou - It Goes Like (Nanana) (2023)
Sexyy Red - Shake Yo Dreads (2023)
Lil' Ricefield - Him Burton (2023)
Everything But The Girl - Nothing Left To Lose (2023)
Mic Terror ft. Gzus Piece - The Titty Song (2023)
Mean Jeans - I Don't Give A Shit Anymore (2023)
Nef The Pharaoh ft. LARussell - Furley Ghost (2023)
Kenya Grace - Strangers (2023)
iCandy - Keep Dat N*gga (2023)
Berner ft. The Jacka - Gone (remix) (2023)
Lord Sko - Pimp Socks (2023)
Myaap - HTS (2023)
Suga Free & Kokane - Bitch In Da Trunk (2023)
Donae'o - Let There Be Light (2023)
BeatKing ft. Sukihana, Diamond & Princess - On Yo Head (remix) (2023)
BigXthaPlug - Texas (2023)
Mello Buckzz - Move (2023)
Pete & Bas - Mr. Worldwide (2023)
LARussell & P-Lo ft. D-Lo & Malachi - Yankin' (2024)
LL Cool J ft. Busta Rhymes - Huey In The Chair (2024)
Busta Rhymes - Do The Busabus Pt.2 (2024)
Pookie F'n Rude - Hold Up (2024)
Mac God Dbo - A Whole Brick (2024)
Kurious - I Don't Even Exist (2024)
Pooh The WriteR - Bestie (2024)
Common & Pete Rock - Wise Up (2024)
Alfonso de Vilallonga - Dog and Tin At The Beach (2024)
Nine & Dex - Pecan Pie (2024)

My Mind Spray 16.5

For the past 5 or so days YouTube has recommended me videos of Lord Jamar talking about homosexuality while dressed like an Egyptian mummy. Trap goin' Hamunaptra?

Back in 2002 Westwood played a Freeway song which I'd never been able to identify. A couple of days ago I randomly came across it and it's not a Freeway song, but a Naam Brigade song he guested on called Early In The Game. YouTube commenters reckon it's a Philly minor-classic?

Call me Poo Man because two of my favourite random regional Rap song discoveries of 2024 are Hold Up by Pookie F'n Rude and Bestie by Pooh The WriteR.

Some bloke recently tried to tell me that Eric B & Rakim's fourth and final album was "a disappointment". Bruv, an album which contains Know The Ledge, The Punisher, Casualties Of War, Keep The Beat, Don't Sweat The Technique, Kick Along and What's On Your Mind shits on the lives of you and your entire bloodline.

You midlife crisis Rap internet guys who are out here pretending to enjoy Xaviersobased's music need to grow up and listen to some real adult-contemporary Rap like Yuno Miles.

Double nickels on the humble pie

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Police Helicopter (demo version)
(From demo; 1983/Out In L.A compilation; 1994)


For 32 years I lived by the belief that Give It Away is the only good Red Hot Chili Peppers song and you couldn't tell me nothin' to the contrary. But a month or so back I saw Johnboxxx mention the demo version of Police Helicopter and that shit has been up inside my speakers like a diaphragm ever since. It's the best song Minutemen never recorded, and it conclusively bodies the official studio version (over)produced by that commie Andy Gill; them Chili Pepper lads shoulda heeded the Ramones' third rule. Anyhoo, I betcha Pimp C woulda loved this song as he loved Give It Away.

New York, ya out there?

Busta Rhymes - Do The Busabus Pt. 2
(From Do The Busabus Pt. 2 single; 2024)


Forget what the song title says, this is Busta's equivalent of Mystikal's Hit Me in a Do The Bus a Bus sequel's clothing. Very unexpected turn of events where LL Cool J, Kurious and Busta are dropping some of my favourite Rap songs of 2024. That Greg Nice saxobeat-core song from a few months back was cool too.

**EDIT** a video for this single just dropped with Busta wearing an outfit which looks like it was crocheted by my aunty Liz. More importantly, I just found out that Busta's song was inspired by this amazing 1983 TV clip set to Do It Any Way You Wanna by People's Choice. One day later it all makes sense. I'm guessing this video is some real everlasting Black History™?

Charlie Green - The Bus Stop
(From The Chicago Party TV show; 1983)