From the BBQ to The Bakery (part 4)

Stunnaman02 & The Yee Section - Out That Window (live)
(From the Splash Bakery YouTube channel; 2025)


If you're a true NorCalosier then you already know that Out That Window was the song which inspired the "last year I told n*ggas put they guns down" line on Big Steppin'. Plot twist: Stunnaman02 just performed it live with The Yee Section at The Splash Bakery and it hits even harder than the studio version even tho it has no percussion. I've always hated Live Rap With Real Instruments™ and yet here I am jammin' some of these Splash Bakery performances on repeat like they're Jeff & Will at Union Square. My Script has well and truly been flipped.

Plot twist bonus beats: last week Stunnaman02 dropped Out That Window Part 02 with guest vox and production from Seiji Oda.

Born To Audiomack: Best of Ezale

~~ The Best of Ezale ~~

1. 5 Minutes of Funktown (2013)
2. Foreal Foreal (2014)
3. I'm On (2014)
4. Separate Ways ft. Kave (2014)
5. Too High (2014)
6. I Ain't Trippin' Off Nothing (2015)
7. We Out Here (2016)
8. Stop Come On (2016)
9. Day Ones (2016)
10. We Want Some Pussy (2016)
11. All It Takes (2016)
12. In A Day (2016)
13. Raised Like This (2021)
14. Ironic (2022)
15. Hotel Motel (2022)
16. Do It All Night (2024)
17. Fun (2024)



It's 2025 and I'm still here to rock you low and take you deeper than Jacques Cousteau. The music don't end if ya eyes don't close. So, here's a playlist so obvious I can't believe I haven't made it before: the Best of Ezale. You know the dilly: I call Ezale Jac Dre because he's the missing link between Jackie Chain and Mac Dre. He's the Pol Pot of the Pillionaire's Boys Club. He's what would happen if Drexl from True Romance took a holiday in Cambodia. He's #BringingThisTownShitBack by making new school shit for old school whips. He takes dummy long to drop music but it's always worth the wait. I'm postin', bloggin', don't plan on stoppin', tryna see if you patnas is down with Ezale's mobbin'.

Plz believe Teddy Jams woulda been included if Audiomack would let me upload it. That Guy sample ain't copyright friendly.

My Mind Spray 18

Here is something I can't understand: why a new remix of OMB Peezy's 2016 classic Lay Down featuring GloRilla suddenly appeared outta nowhere last week? At least it would make sense if there was a remix featuring Flo Milli since her & Peezy are two Alabama rappers who dropped nothin' but fire for 2 years or so and then lost their respective sparks thereafter.

Moniker for a MAGA rapper who thinks Hip-Hop kulcha was invented by pure-blooded 'Muricans who had no Jamaican or Latino heritage: FBA YoungBoy.

It makes sense that Tariq Nasheed's revisionist FBA Hip-Hop nonsense would gain traction since The Kulcha™ is now just a repository for grifters, conspiracy theorists, conspiracy-theory casualties, MAGA guys, flat Earthers, myopic Stans and people who are allergic to history which took place before they were born. If the FBAs think Fat Joe is a culture vulture then just wait until they discover Ezale. Or Necro & Ill Bill.

In actual order of preference, my fave Casual songs which aren't on his Fear Itself album: Turkey & Dressing, Who Do That, I Gotta (Get Down), Studio D, The Best At It, Years Ago, Classic Material, Feel Like Busting and Turf Dirt.

From the BBQ to The Bakery (part 3)

Seiji Oda & LARussell ft. The Yee Section - Peaceful 2 (live at The Bakery)
(From Splash Bakery channel; 2025)


FFS I guess I officially like live Rap performances with real instruments now. Here's another Splash Bakery performance, this time it's Seiji Oda & LARussell doing Peaceful 2. Tin-eared plebs won't dig these videos, but if yee know, yee know. I wish Uncle Furl was here to do one.

Generic list post: December 2024

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month which is basically an excuse to make various vanity lists. And so: my favourite songs of 2024, my favourite non-2024 songs I discovered in 2024 and my favourite movies & TV shows of 2024. How much do I love bloggin'? Like Tyson Fury loves bacon, lettuce & tomato. See yous in 2025.

UGK - Funky Connection (1990/????)
LaRussell & Cam Cortez ft. Malachi - Brainchild (2024)
LaRussell & Cam Cortez - Beautiful Day In The Bay (2024)
Seiji Oda ft. LARussell - Peaceful 2 (2024)
Nef The Pharaoh - Puppet Theatre (2024)
Richie Rich ft. The Yee Section - Side Show (live at The Bakery) (2024)
Ka - Borrowed Time (2024)
Rio Da Yung OG - Rio Free (2024)
Ramones - Wart Hog (live) (1985)

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:
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Porridge (1979) *
Repo Man (1984) *
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (1992) *
Anora (2024)
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
Grand Theft Hamlet (2024)

TV shows I watched and liked:
Doctor Who - The War Games (colourised re-edit) (1969/2024)
Porridge - No Way Out episode (1975) *
Porridge - The Desperate Hours episode (1976) *
Prisoner: Cell Block H (episodes 164 to 169) (1980/1981)
Neighbours (new episodes) (2024)
WHAM!: Last Christmas Upwrapped (documentary) (2024)
Cunk on Life (2024)
Only Connect (new episodes) (2024)
Match Of The Day 1 and 2 (new episodes) (2024)
Toy Shop on Tour (series 3 episodes 1 to 6) (2024)

Shout outs to Dadadebaser, Chicken-N-Kalinka and Crimedawgbylaw for comin' through with some cool 2024 lists.

Wart Hog Barbarians

Allow me one more killer clip of the Ramones performing live on the British TV show Old Grey Whistle Test. Here they are cranking out Dee Dee & Johnny's hardcore-inspired choon Wart Hog in 1985. This was the song where the Reagan twentysomethings bodied Reagan Youth with their own style. Highlights include Joey awkwardly throwin' shapes with no vocals to contribute, and Richie stealin' the show by shrieking the chorus like he's accidentally stepped on a Hedgehog.

Ramones - Wart Hog (live)
(From Old Grey Whistle Test TV show; 1985)

From the BBQ to The Bakery (part 2)

So the Splash Bakery YouTube channel is basically Tiny Desk Concerts but for NorCal Rap fiends, backed by a group called The Yee Section who are legit NorCal Rap fiends themselves (they work with LARussell, Seiji Oda and Lil' Ricefield.) The performances occasionally get a bit too Real Musicians With Real Instruments™ for my liking, but when they do work they genuinely make Slap-Classicos hit different. My fave performances so far are Nef The Pharaoh doing Big Tymin', Seiji Oda doing A Gentle Gigg, DaBoii doing Calvin Cambridge, and this new clip of Richie Rich doing... wait for it... Side Show from the first 415 album! Now that's a Christmas surprise nobody was expecting.

Richie Rich ft. The Yee Section - Side Show (live at The Bakery)
(From Splash Bakery channel; 2024)


Oi Splash Bakery crew, get E-40 in to perform Flashin'. The Yee Section lads could potentially make that shit sound flambrilliant.

In The Woods

"No if, ands or maybes
I like butts tho
You can look all you want
But don't touch tho"

Seiji Oda ft. LARussell - Peaceful 2
(From Peaceful 2 single; 2024)


Refrained from posting this because I've already blogged about three LARussell songs this month. But it'd be disingenuous of me not to post it since it's my go-to jam of the last week or so. Sendin' this one out to all Nature Boiz-In-The-Hood searching for some peace of mind rather than a piece of mine. LARussell caught that Turf Bucaneer Furley Ghost at 2:05 with my favourite pirate impersonation since Tom Baker in Blackadder. I've never liked Mac Dre's Thuzzle Dance, but for some weird reason I fuxwit interpolations of it like this and Nef The Pharaoh's Tattooed.

Previously: Twinkle twinkle, little slap (part 2) and Don't worry, be hyphy.

Dont Watch Dat, Watch Deez

It was a trip when The Muppet Show made Young Marty cry, didn't know, didn't ask, didn't wonder why.

Back by unpopular demand 1nce again, it's the Martorialist best movies and TV shows awards post. Told ya, you shoulda killed me last year. Damn, it feels good to be a blogger when you can inflict your year-end lists on the internet. I have no idea whether 2024 will go down as A Vintage Year™ for movies & television, I just know that I've watched some stuff which tickled my specific fancies. Is Natasia Demetriou nadja average actress? Then let's talk turkey.

Best movies and documentaries of 2024 IMHO:
Robot Dreams
Anora
The Substance
Love Lies Bleeding
Late Night With The Devil
You'll Never Find Me
Heretic
Grand Theft Hamlet
Getting It Back: The Cymande Story
Scala!!!

Best TV shows of 2024 IMHO:
What We Do In The Shadows (series 6)
Colin From Accounts (series 2)
Inside No. 9 (series 9)
Peacock (series 2)
Mandy (series 3)
Neighbours (2024 episodes)
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (series 7)
Mr. McMahon (all 6 episodes)
Mammals (series 1)
Saucy! Secrets Of The British Sex Comedy (both episodes)
Only Connect (2024 episodes)
Match Of The Day 1 and 2 (2024 episodes)
Toy Shop on Tour (series 3 so far)


** Kevin Bacon's sleazy hick P.I character from MaXXXine needs his own spin-off prequel movie.

** 2024 movies I still need to see: MadS and The Zone Of Interest.

Best old movies I saw for the first time this year: The Long Kiss Goodnight, Little Shop Of Horrors (director's cut), Near Dark, Miracle Mile, Meantime, Restless Natives, The Cars That Ate Paris, X, The Lavender Hill Mob and Eating Raoul.

** Since coming to the conclusion that the Ramones were the greatest Rock band ever, I've spent 2024 constantly rewatching bits of their movie Rock "N' Roll High School. This is surely one of the best opening credits sequences in the history of cinema innit?

Obligatory shout out to Party Sparty for running my favourite movie/TV blog.

Trunk Muzik

TREE - The 3rd Floor
(From The 3rd Floor mixtape; 2010)


The 3rd Floor has gotta be one of TREE's best songs, right? If he'd never recorded any more music after this, he'd still go down in the history books as mastering the art of Soul-Trap musik on this song. Also a good example of how percussion-free Rap can knock with motion and not linger in the air like a fart in a cold car.

Digging through TREE's YouTube page recently it seems like My Ether was his debut single as a solo artist. Peep his exquisite use of ad libs to fill the spaces during the chorus. A very good debut single which doesn't sound like anything else that dropped in 2010, albeit a very good debut single which doesn't sound like the Soul-Trap musik TREE became known for either.

TREE - My Ether
(From The 3rd Floor mixtape; 2010)


Then again, TREE's sound has always been broader than a lotta folks: Know Y was Swag-Rap with a Chicago twist; 1 Is For The Money sounded like DJ Toomp hooked up a track with the Films drum-break; Probably Nu It sounded like a game of Pong turnt Rap musik; Like Whoa sounds regionally ambiguous in a good way etc etc.

Sittin' here thinking of potential pseudonyms for TREE. So far I've got TREE AKA Branch Nubian AKA Bark The 45 King AKA Chief Leaf AKA Afrika Bambootaa AKA Log Foe.