My Mind Spray 20

The most accurately succinct description of Young Bleed's music I've ever heard was by Bleed himself on Give and Take when he said "you know I let the beats bang and slowly do my thang."

Kurious' Mystery Mixtape and Slick Rick's Victory album were released as overpriced boutique vinylz, so is it really too much to ask to get CD releases of both? If a CD release is good enough for G. Dep's tracks from the 1990s then it's good enough for new releases by Kurious and Slick Rick.

Ezale's website is selling t-shirts, hoodies, hats, lighters, toy trains which you use as blunt passers, carbonated fizzy drinks and damn near everything except physical copies of his Town Taxes album. Rappers are so annoying sometimes.

Lil' M.U's Top Of Cars is definitely the 2025 equivalent of Dude 'n Nem's Watch My Feet. Unfortunately it didn't hit the UK top 40 singles chart like Watch My Feet did back in 2007 or 2008.

Checking the current UK top 40 singles chart, and the only rapper who appears is a white scally from Liverpool in a balaclava... and it isn't even the kid who made Packs and Potions.

Heeeeeeeeeeeere's Devi

"I ain't even trippin', it's nothin', I'm such a gentleman
Fresh out the belly, I'm feelin' high from this adrenaline
I'm tweakin', eyes dartin', hands tremblin'
Yeah, bitch, I'm right back like a Mexican immigrant"

Young Devi D - First Day Out
(From First Day Out single; 2025)


Welcome back to Kansas City's Young Devi D, a 2010s regional mob musik favourite of me, Rey, David Drake and Thomas 100 Grand On My Wrist. I almost unfollowed Devi on Instagram a few years back after he posted a story of himself in his prison cell listening to That Canadian Nonce™. Glad I didn't smash the unfollow button tho because I probably wouldn't have known he's out and right back like he left his child witcha. Hopefully he manages to stay outta prison this time because he was really onto something during his last bout of freedom in 2015/2016.

"My life a soap opera, I'm The Young & The Reckless
Iced out VVS1s on my left wrist
Triple beam scale, big powder in the crevice
I be goin' in, what the f**k is the exit?"

Young Devi D - Young Fly N*gga
(From Chess Not Checkers album; 2016)

Say cheesey part 2

LARussell ft. Snow Tha Product - Am I Blurry?
(From Am I Blurry? single; 2025)


To paraphrase the Dag Nasty lads, there's a thin line between slap and slop. When I discover an old Mac Dre song I've never heard before, I'm always nervous on my first listen that one of Dre's goons will pop up with a verse and ruin the track. It's a similar nervousness with a new LARussell song, but instead of a goon's verse, it's LARussell's own lyrics about streaming statistics or Instagram analytics which kill a track stone dead for me. That muhf**ker nearly manages to mess up his own song here by veering dangerously close to becoming a rapping LinkedIn profile. Thankfully he reigns himself in and doesn't ruin a ClayDough production that's the sound of the trans-BART express. Very unexpected but welcome guest appearance by Snow Tha Product looking like a Juggalo burglar.

I should probably pay more attention to what ClayDough produces. He's one of the keyboard lads from The Yee Section who is behind my favourite Seiji Oda song of 2025.

09 til Infinity (part 3)

BunnaB - Free Him
(From Sweet Lick album; 2025)

BunnaB · Free Him

BunnaB's best song since Mad Again IMHO. That production sounds like the most evil beat Drumma Boy never made. Free Him is Bunna's impassioned plea for her boyfriend to be set free from prison. Is it poetic license or actual factz? I have no idea, but the lass puts forth such a convincing and compelling argument that she could successfully moonlight as a lawyer. In fact, if BunnaB hadn't been 6 years old in 2009 she coulda/shoulda represented Max B in court rather than that hack Gerald Saluti. Fingers crossed the only reason this one hasn't been blessed with a video yet is because they're gonna go all out and shoot the best courtroom-set Rap video since Case Dismissed by Pretty Tone Capone.

Confessions of The One Bloke Who Survived The H-Bomb

"Last night I was dreamin'
I dreamed about the H-bomb
The bomb went up from outta the sky I was the only man on the ground

There were thirteen women and only one man in town
Ahhh, thirteen women and only one man in town
And as funny as it may be
The one and only man in town was me
There were thirteen women and only one man around"

The Renegades - Thirteen Women (movie version)
(From Some Finnish movie I don't know the name of; 1966)



AKA the latest instllment of Greatest Movie Scenes Ever.

If the greatest random performance of Rap song in a movie is Digital Underground & 2Pac doing Same Song in Nothing But Trouble, then the greatest random performance of a Rock song in a movie is either L7 doing Gas Chamber in Serial Mom or The Renegades doing Thirteen Women in a sewing factory in some Finnish movie I don't even know the name of.

A British Freakbeat cover of a Bill Haley & His Comets song, Thirteen Women is best described as Carry On proto-Groundhogs. The Renegades were a Birmingham band who were bigger in Finland than they were in England, but clearly had a huge impact on fellow Brummie dirtbags Black Sabbath. Musically, Thirteen Women is stomp-tremendo Garage Rock with haunted house organ; lyrically, Thirteen Women is a teenage wank fantasy episode of The Twilight Zone staring Robin "Confessions of.." Askwith and set after a nuclear explosion. This movie version of the song has slightly different vocals to the single version and the song flows far better as a story this way. Peep 1:00 for the singer pulling an orgasm-face in case his innuendo went over your head.

Generic list post: November 2025

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when Young Bleed died. Rapper deaths hit the hardest when it's an old favourite who was still making good music. And that's I haven't been this gutted about a rapper dying since The Jacka. I'm bloggin' with the violin, not hoppin' up for the downstroke while lil' papi plays the fiddle. R.I.P.

Strictly Dope - Never Be Beat (1990?/2007)
G. Dep - Stay Up (2008)
Tony Yayo ft. Max B & French Montana - Do It Right (2009)
TREE & Parallel Thought - Hang Out (2025)
OnlyHeaven - Text (On The Corner performance) (2025)
BunnaB - Free Him (2025)
WNC Whop Bezzy & 70th Street Carlos - GZ & Souljas (2025)
LARussell & Lil' Jon - I'm From The Bay (2025)
De La Soul - Don't Push Me (2025)
Kurious - When The Coffee Kicks In (2025)
RMC Mike - Right Now (2025)
Nine & Dex - Power Ranger (2025)
Onirico - Stolen Moments (1991)
Real Lies ft. Zoee - Summer Rain (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:
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)
The Flying Deuces (1939)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) *
Creep (2004)

TV shows I watched and liked:
Neighbours (new episodes) (2025)
Only Connect (new episodes) (2025)
Mastermind (new episodes) (2025)
Kingdom (series 1) (2025)
Celta de Vigo vs. Barcelona (2025)
Scotland vs. Denmark (2025)
Arsenal vs. Tottenham Hotspur (2025)
Arsenal vs. Bayern Munich (2025)
Match Of The Day 1 and 2 (new episodes) (2025)

Other stuff: peep my playlist of 1983 to 1985 Rap/Electro songs I found in the Mr. Bongo record shop and my look at YouTube videos for Rap songs from decades past.

Say cheesey

"It was 2006 I recall
Fresh white tee and it's crisp I recall
'40 dropped Tell Me When To Go that winter
It was all on the flo' that winter
Then $hort came through with Blow The Whistle for the summer
You wasn't outside back then, what a bummer
Nokia phones and H2 hummers
Hey lil' mama, can I getcha number?"

LARussell & Lil' Jon - I'm From The Bay
(From I'm From The Bay single; 2025)


I Need A Freak is the Mumm-Ra of early 80s Electro because that shit is Ever-Living™. LARussell & Lil' Jon are three for three on their collaboration slaps: Having Like This, I Got Flavor and this new one. Johnny The Boxxx called this 'Wholesome Hyphy', which would be the ideal title for the EP LARussell & Lil' Jon have planned. LARussell has the relentless cheeriness of a children's TV presenter and I ain't mad at that after the last half-decade of sour-faced NorCal child gangbangers. EBK Gorilla Zo-core rappers ain't dropping no songs with Mick Foley references.