I Got That 'Werk

R.A. The Rugged Man - How Low
(From Die, Rugged Man, Die album; 2004)

R.A. The Rugged Man · How Low

File this under 'legit club bangers which have NEVER been played in a club.' A pity because How Low woulda/coulda/shoulda rang out nicely in a nightspot next to summat like New York. Honestly, this is my favourite Rugged Man song, and it's a miracle he pulled a song like this off. Granted, the Kraftwerk sample is a total cheat code, but R.A reined his usual idiosyncrasies in and got the tone pitch perfect for such a track.

Gossip Folks

Nine years after my ridiculously-viral post about Ludacris using Fatlip to mimic Mac Dre in the Get Back video, Fatlip has addressed it on a Bay Area podcast called The Bankski Show. Alas, it's over 90 minutes long so I won't be watching it. However, there's a 10 minute clip about a recent Instagram exchange between Mac Dre's m8 Sleep Dank and Fatlip where the latter mentions "a blogger who looked at that video and made the claim" and the podcast host talks about Mac Dre fans who'd seen my post houndin' Ludacris on Twitter and forcing him to deny it. Lads, control your hormones and keep your drawers on. It's time Farrakhan steps in and convinces everyone involved that it was Spike Jonze's fault. When you see a devil blame him.

If we sacrifice Juan Mata to a volcano can we get Juan Atkins back?

Cybotron - Cosmic Cars
(From Enter album; 1983)

Cybotron · Cosmic Cars

To paraphrase Shaun Of The Dead: it's not Techno, it's Electro, you prick!

Pour out a little of your favourite fluid for the O.G Electro don Juan Atkins. No lie, I've spent a significant portion of my life on the Atkins diet via his music as Cybotron, Model 500, Infiniti and his Timeless mix CD. Sadly, Atkins was one of those pioneering American electronic musik artists who was more reverred in Europe than he was in his home country: as the old saying goes, the average American thinks Juan Atkins played for Real Madrid. Still, Don Juan was the only person from the Detroit electronic musik scene who ever made a track which crossed over to become a Hip-Hop classic with Cybotron's Clear. I hope Heaven got an autobahn for Juan to have fun, fun, fun in his Cosmic Car forever ever.

Infiniti - Game One
(From Game One single; 1994)

Infiniti · Game One

Generic list post: October 2026

Vanessa Van Deusen - Vanessa Van D
(From Vanessa Van D single; 2026)

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when Stella Lefty's billionaire dad should dip into his pockets to make Vanessa Van D a hit. Damn, this shit is catchier than herpes on a Weatherspoons pint glass. Max Martin & his bork songwriting sweatshop couldn't whip up some pop choonage this good in a month of blue mondays. Hat tip to Johnny The Boxxx.

The Furious Five & Grandmaster Flash - The Message (live on TV) (1982)
J.U.I.C.E - The Original (1998/2023)
J.U.I.C.E - Hip Hop Ish (1998/2023)
Molemen ft. Rhymefest - Prepare For The Fest (remix) (2000)
Young Dro - Fresh (video) (2006/2026)
Young Dro - Presidential (video) (2006/2026)
Mic Terror - Whole Time (2026)
BunnaB - Trip (2026)
Bankroll Ni - Chosen One (2026)
Pac Div - Slider (2026)
Doggystyleeee - The West Ain't Dead (2026)
Musikos Music Library - Track 5 (1991)
Kemistry & Storm - Signature (1994)

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:
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Dracula (1958) *
Take It Or Leave It (1981)
Serial Mom (1994) *
24 Hour Party People (2002) *
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House (2026)

TV shows I watched and liked:
The Reluctant Vampire (series 1) (2026)
Mastermind (new episodes) (2026)
Only Connect (new episodes) (2026)
Arsenal vs. Leeds (2026)
Arsenal vs. Lille (2026)
Manchester City vs. PSG (2026)
Real Madrid vs. Seville (2026)
PSG vs. Barcelona (2026)
Bayern Munich vs. Arsenal (2026)
Aston Villa vs. Manchester City (2026)
Manchester United vs. Bournemouth (2026)

Other stuff: peep my updated Martorialist classics not on DSPs playlist.

Rock On

Method Man & Redman - Da Rockwilder
(From Blackout album; 1999)

Man, this song sounds even better in 2026 than it did back in 1999. Da Rockwilder was one of the few keyboard-beat anthems which didn't send the box-brained Jansport brigade scurrying off the dancefloor in disgust at U.K Rap nights back in the day. Redman says there's a longer version of Da Rockwilder somewhere in Def Jam's vaults, but him & Method Man thought that the song ending on the Hand On The Pump interpolation was perfect. I see/hear their vision and agree, but they should have released the song's other half as a part 2 on the B-side of 12" single. A B-side which is just another track from the album is a wasted opportunity and a not-so-beautiful use of negative space.

Whole Lotta Love

"Whole time I'm preachin' to the youngins stop the beef
Whole time I just rolled an opp up in my leaf"

Mic Terror - Whole Time
(From The Terror Files album; 2026)

Whole time Terror's music is what Nas meant when he said there's only Mic. Life's contradictory impulses summed up in those two lines up top. Can we have a video for Lyrical Shit next plz? That shit is a Mic Terror manifesto in song form.

"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)

Hat tip to Bobby Dee

For decades, DOOM fanboys have been trying to identify the sample from King Geedorah's Fazers to no avail. The only clue was in this 2003 interview where DOOM said it was from "some p*rno with a skinny guy in cowboy boots with 2 chicks with him" which his friend/the song's co-producer E-Mason was watching in the studio. 23 years later, a DOOM fanboy finally found the track it comes from on an early 90s library muzak album. DOOM was an unreliable narrator known for bullshitting journalists and fanboys alike, but it's very plausible it could have been used in a smut flick, right? If DOOM fanboys ever find the movie it was used in then that shit is gonna go triple platinum on XHamster.

Musikos Music Library - Track 5
(From Musikos Music Library 254 album; 1991)

Sam · Musikos Music Library - 254-5 (1992) ["Fazers Sample"]

Trippin' Balls

BunnaB - Trip
(From Trip twingle; 2026)

BunnaB · Trip

Finally this song drops after countless snippets. More importantly, finally Atlanta Rap ups the BPMs. You can learn a lot about life from Rap songs and what we have here is BunnaB's guide to Game 4 Girlz. It's edutainment, Jim, but not as KRS One knew it.