Revenge Of The Jerk

YG - Knocka
(From Knocka single; 2024)


First time I've checked a new YG single since Swag in 2020 and he's only gone and dropped some fresh extratellestrial il grande Jerk redux shit which is right up my Grove Street. Initially thought that synth stab thingy is the It's Like That synth stab thingy, but now I think it's Raised Like This synth stab thingy. Whether It's Like That or Raised Like This, this is still a new YG single I can jam alongside a classic Ezale single. Two thumbs up like Run & D.M.C's heads.

My Mind Spray 6.5

Sum shit I learned when that Jeff Beck bloke died the other day: he played the insane guitar riff on that Yardbirds song sampled by Jacka's Murder Somebody.

Anyone with a passing interest in graffiti knows that Kase 2 only had one arm, but Skeme recently said that Kase also had a prosthetic leg. Graffiti guys - is this true or is Skeme indulging in some Five Percenter Arm Leg Leg Arm Head rhetoric?

Another way Marvel has negatively impacted modern culture: getting the video for Timbaland, Magoo & Missy Elliot's Here We Come perma-banned from YouTube due to its Spiderman copyright infringement. Luckily the video can still be found on Dailymotion.

November 13th 2023 is the date when Uncle Murda & Rocko's Wu Wuu Wuuu celebrates its 10th anniversary. Murda and Rocko flipping and bouncing a Martin Lawrence catchphrase over some Jahlil Beats production should have been a disaster, but it ended up being a killer multi-region collaboration which soundtracked a Brooklyn pawn shop commercial. I eagerly await Pitchfork's thinkpiece about Wu Wuu Wuuu being a key song in the post-language Rap canon.

Style Wars over Star Wars

If nothing else, 2020 will go down in the history books as the year when one of Hip Hop's oldest debates was finally settled - yes, Cap from Style Wars really is a toy!

There's nowt as noncey as grown men who are into toys, but I ain't mad at someone making their own personal Style Wars action figures. How very fitting that Min One's figure is a dead ringer for Moxie from Auf Weidersehen, Pet since he's ended up being the documentary's biggest dirtbag.

Most iconic use of Dion's The Wanderer: Style Wars or The Wanderers?