Doing It To Death

When the Grim Reaper gets on the good foot and sticks his toe in my arse, feel free to have a whip around to pay MC Hammer to dance at my funeral. Please, please, please tell me there's full footage of this Hammer tribute to James Brown?

Pour out a little Snakebite for Ozzy Osbourne

It's my turn to live like the Osbournes. Keep bloggin', baby, let's post until our eyes burn.

Ice-T - Midnight
(From O.G. Original Gangster album; 1991)


Ka - You Know It's About
(From The Night's Gambit album; 2013)

My introduction to Ozzy Osbourne? Watching Trick Or Treat at my m8's house in the late 80s.

Generic list post: June 2025

Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me
(From Confide In Me album; 1994)


Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when I discovered that Kylie Minogue went all Portishead in 1994 with this moody choon. In fact, I like this song so much it makes me forgive Ms. Minogue for half-arsing the Neighbours finale in 2022. Australia is hotter than Tha Block™, but the Sheilas hearts are colder than Antarctica.

Chill E.B - Let's Roll (1990)
3 Shades of Rhythm - Focus On The Witness (1991)
3 Shades of Rhythm - Reflections (1992)
Bored Stiff - Peaceful Rotation '92 (1995)
Mack Lew ft. Marq Dogg & Dangerous Dame - The Groom (1996)
Z-Man - Night Owl (1998)
Gift of Gab - Rhyme Like A Nut! (1999)
Bski aka B-Ski Rocks - Coast 2 Coast (1999)
Young Bari - I Rep That Blocka (2011)
Lil' M.U. - Top Of Cars (2025)
BunnaB - Ice Cream Girl (2025)
BunnaB - Mad Again (2025)
504icygrl - Work (2025)
Slick Rick - So You're Having My Baby (2025)
Slick Rick ft. Giggs - Stress (2025)
Aesop Rock - Send Help (2025)
Homeboy Sandman - Sound & Fury (2025)
Never On Sunday - Urban Rains (1992)
Real Lies - Shulgin (2025)
The Guy - Blaze or Die (2025)
The Guy - I'm The Guy (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:
Brief Encounter (1945)
Before Sunrise (1995) *
Idiot Box (1996) *

TV shows I watched and liked:
Neighbours (new episodes) (2025)
Belgium vs. Wales (2025)
England U21s vs. Germany U21s (2025)

Other stuff: did I mention that BigSleep dropped a killer set of compilations on his blog?; Party Sparty also killed it with his post about The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.

Camel Hunting Season (no Peedi Crakk)

Let's talk best live performance scenes in movies ever. There's the Ramones concert medley in Rock 'N' Roll High School; the Beastie Boys doing Desperado in Tougher Than Leather; Digital Underground & 2Pac doing Same Song in Nothing But Trouble; Cro-Mags doing Hard Times in The Beat; and my own personal favourite L7 as Camel Lips cranking out Gas Chamber in John Waters' masterpiece Serial Mom.


What the Gas Chamber performance has over the rest is that it features Donita Sparks and Jennifer Finch wearing prosthetic vulvas as they help Kathleen Turner light Justin Whalin's arse up like a Christmas tree. Any old musicians can perform a song in a movie, only L7 have ever performed a song in a movie while helping the movie's villain commit murder by pyromania. DEATH IN STEREO!

Last Kharas

"If life's a riddle with a song in, all the best ones sound like longing
And how I yearn to be with Shulgin"

Real Lies - Shulgin
(From We Will Annihilate Our Enemies album; 2025)


Quite a feat that "you know my life is full of cheap surprises, I gotta get offa the grid/it's as if these algorithmic freaks don't know who they're f**kin' with" ism't even the best lyric in Real Lies' latest single. Like Freddie Ljungberg in the final stretch of the 2001/2002 Premier League season, Kevlar Kharas & Pumpin' Patrice don't miss. The best way to listen to Real Lies: taking a long, tipsy piss in a moonlit city alley with neon-lit nightbuses whizzing by behind you.

Oh wait, you're here for Rap music, right? Okay, so my baby-blue bruv Big Sleep is putting together a 14 volume zipfile series (!) of Bay Area Jazz-Rap over on his blog. Volumes 1 and 2 are up now. Sleep's got the gift 2 gab too. Peep game:

Whether you know your Mac Ts from your Mack-Ts1 or not, there's somethin' for everyone here. Doesn't matter if you're listening to I.Q. or Eyeque. I got it all covered: from Dave Dub to Joe Dub, everything from dank smokin' killers to doja smokin' nerds. A who's who of “who's that?”, that'll make you sound like a group of owls listenin' to Mike Jones.

Generic list post: April 2025

Papo2004 & Subjxct 5 - Chopper City Pap
(From Papoholic, vol. 1 album; 2025)


Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when Papo2oo4 finally made a song I really fuxwit. Cot-damn, that beat sounds like Ralf & Florian remixed a Mannie Fresh track.

Big Scoob - Say It Loud (American & Proud) (2002)
Murs ft. Shock G & Humpty Hump - Risky Business (2003)
Murs - The Night Before (2003)
Myaap ft. Vae Vanilla & Tre 3200 - Feeling Dis (2024)
Myaap - Fairy (2025)
Ezale - On The Radar freestyle (2025)
Wiz Khalifa & DJ Fresh - What's Hannin' (live) (2025)
La Reezy ft. Malachi - Venus Fly Trap (2025)
504icygrl - Where He At (2025)
504icygurl - Throw Me Something Big (2025)
Real Lies - Arielle (2025)
Real Lies - Shulgin (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 Monster Club (1981) *
Tombstone (1993) *
La Haine (1995) *
The Descent (2005)

TV shows I watched and liked:
Neighbours (new episodes) (2024)
Doctor Who (new episodes) (2025)
Mastermind (semi finals) (2025)
How To Win The Champions League: José Mourinho (2025)
Arsenal vs. Real Madrid (2025)
Real Madrid vs. Arsenal (2025)
Aston Villa vs. PSG (2025)
Manchester United vs. Lyon (2025)
Barcelona vs. Celta Vigo (2025)
Crystal Palace vs. Aston Villa (2025)
Barcelona vs. Real Madrid (Copa Del Rey final) (2025)
Barcelona vs. Inter Milan (2025)

Generic list post: G.O.A.T late career singles IMHO

My lil' tribute to Angie Stone has got me thinkin' about the greatest late-career singles in music history. Creative sparks can disappear in a cocaine heartbeat and so it's a miracle when an artist 15 years deep into their career records a great single. So, here are the 30 best examples of this phenomenon according to me. I'm not sayin' all these songs were the last great single the particular artist dropped, I'm just sayin' the song is a Martorialist classic the artist dropped long after they first debuted.

Mac Dre - Feelin' Myself (2004)
Too $hort - Blow The Whistle (2006)
Howlin' Wolf - Evil (electric) (1969)
Dr. Dre ft. Snoop, Kurupt & Nate Dogg - The Next Episode (1999)
James Brown - Papa Don't Take No Mess (1974)
Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You (2001)
DOOM - Gazzillion Ear (2010)
Kurious - Cow's Eye (2024)
UGK - The Game Belongs To Me (2006)
E-40 ft. B-Legit & Stresmatic - Rear View Mirror (2011)
Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up (1977)
Diana Ross - Upside Down (1980)
Mystikal - Hit Me (2012)
DJ Quik ft. Suga Free & Ty Dolla $ign - Nobody (2011)
Young Bleed - Holla At Uh Dog (2011)
5th Ward Weebie - Let Me Find Out (2014)
LL Cool J - Luv U Better (2002)
Danzig - Black Candy (2010)
Ramones - I Don't Wanna Grow Up (1995)
Jamie Jupitor - Future Computer (2016)
Geto Boys - G Code (2005)
De La Soul ft. MF DOOM - Rock Co.Kane Flow (2004)
Busta Rhymes - Don't Touch Me (Throw Da Water On 'Em) (2009)
Ka - I Love (Moms, Mimi, Kev) (2020)
Chaka Khan - Like Sugar (2018)
Body Count - Talk Shit, Get Shot (2014)
Juvenile ft. Mannie Fresh - Party (2024)
The Isley Brothers - Between The Sheets (1983)
Common & Pete Rock - Wise Up (2024)
Mr. Fingers - Qwazars (2016)

I was gonna do this list in order of preference but gave up on that notion after the first song. Ranking and rating songs is for tubby music critics in t-shirts with stretched neckholes.

If we sacrifice Oliver Stone to a volcano can we get Angie Stone back?

The Sequence - Simon Says
(From Sugar Hill Presents The Sequence album; 1981)


R.I.P to Rap's soul sista number one Angie Stone, the O.G Queen of Hip-Hop Soul before Mary J. Blige. Real headz know that Simon Says is as good as Funk You Up and one of the last great Disco-Rap era choonz full stop. That shit thumps so doggone hard they had to call the national guard. But it's important to remember that Angie kilt shit like kitty litter in multiple decades.

Vertical Hold - Seems You're Much Too Busy
(From A Matter Of Time album; 1993)


As for Wish I Didn't Miss You, it's one of the greatest late-career singles of all time in any genre innit. Me, I consider it an even better song than Back Stabbers and plz believe that is not a slight to Back Stabbers. I just hope Ezale cut Miss Stone a cheque for that shit when him & HawkBeatz flipped it on Ironic.

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)

The obligatory BEST RAP SONGS OF 2024 post

UrFavGrannie - Boy Bye
(From Boy Bye single; 2024)


Martatina says cast ya votes. Tell E-40, yeah grab ya peacoats. Tell Lakim Shabazz, yeah grab ya notes. And DJ Kool & crew, y'all lads clear ya throats. Check it out, I'm bloggin' on the spot, postin' like an anvil ready to drop.

Nowadays, I'm at the point where I consider the modern music I like as the apex of contemporary art, and the modern music I dislike as the worst shit I've ever heard in my life. Listen, anybody can write words, who's prepared to do the dirty work like a swineherd? And searching for new Rap I like REALLY feels like dirty work when I've listened to eight terrible songs in a row just to find that one Killer Track™. Nobody ever said finding Legit Choonz™ would be easy, but when I'm lying on my deathbed I'll definitely regret the time I've wasted separating Rap music's thumbs up from its thumbs down. Fortunately, the pain and strain of listening to audio dung is eased when I come across Certified Gems™ like these songs. That's the beautiful thing about Bona Fide Jams™ - anybody can get 'em and anybody can give 'em to ya, they're like Secret Santa.

Favourite Rap songs of 2024 IMHO:
Mello Buckzz - Move
Ezale - Fun
GloRilla - Yeah Glo!
Kurious - Cow's Eye
LARussell & P-Lo ft. Malachi - Who Else You Know
Sexyy Red - Get It Sexyy
Seiji Oda - A Gentle Gigg
Common & Pete Rock - Wise Up
Pooh The WriteR - Bestie
Coyote - Devils Contract
Pookie F'n Rude - Hold Up
LL Cool J ft. Busta Rhymes - Huey In The Chair
Busta Rhymes - Do The Busabus Pt.2
Eatem - Start It Off
Mac God Dbo - A Whole Brick
Latto - Sunday Service
Brotha Hung Lynch - Da Siccness
41 - Save Me
Nef The Pharaoh - Essence
Mic Terror ft. Bruus - Big Steppas
Kendrick Lamar - Squabble Up
Doechii - Nissan Altima
Myaap & Yonaa - Choppa Sound
Bruiserwolf - Dope Boy
AMB EZ ft. Nasty Nell - Birthday (video mix)
BigXthaPlug - The Largest
Homeboy Sandman - Win Win
Daya1k ft. Kiki Tha Prize - Good
YG - Knocka
R.A.P Ferreira & Furnitake Tamura - Jes' Grew In Osaka
Heaven - In There
Ka - Borrowed Time
Rio Da Yung OG - Rio Free
Richie Rich & The Yee Section - Side Show (live at The Bakery)

Favourite British Rap songs of 2024 IMHO:
Nine & Dex - Pecan Pie
Knucks & K-Trap - Cautionary Tales

Favourite non-Rap songs of 2024 IMHO:
Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby
Tinashe - Getting No Sleep
Rajah Wild- Gone Bad
Mall Grab & Real Lies - Ripples In The Timeline
DMX Krew - Cloud Ocean Part 1
Alfonso de Vilallonga - Dog and Tin At The Beach
Beabaadoobee - Take A Bite
Mean Jeans - Reggie

Bonus beats: the 2024 late pass awards.

The 2024 late pass awards!

Year end season done took flight. Here at The Martorialist we're post-time, baby. That's why the old songs we discovered and fell in love with are as important as the new songs we discovered and fell in love with. If the Rap songs list below rings a bid-ell like Big L it's because ya host made a truncated Audiomack playlist out of it last month.

Best non-2024 Other Rap songs I discovered in 2024:
Hard Rock Soul Movement - Double Def Fresh (1986)
Professor X - Professor X (Saga) (1988)
LL Cool J - Illegal Search (Pre-Trial Hearing mix) (1990)
Jay Tee ft. Mac Dre - Do The Crew (CDQ version) (1990/2018)
Kurious - Fill 'Er Up (1991/2008)
G. Dep - Dollar Bill (1998)
Saafir aka Mr. No No - Street Scene (1998)
Warren G - Dope Beat (1999)
AZ - Rap Fanatic (2002)
Big Moe ft. Mike Wilson - Leave Drank Alone (2003)
Saigon - Favorite Thingz (extended version) (2006)
DaBanggaz314 - Run Up Get Dun Up (2009)
Rack-Lo - What's A Lo-Life To Me (2013)
38 Dezzie ft. Mouse On Tha Track - On My Shit (2021)
Pookie F'n Rude ft. Kedaru & Hash Hearted - One Of Them Dayz (2023)
TREE - Prom Night She Puked On Me (2023)

Best non-2024 Other Genres™ songs I discovered in 2024:
Flo & Eddie - Keep It Warm (1976)
Ramones - S-L-U-G (Road To Ruin mix) (1978/2018)
Keith Mansfield - Underlying Menace (1978)
Brian Bennett - Solstice (1978)
Haircut 100 - Nobody's Fool (1982)
Charlie Green - The Bus Stop (1983)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Police Helicopter (demo version) (1983)
Vincent Gallo - Her Smell Theme (1985)
The Feelies - Let's Go (1986)
Bribe - Squidge (1992)
Urban Jungle - Back In The Daze (1994)
Sharon Forrester - Love Inside (1994)
Rogue Unit - Good To U (Rogue Unit mix) (1995)
DMX Krew - Dry Acid (2015)

Holla @ ya host with your own late past discovery choonz of 2004.

Standing By Starz

The RAH Band - Messages From The Stars (12" mix)
(From Messages From The Stars 12" single; 1983)


LARussell & Cam Cortez - Beautiful Day In The Bay
(From From Vallejo With Love album; 2024)


Riddle me this, Blapman: how come Northen California is the only Rap region to recognise & realise the brilliance of The RAH Band's space-boogie classic Messages From The Stars? DJ Fresh freaked it for Keak Da Sneak back in 2011, and now Cam Cortez has hooked it up for LARussell in 2024. Basically, Messages From The Stars is the greatest Trevor Horn & Anne Dudley production which wasn't actually produced by Trevor Horn & Anne Dudley. Props to the song's #actual creators husband & wife Richard Hewson & Liz Winning; they put their whole artistic solar plexus into composing a choon which sounds like it was beamed down to Earth from a whole 'nother solar system.

Flip you, melon farmer!

Apropos of El Calvo Y La Cruz by The Plugz featuring in the latest episode of What We Do In The Shadows, here's some music from Repo Man the movie which wasn't included on Repo Man the soundtrack. Used in the scene where Otto chases J. Frank Parnell's Chevy Malibu through L.A's streets, it's some instrumental score work based on the movie's main theme by Steven Hufsteter & Humberto Larriva from The Plugz. True story: that East Bay Ray type Surf-Punk guitar as Otto frantically descends the freeway's steps at 0:55 is one of my favourite marriages of music and moving image captured on film. Call me the chairman of the (surf)board.


Another frustrating omission from the Repo Man soundtrack is the instrumental version of the main theme which was used during the opening credits sequence. It's time for an expanded reissue of the OST album which includes that track, all the Hufsteter & Larriva instrumental scores, and other frustrating omissions from the original OST album like Rhumboogie by The Andrews Sisters and See See Rider by Louis Armstrong. Ayo Alex Cox - put it all on a CD, son, I'll enjoy it more.

Bone Idol

Gen X - Dancing With Myself
(From Dancing With Myself single; 1980)


10/10 song from 1980 which became an 9/10 song when it was re-recorded and re-released as Billy Idol's debut solo single in 1981. The 1980 Gen X version is one of the greatest U.K Punk singles ever recorded, but I guess Billy F**kface here was too stupid to realise that because he toned down the guitar & bass considerably for the 1981 solo version. I'm not tryna get Enid Coleslaw on datazz, I'm just sayin' the 1981 version doesn't crank nearly as hard as the original and that's all fact no opinion. I always presumed Dancing With Myself was about Billy being lonely on tour and wanking in a Tokyo hotel room on some Lost In Masturbation type shit. Turns out I got the song's inspiration lost in translation because Idol's artistic impetus was seeing the crowd in a Tokyo club dancing with their own reflections in mirrored walls.

As a concept, Punk Rock is kinda cool. But as a culture, Punk Rock is invariably corny. Out of all the terrible British music critics, Those Blokes Who Can Only View Rap Music Through The Prism Of Punk Rock™ are the absolute W.O.A.T. Ain't gonna lie tho, some of the music is undeniable, particularly as a singles genre. Ergo, here's the official Martorialist top ten U.K Punk singles of all time in no order of preference.

The Damned - Neat Neat Neat (1977)
Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant (1977)
The Flys - Love & A Molotov Cocktail (1977)
The Stranglers - No More Heroes (1977)
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks (1978)
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't) (1978)
Subway Sect - Nobody's Scared (1978)
Gen X - Dancing With Myself (1980)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Happy House (1980)
The Jam - Funeral Pyre (1981)

Don't give me no lip that The Jam weren't a Punk band. They may have been rigged out in 60s Mod clobber, but them lads were a Punk band in sound until 1982.

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)

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)

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)

Generic list post: September 2024

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when J-S.A.N.D said "anybody can get it and anybody can give it to you, it's like secret santa."

Kurious - Fill 'Er Up (1991/2008)
Kurious - Untainted (2024)
LL Cool J - Illegal Search (Pre-Trial Hearing mix) (1990)
LL Cool J ft. Busta Rhymes - Huey In The Chair (2024)
LL Cool J - Basquiat Energy (2024)
Seiji Oda - Last Summer (video) (2024)
UrFavGrannie - Boy Bye (2024)
Nine & Dex - Jesus Piece (2024)
Ramones - M.P.S.C's TV studio performance (1976)
Ramones - S-L-U-G (Road To Ruin mix) (1978/2018)
Ramones - 7-11 (New York mix) (1981/2023)

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 Stranger (1946)
Charade (1963)
48 Hours (1982) *
Miracle Mile (1988)
The Mask (1994) *
Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
The Substance (2024)

TV shows I watched and liked:
Prisoner: Cell Block H (episodes 147 to 153) (1980)
Neighbours (new episodes) (2024)
Colin From Accounts (series 2) (2024)
Jamali Maddix: Follow The Leader (all 4 episodes) (2024)
Only Connect (new episodes) (2024)
Match Of The Day 1 and 2 (new episodes) (2024)

My Mind Spray 16

I copped the CD of that new LL Cool J album and he's only gone and printed all the song credits and shout outs in tiny red text on a black background which I can't even read properly with my magnifying glass. Rappers, if you learn anything from this blog then let it be the layout - white text on a dark background is unfadeable, baby.

Another problem with the new LL CD is that there's no tracklist on the back sleeve. An unforgivable rookie mistake from a rapper who dropped his first CD in 1985. Musicians should always have the tracklist on the back of their CDs and should always have the tracks numbered. If I crash my car searching for songs on the CD then I'm sending LL the bill for damages.

My m8 went to see Alchemist DJ on Saturday night and offered me his spare ticket. I declined because a modern day Chemical Alan DJ set would be fulla dreary-arse recent songs by Griselda, Action Bronson, Armand Hammer and Earl Sweatshirt & his boring m8s. If I go watch Alchemist spin choonz then I wanna hear his obvious old anthems plus his banger ne plus ultras like Agallah's Crookie Monster, Casual's I Gotta (Get Down), Saigon's Stocking Cap, Big Noyd's Shoot 'Em Up, Bang, Bang, Prodigy's Raining Guns & Shanks and Boldy James' Moochie.

Fave Rap videos of 2024: Move by Mello Buckzz; Fun by Ezale; Devils Contract by Coyote; Yeah Glo! by GloRilla; A Gentle Gigg by Seiji Oda; and Yankin' by LARussell & P-Lo ft. D-Lo & Malachi. It's nice to see rappers making an effort and coming up with visuals which enhance the songs and which make the songs best experienced in video-form.

Is Milo from The Mask the greatest dog companion in movie history? Loyal, smart, inventive, crafty, funny and cute (no Bodil Joensen), Milo was the perfect lil' homie. And, unlike Jim Carrey's other great dog companion in a movie Max from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Milo was played by a single dog and not six different near-identical dogs.