Generic list post: february 2015

Obligatory monthly round-up posts of the songs I've been listenin' to most during the month when Zach G snitched on Chippy Nonstop and got her deported:

Tons of The Jacka (2001 - 2014)
Rich Homie Quan - Daddy (2015)
Lil' Chris - Got Her Own Shit (2015)
Wiz Khalifa - Smoke Chambers (2014)
Tink ft. Charlamagne Tha God - Around The Clock (2014)
Kevin Gates - The Law (2015)
Bandit Gang Marco - Get Low (2015)
White Gzus ft. Mic Terror - Return Of The G (2015)
Rocko - Strap On My Lap (2015)
Big Sean - Paradise (Extended) (2015)
Shaggy ft. Maxi Priest & Super Cat - Night Flight (2014)

What else? A-Wax dropped the most interesting Jacka tribute track even if it had very little replay value; Fetty Wap's new mixtape is a bag of shite other than my favourite song of january; One Time by Migos is the perfect follow-up to Fight Night in that it's a killer radio jam I'll pro'lly never listen to again of my own accord; Post Malone's White Iverson is a kinda catchy but utterly rotten viral experiment by the Cohen family & some saltine who was doing acoustic Bob Dylan cover versions in 2013; Just when Kendrick Lamar had developed his Digable Dru Down voice on i, he goes and raps like Sean Dyche on his new song The Blacker The Berry.

Rap songs that aren't on YouTube but really should be # 5

"Skydiver, she'll swallow the whole bottle
Take your Master and your VISA got you goin' desperado
But when she go low you feelin' like you hit the lotto"

Camp Lo - Material
(From Black Hollywood album; 2007)


Top 3 reasons why Material should be on the 'Tube: it's a top 5 post-Uptown Saturday Night song by the Lo; it's so luxurious you could take a bubble bath in it; it's a glaring omission from my best rap replays list and I need to make amends.

R.I.P to Nate Dogg, he bodied Warren G on Regulate

"I'm a real G, this ain't a movie
Cats lookin' for me, they Shaggy & Scooby"

DB Tha General - B's And C's
(From Gang Enhancement album; 2015)


Last year The Kid Ryan's No Boundaries posed an interesting question - could Regulate-core become a legitimate sub-genre of west coast rap. Finally we have an answer in the form of this new DB Tha General track - maybe, yeah. Naturally, the sun, moon and stars ensured the codification of this new offshoot genre could only happen during the same week as the Warren G X Kenny G collabo on Jimmy Kimmel.

Afraid I shan't be checking for any more new DB Tha General from hereon in due to his increasingly annoying penchant for constantly repeating his own lines in EVERY song. It's a practice that's neither big nor clever nor acceptable from anyone in 2015 unless Mike Jones passes the microphone to Albert Arkwright:

Chippy Nonstop got kicked out of AmeriKKKa and dumped in Canada!

Hawaiian Jack, Slick Rick, Shyne, MF DOOM, DJ Kenn, Chippy Nonstop... every generation gets the rap deportation case it deserves. No shots from this side, mind - whilst Chippy might represent the absolute nadir of Godawful ironic Tumblr-rap media nepotism, at least she's never perverted the course of justice by calling Das Racist's rape victim a liar as her BFF Kitty Pryde did that time.

Here at The Martorialist we'd gladly sign the Stop Chippy Getting Deported To Canada petition under the provision that it also meant Ryan Hemsworth could never again enter the U.S to ruin once-promising rappers like Sasha Go Hard with his regurgitated 8-th generation trip-hop beats or DJ shows in N.Y.C that'd be completely empty if not for his 30 leech buddies from Noisey and The Fader.

Ultimately, the blame for Chippy Nonstop deportation must lie on Wavery outcast and SoulStrut whipping boy Zach G's shoulders. Things were all fine and dandy on the Visa front until Zach recorded that dis song last year where he flat-out called Chippy a hairy smelly Indian before going on to accuse David Drake, Al Shipley and Andrew Nosnitsky of being racists:

Zach G - Can't Hate Right
(From YouTube; 2014)

*Guru voice*

It's mostly tha beat which makes you flip, it's mostly that bass which reminds you of a certain 2009 song by DJ Quik:

"Pussy n*ggas hate ya when you're climbin' up the ladder
Worryin' about me, n*gga, I fucked around and lapped ya"

Rocko - Strap On My Lap
(From Expect The Unexpected mixtape; 2015)


Thank you Bas(s)ed Rocko for making a song that sounds like what I wish Young Dolph songs sounded like. Gave this one a whirl in the car yesterday afternoon and that bassline turned me and mines into the ginger kid from Adventures In Babysitting:

Shout out to Gucci Souleymane

In the most touching display of Anglo-French unity since Gilles Grimandi stepped to Stefan Henchoz for fouling Ray Parlour that time, one of le français lads from zee rap internet turnt my Swag Rap Renaissance generic list of recent songs by Roscoe Dash, Fetty Wap, J Money & Yung L.A, Lucci, Mr.2-17, KO The God, Rae Sremmurd etc into a compilation. Download that shit HERE.

Like Officer Crabtree might have said to Rene, I hoop zey incloded zat noo Bondet Gong Merko zong too, zhough.

An Agallah compilation 4 u

After the show it's the after-party then after the party it's the hotel lobby and after Freddie Foxxx it's M.O.P then after M.O.P it's Agallah The Don B - the quintessential Brooklyn 'ardrock rapper with a gob that could strip paint and production skills to match.

If you're only familiar with Agallah as the guy from Purple City who had that song with Sean Price in the 3rd Grand Theft Auto game then this post should hopefully hip you to his history. Anything else you need to know about him is contained in this compilation which starts back in 1996 with the Alize 4 Dolo remix when he originally went by the name of 8-Off The Assassin and concludes with a couple of tracks from more recent times, including Blaze Of Glory where he checkmates Roc Marciano at his own game with his own style.

Not gonna front like I'm an Agallah expert, but I am a big fan of those moments when he does get it right and his catalogue is so ridiculously large and inconsistent that somebody needed to have a go at collating those moments when he does get it right into a 20 track best of compilation. Highlights include: The Crookie Monster is a song no other rapper could have made; the Adolf "8-Off" Agallar (Interlude) from Tony Touch's first compilation; Rising To The Top and It Ain't Easy are both top 10 NYC tracks of the noughties; Gangster might just be the missing link between Snaggapuss' freestyles on DJ Doo Wop's mixtapes and Max B's debut on Jim Jones' G's Up; the much-underrated Kraftwerk-sampling single Club Hoppin'; the aforementioned cut with Roc Marciano Blaze Of Glory.



Agallah The Joe Bish (compilation)

1. Alize 4 Dolo remix (w/ Mr Cheeks) (1996)
2. Till My Heart Stops (w/ R.A. The Rugged Man) (1997)
3. The Crookie Monster (1999)
4. 5 Star Millas (1999)
5. Adolf "8-Off" Agallar (Interlude) (2000)
6. Rising To The Top O.G version (w/ Sean Price) (2001)
7. Let's Get High (2001)
8. Telemundo (w/ Sean Price) (2001)
9. N.Y.C (w/ Ike Eyes & Sean Price) (2001)
10. Gun Go (2004)
11. Gangster (2004)
12. Rockin' (2004)
13. It Ain't Easy (w/ Shiest Bubz) (2005)
14. Picture Me Rollin' (w/ Shiest Bubz & Ike Eyez) (2006)
15. New York Ryder Music (w/ DJ Premier) (2006)
16. Club Hoppin' (2006)
17. Rap Bobby Fischer (2010)
18. Treez 4 Xmas (2011)
19. Blaze Of Glory (w/ Roc Marciano) (2013)
20. Vange (2014)

~~~> DOWNLOAD HERE <~~~
Plumped for the O.G Rising To The Top with Agallah sangin' the hook not to be a contrarian but simply because it's the superior version of the song. Feel free to swap it if you've grown up with the GTA III incarnation, otherwise you're best to stick with this version.

This is the first Bandit Gang Marco I'd pay 99p for if it weren't on a free Livemixtapes release

Bandit Gang Marco - Get Low
(From You Don't Know Me mixtape; 2015)


Linking two birds with one post here since Get Low by Bandit Gang Marco is both a notable addition to the Swag-Rap renaissance canon AND a pertinent reminder that Illegal Alien by Genesis is a song/video which actually happened IRL and not just inside Phil Collins' brain.