Generic list post: May 2022

My m8 caught Monkeypox. Luckily the doctor has gibbon him a strong chance of a full recovery.

Obligatory wrap-up post of those songs I've played most during the month when the Rap internet gave me a headache. A battle of (half)wits between "you MUST listen to Kendrick Lamar" guys and "I DON'T listen to Kendrick Lamar" guys. Personally, I need Silent Hill to be Lamar's next single so I can continue to call him the highfalutin Kid Ink: a good singles rapper who makes tediously bloated albums.

6 Shot - Cutthroat (2001)
Seiji Oda - Like This (album version) (2022)
Eatem - Cup Of Tea (2022)
Hitkidd & Glorilla - FNF (Let's Go) (2022)
Kendrick Lamar ft. Kodak Black - Silent Hill (2022)
Benzz - Je M'appelle (2022)
Knucks ft. SL - Nice & Smooth (2022)
Mr. Fingers - Coastline Paradox (2022)
Martin Slavin - Space Adventures Part 2 (1966)

Other notables: Phat Baby's Proper Play is a good bad-energy song; Kenzo B's Bump It might be the most notable Pulp Fiction soundtrack-core song since Hollywood Holt's The Show; Husalah's new song is more like an intro than a single; the same is true of Nef The Pharoah's Tattooed which could have been super sick if he'd bothered to turn it into a proper song.

Other stuff: peep me on Rap's G.O.A.T lost loosies. Also peep Party Sparty on his favourite movie soundtrack songs from 1957 to 2020 and Caroline Munro's best movie roles.

Phatman Returns Part 2

"Look in the sky - it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's his soul
Tell the doctor the pallbearer put ya picture on they clothes"

Phat Baby - Proper Play (FWS)
(From Profit Off My Pain album; 2022)


It seems like Baton Rouge caught the holy ghost of Lil' Phat judging by Eatem's recent homage and this Phat Baby single. Damn, this shit is colder than the White Witch of Narnia's tit. A good bad-energy song with murder raps so foul I need to listen to something positive and wholesome afterwards to restore my moralbiotic balance. Ricky D to the rescue:

"So listen, be strong, scream whoopee-doo
Go for yours 'cause dreams come true
And you'll make your mommy so so proud of you too
And this is a message that the Ruler Rick threw"

Slick Rick - Hey Young World
(From The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick album; 1988)


PS: Instagram informs me that LL Cool J's Bigger and Deffer album was 35 years old yesterday. To celebrate can we get his performance of Go Cut Creator Go on Saturday Night Live back on YouTube?

Larry Heard 'Em Say

Mr. Fingers - Coastline Paradox
(From Around The Sun album; 2022)

That's me the first time I heard this new Larry track. Talk about a Coastline Paradox - I started seein' Saturn in Blackpool. House music all life long in every parallel universe.

2-17 'til Infinity

Mr. 2-17 - Strong Arm Flexxin'
(From Know What I'm Sayin' Pt 2 mixtape; 2014)

Mr. 2-17 · Strong Arm Flexxin' [Prod. by Mr. 2-17]

I want to live in a world where people love Strong Arm Flexxin' as much as Walked In. The two G.O.A.T plink-plink-plonk piano Swag-Rap songs of the 2010s and Mr. 2-17 produced the pair of them. Might start a petition to get 1Up Society's Strong Arm Flexxin' dance video reuploaded to YouTube.

Glorillas In The Midst

Hitkidd & Glorilla - FNF (Let's Go)
(From FNF (Let's Go) single; 2022)


He's The producer, she's the rapper. Some insanely 'ard Memphis shit that's best described as BlocGal JB or Daisy Deuce. Found this via Yung Cat's remix of it dissing his baby-mamma & her new boyfriend.

Yung Cat - I'm Outside TBF (FNF remix)
(From YouTube; 2022)

In The Woods

"Bossed up but I'm still bummy
Say you real, yeah, that's real funny
You ain't fam, can't get shit from me
All 2020 finna go dummy"

Seiji Oda - Like This
(From the internet; 2020 + lofi // HYPHY album; 2022)


Finally one of Seiji Oda's best songs has a video. One of his most important songs too since AERO, Like This and BLUE were the genesis of his golden hour gentle giggin' sound. As for the video, it's all about that green for them Boyz-n-the-Wood. A lotta these new NorCal rappers' whole style is outdated, f*ck being hard, Seiji Oda is conservation-orientated.

Bonus beats: where's the WAKE UP video at? Your favourite rapper would never have the vision to drop the top and ventilate their third eye with a visor bucket hat.


Seiji brought a whole different odour to Bay Area Rap, ya smell me? It's some Yin & Ylang-Ylang cosmic harmony: burnin' rubber holdin' choppas whilst burnin' Nag Champa realigning his seven chakras. Or sumfink lol.

Generic list post: G.O.A.T lost loosies

Martibus is back up in a room with 1000 candles lit, meditating on this Rap shit. Who's down to talk G.O.A.T lost loosies? Let's define lost loosies as songs which have never appeared on any album/mixtape/EP and have never made it to any DSP or MP3 store. What we're looking for here is MP3s from the Zshare/Hulkshare/Digital Dripped eras, MySpace page tracks, YouTube-only singles, original versions which remain in official purgatory, Soundcloud exclusives, and songs from stupid rare boutique vinylz 7" singles which have unofficially found their way online. Here's some personal favourites.

Black Rob - New York (2006)
The Jacka - Heavy Rain (2007)
Max B - Take A Flick (2007)
YG - Aim Me (2008)
3 Deep - Say What I Wanna Say (2008)
Prodigy - Raining Guns & Shanks (2008)
Jackie Chain ft. Jhi-Ali - Rollin' (O.G version) (2008)
Witchdoctor - Rich & Poor (2009)
ABN - Rain (O.G version) (2008)
Crime Mob - What Is Love? (2008)
The Cool Kids ft. Lil' Wayne - Gettin' It (2008)
Lil' Boosie - Top To The Bottom (2009)
Beeda Weeda - Bassrock Babies (O.G version) (2010)
Consequence - Alphabet Boys (2010)
Fam-Lay ft. Project Pat - Money Makin' Trick (2011)
King Louie - We Like To Party (2011)
Fat Trel - Rolling (2011)
Mic Terror - Heaux Love Me (2012)
Pablo Skywalkin - All Facts (2013)
K Kutta - Lum Lum (O.G version) (2013)
Kurious - Best In The World (2014)
Lil' Chris - Gods Crying (2015)
22nd Letter - Blunt On Me (2015)
MF DOOM & Madlib - Avalanche (2016)
White Gzus ft. GLC - G Is For Green (2016)
OMB Peezy - Loyalty Over Love (2017)
Lil' Wayne - Dinnertime (2007/2017)
Ya Boy Big Choo - Halloween Beat (2017)
Flo Milli - White Girl Mia (2018)
Edan - Real Bad Promo (2018)
Valee - Allat (2018)
Eatem ft. Lil' Larry - Hit Da Drink Twice (2019)
Seiji Oda - House Shoes (2021)
Homeboy Sandman - Yup, Do It! (2021)

Shine some light on your favourites, folks - don't let shit go dark here. The type of dark that makes a house haunted, the type of dark that bloggers get lost in, the type of dark you fear when you dead in a coffin.

Nice & Good, not Nice & Smooth

"You already know what the brand is, so overlooked but they don't understand it
But understand I'm a bandit, I'm takin' their Lamb and I'm makin' a banquet"

Knucks ft. SL - Nice & Good
(From Alpha Place album; 2022)


On one hand, this is a MOBO Award winner type U.K Drill song. On the other hand, I like the London Posse type back-and-forth between Knucks & SL over the Pot Noodle Western high noon stare-down production. Verdict: I ain't gonna front on this tune just because Knucks is an Alexis Petridis-bait artist. Bonus points for avoiding my biggest pet peeve with U.K Rap - British men using the words feds and bando.

Okay, that's quite enough U.K choonz for now..... unless J Hus drops some hot new shit, natch.