Generic list post: june 2015

Obligatory roundup post of those songs I've listened to most during the month when Puffy should have paid Shyne to shoot up his son's football coach's office.

SPM ft. Baby Beesh - Oh My My (2000)
Baby Bash ft. SPM - Short Skirts (2002)
J Stalin - Pop My Collar (2005)
Nebu Kiniza - Myself (2014)
Dr. Yen Lo - Day 13 (2015)
French Montana ft. Chinx & NORE - Off The Rip (2015)
Lil' Chris ft. Sasha Go Hard - Ohh Na Na (2015)
Future - News Or Somthn' (2015)
Trill Younginz - I Look Fly (Martorialist Edit) (2015)
Willie P Keys - I Ain't Thinkin' Bout U (Martorialist Edit) (2015)
Trey Songz ft. Ty Dolla $ign - Loving You (2015)
Janet Jackson - No Sleeep (2015)
Charly Black - Gal You A Party Animal (2015)

Other notables: would have preferred WTF was a Nef The Pharaoh solo track TBH; really didn't expect the new TREE & Vic Spencer song to sound like a Pharrell production but it does and it works; Glory To The Lord by King Los & Kellz is the song B-Boy should have been; Kendrick Lamar had one job to do on the Classic Man remix and he made a complete pig's ear of it.

(PS - you can find some of the MP3s from this month's list in the most recent Martorialist compilation.)

Watch for the hook

Some of Nef The Pharaoh's lil' homies gettin' in the Swag-Rap renaissance is an interesting idea but there's two main problems with I Look Fly by Trill Youngins. Firstly, how y'all gonna hop on the Trill bandwagon when y'all hail from northern California? Y'all should be called Mainey Youngins innit. Secondly, that hook is so good I end up twiddling my thumbs through the rapping just waiting for it to reappear.

I can't do nuttin' for ya, man, with regards to their choice of moniker, but I can get DJ Step One to edit the song down to its bare essentials on some Cool Breeze type shit. And that's exactly what we did:

Trill Youngins - I Look Fly (Martorialist edit)
(From the internet; 2015)

Rap music? More like crap music amirite!

Did you know Sweaty Ken, Wee Stanky and Wankey Set are anagrams of KanYe West? The peanut gallery under The Guardian's review of KanYe at Glastonbury last night certainly do, and the comment section is the absolute treasure trove you'd hope it would be. Top 3 favourite exchanges:







Personal hot take on the KanYe set: no one man should have all that power to cut All Falls Down off before the "I can't even pronounce nothin', pass that Ver-Say-See" line.

I'm in a field in Somerset talkin' like it's just you & me

Have a load of some dickhead from The Guardian calling the 2 worst KanYe West singles since that clusterfuck he recorded for Mission Impossible 3 "nearly perfect Kanye songs" lol:



If KanYe brings out Jay-Z at Glastonbury tonight but not Twista and T-Pain then he's workin' for the FEDs. Oi A-Wax - dig up man's paperwork innit.

Just sayin', bruv # 10.5

A trifecta of actual facts about Bay Area rap on this humid friday evening:

Numero uno reason why Mac Dre & Khayree were one of the greatest rapper/producer partnerships ever: they made a genuine classic 5/5 rap song where Dre rapped over the phone from jail for nearly 6 minutes in I'm N Motion.

Be nice if some of the folks pontificating about Lil B being the most influential rapper of the last 5 years would acknowledge just how much a product of Oakland he is: Mac Dre was stylin' in Vans Eras a couple of years before The Pack dropped THAT song; B was the member of The Pack with the deepest voice until he switched his whole tone up and started rapping through his nose after DB Tha General dropped Welcome To The Navy in 2007; B's whole penchant for referring to himself as pretty and Jesus was liberally nicked from Husalah.

If Brian Coleman doesn't dedicate a chapter to Mac Dre's What's Really Going On EP in his next Check The Technique book then he's probably workin' for the FEDS. Top 5 EP of the early '90s no competition.

R.I.P Young Ready (AKA Racked Up Ready)

"The day they claim they all loved ya is the day ya died"

Enough rapper deaths this year already. If God really exists then why is he not taking some of these indie rawk and techno wastemen back to the essence instead? What purpose do Pete Doherty or Richie Hawtin serve in 2015?

Truth be told, I wasn't a big Young Ready fan, but he was involved in a handful of songs that I do love and I'll definitely miss his opportunistic beefing with practically every other Baton Rouge rapper bar his boy Mista Cain, his mentors C-Loc & Max Minelli, and Boosie, with whom he shared a baby momma. Here's 3 songs to remember him by:

Young Ready - Put Yo Money Down
(From Junkie Medicine compilation; 2006)


Young Ready from when he was young foreal. "I'm the snake eyes that gets rolled right out the gate, so your old lady gets passed like collection plates."

Tha Camp - 1 Rubber
(From Tha Camp's Break It Off! album; 2007)


Ready's best song and for that we should thank Mouse On Tha Track's bassline + Tha Camp 2.0's ability to present such a convincing case for wearing johnny hats. Very apt that a handwritten letter from Young Ready is one of Frankie Tha Lucky Dog's treasured possessions because it was via Frankie's old MySpace page that I found out about Ready's Break It Off! album with C-Loc & Max Minelli back in 2008.

Mista Cain ft. Young Ready & DJ B-Real - Mind Right
(From Mista Cain - Louisicain 2.5 mixtape; 2012)


A Mista song that Ready claimed as his own when Mista got sent down for murder. One of the hardest songs of 2012, which was no mean feat considering that was the year which gave us Gunplay's Jump Out and Fam-Lay's Clap Clap.

A recent(ish) jams 4 u compilation part 2

A follow up to this compilation, here's a RAR file of some more songs from the past 6 months (+ late december) that I've been feelin'. You know your friend who loves the YG album and Trap Queen but still posts Childish Gambino songs on his Facebook? Share this one with him innit.

V/A - Them Damn Buck Roger' Years Songs Volume Two

1. Nebu Kiniza - Myself (2014)
2. Lil' Chris ft. Sasha Go Hard - Ohh Na Na (2015)
3. 22nd Letter - Blunt On Me (2015)
4. Corn ft. Nef The Pharaoh - Old School Hyphy (2015)
5. Ty Money ft. Twista - Come Again (2015)
6. Audio Push - Normally (2015)
7. French Montana ft. Chinx & NORE - Off The Rip (2015)
8. Mr.2-17 ft. The Ratchets - Why? (2015)
9. Honey Cocaine - Honeydick (2015)
10. Slim 400 ft. Hunyae, YG & Big Quis - On My Set (remix) (2015)
11. J Hus - Dem Boy Paigon (2015)

~~~> DOWNLOAD THE COMPILATION HERE <~~~

Since Honey Cocaine originally hails from Canada I had to restore the equilibrium by including a song by a U.K rapper. Like RGF Island by Fetty Wap, Dem Boy Paigon by J Hus belongs to a new sub-genre of Dancehall-inspired rap, and if it's good enough for Westwood to play then it's good enough for you.

Savile Life 2

"Mama Mia, I wanna put somethin' in Aaliyah
Sippin' Sangria and smokin' on Maria"

SPM ft. Baby Beesh - Oh My My
(From Time Is Money album; 2000)



Oh boy @ that "Guess I been lookin' for love in all the wrong places" line!

This is the post where I become the rap equivalent of one of those Gary Glitter apologists who are like "yo, but he's still got tunes tho!" Probably booked myself a one way trip to Hades by posting two SPM tracks this year, but at least I'll get to spend the rest of eternity listening to Happy Perez-produced rap songs by #problematic artists whilst youz lot have to grit your teeth through endless rewinds to Doug's All The Way To Heaven. Don't worry about me, like SPM told his family after the judge sentenced him to 45 years in the bing - "it'll be okay!"

It was only fair that Baby Beesh got his own animated tattoo in the video and SPM didn't because double B kinda murdered Miguel Mars Bar on his own shit here: "I need a hearing aid or some handicapped parkin'/damn, Baby Beesh you so damn retarded!"