Disclosure go down a more funk route for a new track When A Fire Starts To Burn which is a new cut off their forthcoming debut album Settle.
May 24, 2013
ItsNate Feat. Milkavelli – Easy [Audio]
ItsNate is joined by Piff Gangs Mikavelli for his new single Easy. Listen to the Sumgii produced track below.
May 22, 2013
Skream Shares Two New Free Tracks On Digital Soundboy Website [News]
Skream and Digital Soundboy shares Mood To Funk and Diam; two heavyweight tracks available to download for free exclusively through the brand new Digital Soundboy website and Digital Soundboy Soundcloud.
Mood To Funk revisits the kind of hypnotic and melodic-driven basslines that confirmed Skream as one of the most innovative producers on the scene. With Diam, Radio 1’s Skream delivers a track sure to cause dancefloor carnage with its high-octane synth attack.
With Mood To Funk and Diam as rare opportunities to grab free music from one of the UK scene pioneers, make sure you visit Digital Soundboy’s website for these two un-missable free downloads. You can also grab WAVs of the tracks from the brand new website in exchange for just your email address.
Download Skream – Mood To Funk and Diam
May 22, 2013
Rukus & Meeks – Change Up [Music Video]
Birmingham’s Meeks drops the video to Change Up off his recently released mixtape Co-Lab-Adoration which sees Trinity’s Rukus join him for this collaboration.
May 22, 2013
Margs – Daily Duppy S.2 EP.3 [Video]
Mashtown’s Margs joins GRM Daily for their freestyle series Daily Duppy…
May 22, 2013
Dizzee Rascal – H-Town feat Bun B and Trae The Truth [Music Video]
Dizzee drops the video to one of my favourite tracks of his released in a while H-Town featuring two southern legends Bun B and Trae The Truth.
May 22, 2013
Lyrican ft. Harry Shotta – Take Me Alive [Music Video]
Harry Shotta joins Lyrican for his brand new video Take Me Alive.
May 21, 2013
MTV Wrap Up – UK Rap Rundown [News]
Spit TV brought to you by We Hustle TV re-launched last Sunday on Channel AKA – it began about ten years ago on Channel U, before the days of Youtube and Twitter. This is where the best emcess from the UK are invited to spit for around three minutes. Ras Kwame the host described it as ‘one take, one mic, one spit’. Link-Up TV released a behind-the-scenes video along with the visuals for the Eurogang and Frisco freestyles. Look forward to seeing the likes of Benny Banks, Joe Black, Geko, Griminal, Scrufizzer, Coops and many more…
An array of some of the hottest UK grime and rap emcees come together for the remix of Lethal Bizzle’s ‘They Got It Wrong’ originally featuring Wiley. Krept & Konan, Kano and Squeeksjumped on the remix to make it an all-star cast.
Another remix to drop last week was Sneakbo’s ‘Ring A Ling’ which saw Wiley and Krept & Konan give the Brixton rapper some heavy-duty verses on his next summer club banger. Expect to see a video for this one soon, as the track is released in July.
Young Spray reminds people that Northstar are originals in new track ‘Pull Your Pants Up’. “Only saw So Solid’s before the North Star Chain, only knew PDC when North Chain came. I saw the best come and go; the rest are dumb and slow.” He also shows respect to Giggs, Blade Brown and Asher D in the track.
Shak Corleone released the video to ‘Voice Of The Streets’ from his latest mixtape ‘Purgatory’. The Brixton rapper keeps it 100% road rap with the track featuring Lil Torment, Skore Beezy and Don Slice who all spit hard street bars.
PW is definitely a rapper who has a lot of heat surrounding him right now with a lot of co-signs from Dappy, Cover Drive and The Saturdays. His latest release ‘From PW With Love’ was well received and last week saw him drop the visuals to featured track ‘Here With You’.
UK rap veteran Mike GLC was the next up on SB.TV for his 3rd Degree freestyle. He spits over some classic joints with his effortless flow, showing people how it’s done.
Benny Banks gave us the visuals to track ‘48 Freestyle 1&2’ off his new mixtape ‘Patiently Waiting Vol 2’ which is available to download for free. The two laid back instrumentals allow for Benny to drop his classic relaxed flows which he is known for.
May 15, 2013
They Got It Wrong (Remix) Lethal Bizzle Feat. Krept & Konan, Kano, Squeeks, Wiley [Music Video]
Too much talent on this remix to Lethal Bizzle‘s They Got It Wrong and here is the video to the track featuring Krept & Konan, Kano, Squeeks, and Wiley.
May 15, 2013
MTV The Wrap Up: UK Rap Rundown [News]
Supa Dupa Fly for me is one of the best old school hip-hop & r&b nights in London, with music from the 90’s through to early 2000’s. Last Friday I went along to Jazz Café for one of their nights which saw Kings Of The City and Franko Fraize perform live. Franko’s British sound and modern take on his life and culture has led to comparisons with Mike Skinner, who is a fan of his work. He has a new track ‘Hand Me Downs’ so check it out…
Dizzee Rascal released two tracks last week, the first being ‘H-Town featuring UGK legend Bun B and Trae Tha Truth. Dizzee absolutely smashed it with this track, which is based on Houston’s culture. He also dropped the video to his collaboration with Robbie Williams called ‘Goin’ Crazy’, which sees the two on pimped out mobility scooters. What did you think about the track and video?
On Friday Dizzee also did an interview on 1Xtra’s breakfast show with Twin B where he finally spoke out on Wiley. Twin asked what he thought of other MC’s in the game, where he responded, “I want to put it out there openly, I haven’t got an issue with anyone.”
To confirm who he was talking about Twin asked if he meant Wiley and Dizzee went on to talk about their history. “[DJ] Target cared about me, early. Wiley never cared about me [from] early.
“Wiley eventually got me involved in the Roll Deep thing after I built a little name for myself. And it worked. We got on really well. I looked up to Wiley, I looked up to Target… As far as all that, I’ve actually not known Wiley longer than I’ve known him.”
He ended on saying just because people think he should work with Wiley it doesn’t mean he should and he’s just focusing on what he has to do – I think that’s all the clarification needed on the matter.
There are two mixtapes out that I definitely think are worth downloading. The first is from S-Squad’s Birmingham rapper Meeks, hosted by i Records DJ Cage. ‘Co-Lab-Adoration’ is a mixture of collaboration tracks showing an ample range of ‘who’s who’ in UK rap talent.
Mic Righteous released a free mixtape ‘Mic Wasn’t Thinkin’ as a thank you to the people who have supported him over the years. Make sure you get down to his headline show at The Garage in Islington which will see him celebrate the mixtape and also his birthday.
K. Koke released the lyric video to his new track ‘My Time’ with another Roc Nation singer, Bridget Kelly. The combination of the two blend well together and tells a story of the struggles of life and getting to where you want to be.
I’m going to end on Giggs’ Fire In The Booth which was his second on the Charlie Sloth hosted show. I was pleased to hear a variety of instrumentals from ‘Pop’ to ‘Started From The Bottom and ‘F**kin’ Problems’, which showed him switching up flows. He later said on Twitter: “Watch when I drop this bludklart album, that fire in the booth was light as day.” If that was easy work for Giggs, then we will be in for a treat when his album drops.
Until next time…
*published on Monday 13th May
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