UK Grime/Dubstep etc.
[MP3 + Music Video] Headie One x Drake – Only You Freestyle
Apparently too grimy for Mavado!
[Music Video] Wiley, Sean Paul, Stefflon Don Feat. Idris Elba – Boasty
STRAIGHT FIYA!
Stream or download/buy the “Boasty” MP3 HERE.
[MP3 + Music Video] GAIKA – Crown & Key
New joint from the UK’s GAIKA from his forthcoming (July 27) album. Peep the science in this PR blast:
GAIKA presents his debut album, BASIC VOLUME, after captivating listeners with a blistering pair of acclaimed, self-released mixtapes Machine and Security and Warp-released EPs SPAGHETTO and The Spectacular Empire. Now GAIKA’s darkly magnetic blend of gothic dancehall and industrial electronics has expanded into his most far-reaching work yet.
BASIC VOLUME is a sprawling yet cohesive album that devours genres and spits them out, tangled around personal tales of love, loss and rebellion. With BASIC VOLUME,GAIKA continues to simultaneously push the boundaries of electronic music and the legacy of the UK’s indelible soundsystem culture, inviting listeners into a sonic world of his creation. The 15 track collection is co-produced by GAIKA, with additional production from similarly forward thinking contemporaries, including SOPHIE, Dutch E Germ, Dre Skull and DADRAS, Aart as well as previous collaborators including Jam City, Nick Leon and Frank Ocean’s Blonde and Endless collaborator Buddy Ross.
BASIC VOLUME is today announced by the explosive arrival of ‘Crown & Key’. A muscular rallying-cry, ‘Crown & Key’ is accompanied by truly captivating, cinematic visuals, directed by Paco Raterta. Raterta says “The first time I heard ‘Crown and Key’, it reminded me of the funeral chants in the chapels of the village where I grew up, and it opened up all the biblical nightmares I use to have as a kid. If you know Christian visuals, they are very grotesque, stiff and very beautiful at the same time. The camera movement is inspired again by my memories as an altar boy, it’s basically a POV memory of mine, entering the church, carrying the bible and seeing everyone around, but the faces were always never clear, I can feel like they are looking at me, but I don’t see them at all.”
[MP3] Here’s All The Recent #DrakevsMeek Tracks You Need To Be Up On and More!
Two salvos in the #DrakevsMeek war and a couple other CDQ’s for tracks Aubrey premiered on his new Apple Music OVO radio show. Or am I wrong here? I’ve been told that “Hotline Bling” might be another dis track??
My take on this in this so-called beef could be way off but I feel like Meek Mills, after opening this can of worms, has been largely M.I.A. and taking crazy L’s? Dude was here in The 6 last night on his girl, Nicki Minaj‘s Pinkprint Tour and, with the eyes of the whole world (or at least hip-hop twitter) on him, was poised to drop a neutron bomb in response to Drake’s dis tracks and then… nothing??! Someone s’plain this to me, please!
Beef aside though, as a bonus, hit the jump for Drake’s cameo on Wizkid‘s “Ojuelegba (Remix)” also featuring buzzy UK grime MC, Skepta which dropped a couple weeks back ICYMI:
[MP3] T-Pain – Disa My Ting Feat. Kardinal Offishall
Had to post this one because of the old work connection and T.dot connection. Shout to Pain and Kardi for this banger of a track. Very grime influenced also, no??