Video: Boy Better Know, “Too Many Man”
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We thought we’d leave you with this brand new visual gem from grime all-stars Wiley, Skepta, JME, Frisco and Shorty. Okay those last two aren’t really all-stars but they do have stuff to say about sausage parties. Maybe we don’t know as much about women as we thought, but wearing clown make-up and wrestling with our bros has never made phone numbers magically appear in our pockets.
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 15
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No one in grime bothers with pirate radio sets anymore, which is maybe the reason why the scene has been so boring and lacking life this year. So, just as the music press were penning another round of obituaries and preparing to make way for a new electro-influenced, chart friendly replacement, along come Boy Better Know and friends with a stupendously good studio set (the next best thing to a radio set) to bring back all the naysayers. It’s got classic old beats, amazing new beats by people like Rude Kid, excitement, brand new bars, energy, Jammer screaming and making retarded noises—everything that is good about grime. I don’t see why MCs continue to put out rushed mixtapes, when they could much more easily bang these sets out with all the best new beats and their best bars and sell them as downloads. They’d be a lot better quality and probably sell a lot more too.
Download: Boy Better Know, Microphone Champion
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posted on May 8, 2008 in PRANCEHALL’S BASS ODYSSEY tags Boy Better Know, grime, Prancehall's Bass Odyssey, Wiley
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 14
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I don’t mean to underwhelm but the above is the most exciting thing that has happened in grime this week. Yep, Boy Better Know have enlisted the help of 80s children’s TV presenter and vicar’s son, Timmy Mallett, to promote their all-singing, all-dancing non-phenomenon, the Rolex Sweep. The reason for using former TV favourite Timmy (I would guess) is as a substitute for any actual telly coverage the crew will be getting for the dance. The whole situation is reminiscent of the era when grime DVDs became really popular. The grime scene, frustrated at the lack of TV coverage it thought it deserved, released a load of documentary-style DVDs featuring in-depth interviews with incidental, yet painfully deluded MCs. The DVDs didn’t last very long and neither did most of the MCs.
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posted on May 1, 2008 in PRANCEHALL’S BASS ODYSSEY tags bassline, Boy Better Know, grime, Marcus Nasty, Prancehall's Bass Odyssey, Screama, T2
