Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 13
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Watching Kano progress as an MC reminds me in some ways of a time-lapse video of a decaying apple I once saw at the Tate Modern. (Note: the video I linked to is not the same one, but I do believe it portrays equally as vivid an image, nonetheless.) In case that is too complex a metaphor for some readers, what I’m saying is he’s getting worse. And very quickly. At the start of the week his new mixtape, MC No. 1, arrived in the post. It makes for painful listening. There are pointless versions of stuff like “My Name Is” and “Crank Dat”; his slowed-down flow sounds lazy, and he does this weird screechy ad-lib thing that makes him sound like Scooby-Doo.
Last week on an episode of My Super Sweet 16 UK an aspiring WAG (that is the wife or girlfriend of a soccer football player, Americans) called Lauren had a special guest performer at her birthday. Rumours among her party of annoyingly rich but infinitely tasteless young guests were that Kanye West was to be the act performing on this most special of nights. It soon transpired that the surprise performer was in fact Kano, who was greeted with a wave of apathy by the horrified and underwhelmed guests. Listening to the opening bars of Kanye West’s “Stronger” on MC No. 1 and then hearing Kano, not Kanye, come in I could genuinely sympathise with how those poor children must have felt. Check out some of the tracks from the mixtape on his MySpace page.
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posted on Apr 24, 2008 in PRANCEHALL’S BASS ODYSSEY tags Ghetto, grime, Kano, Prancehall's Bass Odyssey
Video: Wiley vs Ghetto
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Another installment of Tim & Barry TV, another excuse to blog about grime, and another chance to reiterate how much we love Wiley. And how is grime over? Take it in doses and it’s still the awesomest shit ever. Like we don’t eat the same kind of cookie everyday and then say “cookies are over.”
