Bass Odyssey, Part 47
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Yep, like a cat that’s been locked out in the rain overnight for weeing on the new carpet, here I come, crawling back with my tail between my legs after another unnecessarily long hiatus.
I’ve come back just to tell you that Skepta and Wiley are currently “at war”/”beefing”/”desperately trying to muster up some hype around the time of their respective album releases”. (Side note: Skepta and Wiley were supposed to both release albums on the same day in a 50 Cent-Kanye-style face-off, and had posters all around London of them squaring up with boxing gloves on. But Wiley, being inextricably suffused in calamity, put his album back a week at the last minute, rendering the whole carefully organised campaign an utter waste of everyone’s time.)
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posted on Jun 18, 2009 in MUSIC NEWS tags grime, Joker, Prancehall's Bass Odyssey, purple, Skepta, Wiley
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.
Dollars To Pounds: Skepta-cism
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I’ve just got back from two weeks in Sicily and much as the combination of Mediterranean sun and extra virgin olive oil is good for the skin, there are only so many Latin-tinged power ballads blasted through a tinny beach-hut stereo that a man can take. So I was glad to get back to London and find the new Skepta album Greatest Hits on my doormat.
It’s not like 2003 when we’d religiously tape Rinse FM, pay over the odds for poorly-pressed Ruff Sqwad vinyls and wonder how soon it would be before DaVinChe got his call to produce for 50 Cent, but in other ways it’s been a decent year for grime. The holy trinity of Dizzee, Wiley and Kano have all released quality albums, Bizzle’s taken the fight to the indie kids, Trim and Tinchy are keeping busy, there’s been plenty of dubstep crossover chestplate business, and then there’s this guy Skepta.
