Grime/Hip Hop

[t0paz]

I think the issue with 2017 was the Craig David audience beforehand and a large number of people mainly there for Corbyn afterwards.

Personally I really enjoyed it though.

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

Yeah same, I stayed after Corbyn and then hung around for Katy Perry if my memory serves me correctly? I thought they were really good to be fair, although I was incredibly high by that point so they could very well have been an absolute car crash.

[Winslow Leach]

I really enjoyed RTJ on the Pyramid, probably as much as I did on WH. Place went off down the front.

[dentalplan]

I preferred the Pyramid because I liked being able to hear them.

[Nduja]

3 hours ago, dentalplan said:

I thought the production on Spaceman was off the scale, but wasn’t all that impressed by Octavian’s lyrical content or delivery or anything. Will stick with him though because he’s clearly got an ear for a banger.

Yeah, you are right. Lyrically there isnt a great deal going on but the range of styles that he cycles through is impressive and it all just seems to work. The voice makes it in a lot of ways.

He can flow a little bit too, he's a bit like Travis Scott in that regard where he floats about crooning for a lot of the time and only hits a flow on occasion. But when it hits, it's super-effective. I'm thinking about Sleep as an example and also on A2's Flair.

The spoken word bits work really well live for the song to song transitions before another dose of energy is injected.

Edited October 12, 2018 by Nduja

[Winslow Leach]

7 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

I preferred the Pyramid because I liked being able to hear them.

Yeah you know what, I preferred the Pyramid too, and I don't care who knows it Dental, I don't care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dentalplan]

6 minutes ago, Nduja said:

Yeah, you are right. Lyrically there isnt a great deal going on but the range of styles that he cycles through is impressive and it all just seems to work. The voice makes it in a lot of ways.

He can flow a little bit too, he's a bit like Travis Scott in that regard where he floats about crooning for a lot of the time and only hits a flow on occasion. But when it hits, it's super-effective. I'm thinking about Sleep as an example and also on A2's Flair.

The spoken word bits work really well live for the song to song transitions before another dose of energy is injected.

That’s true about Trav actually. It’s mostly his beats I like too but there are just those moments where he hits a sweet spot. Will dig deeper into Octavian’s stuff to try and get a bit more of that.

The thing about spoken word def sounds interesting in joining up the songs so I’m hoping to catch him at some point.

4 minutes ago, Winslow Leach said:

Yeah you know what, I preferred the Pyramid too, and I don't care who knows it Dental, I don't care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love a Pyramid don’t ya Giza?

[Alex DeLarge]

Thought RTJ were great on the Pyramid, seemed to get a good general crowd reaction from where I was to.

[Nduja]

47 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

That’s true about Trav actually. It’s mostly his beats I like too but there are just those moments where he hits a sweet spot. Will dig deeper into Octavian’s stuff to try and get a bit more of that.

The thing about spoken word def sounds interesting in joining up the songs so I’m hoping to catch him at some point.

Love a Pyramid don’t ya Giza?

Feb dates in Manchester and London, March in Bham went on sale today as part of a European tour. Not sure about whether there are any left. Think summer festivals next year are inevitable so will hold off for that.

[Radi0Head]

A grime documentary on BBC 4, what ever next. That really ruffled my feathers. I just don't understand the youth of today.

[EZYSEY]

On 10/12/2018 at 3:09 PM, Matt - Ed Banger Records said:

What was the issue with the 2017 performance? I was at both 2015 and 2017 and don't recall there being any kind of drop off in audience or performance from a personal level.

For me it was a combination of time, location, acts before and after, my buzz and audience. Missing Loyle at  back of my mind may have also contributed. Don't get me wrong they were still good but the WH performance had a bigger party vibe and a better slot at like 8ish if I remember rightly.

[Nduja]

2015 was ace also because it coincided with a nice evening emerging after an earlier downpour.

Also in 2015 they were quite firmly the world's premier rap group whereas 2017 was unquestionably the year of Migos.

[dentalplan]

Track of the year is now vidded up.

 

[Impropaganda]

Hopefully too many t's will be back after missing 2017

[elbongo]

Very impressed with Hak Baker I must. 6 track EP is cracking. If not mentioned previously...

https://youtu.be/3hsEQe5JjPY

 

Edited October 19, 2018 by elbongo

[elbongo]

Ignore. Seems I is forgotten how to embed vids 

Edited October 19, 2018 by elbongo

[dentalplan]

1. The Chase (feat. Kadhja Bonet)
2. Headlow (feat. Norelle)
3. Tints (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
4. Who R U?
5. 6 Summers
6. Saviers Road
7. Smile / Petty
8. Mansa Musa (feat. Dr. Dre & Coco Sarai)
9. Brother’s Keeper (feat. Pusha T)
10. Anywhere (feat. Snoop Dogg & the Last Artful, Dodgr)
11. Trippy (feat. J. Cole)
12. Cheers (feat. Q-Tip)
13. Sweet Chick (feat. BJ the Chicago Kid)
14. Left to Right
 

 

Tracklist out for Oxnard now. Still think Tints is garbage, and I'm sad to see Bubblin isn't gonna feature on it, but some of these featured names - and no doubt the producers still to come - got me pretty excited for this.

[Gucci Piggy]

.Paak gonna drop aoty without even needing Bubblin' on there 

[grilladelphia]

53 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

1. The Chase (feat. Kadhja Bonet)
2. Headlow (feat. Norelle)
3. Tints (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
4. Who R U?
5. 6 Summers
6. Saviers Road
7. Smile / Petty
8. Mansa Musa (feat. Dr. Dre & Coco Sarai)
9. Brother’s Keeper (feat. Pusha T)
10. Anywhere (feat. Snoop Dogg & the Last Artful, Dodgr)
11. Trippy (feat. J. Cole)
12. Cheers (feat. Q-Tip)
13. Sweet Chick (feat. BJ the Chicago Kid)
14. Left to Right
 

 

Tracklist out for Oxnard now. Still think Tints is garbage, and I'm sad to see Bubblin isn't gonna feature on it, but some of these featured names - and no doubt the producers still to come - got me pretty excited for this.

agreed Tints was a bit of a flop - but VERY excited for this album, although the nxworries stuff he did with knxwledge is (IMHO) the best stuff hes put out

[EZYSEY]

Childish Gambino's O2 dates have been put back to March next year. Would like to see him on the farm. Really liked "This is America". 

[FakeEmpire]

Tints is alright as an accessible pop single.   It's doing its job - B List on 6 Music, C List on Radio 1.   After supporting Bruno Mars on his arena tour, it made sense that he would move into this lane.

Tracklist does suggest we'll be getting some more classic Paak as well.

[grilladelphia]

Whats the odds of a few High Focus artists? Dabbla's new album is a banger (although released on Potent Funk)

[bigfurbdogg]

On 4/14/2018 at 12:00 PM, FloorFiller said:

Posted in the new music thread but figured it might get noticed more here by people interested. The new Saba album Care For Me is incredible. Best rap release I've heard this year by far.

 

Cheers for this recommendation, just got round to listening to it, special album, Saba is stupidly talented. 

[FloorFiller]

Oh shit new Vince Staples album coming tomorrow

https://pitchfork.com/news/vince-staples-releasing-new-album-fm-today/

[Gucci Piggy]

9 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

Oh shit new Vince Staples album coming tomorrow

https://pitchfork.com/news/vince-staples-releasing-new-album-fm-today/

Isn't a proper album, is it? He said he's taken a break from recording his album to do this, but I haven't really read enough about it to know the whole deal.

It's leaked, anyway, if anyone wants to listen now without waiting til tomorrow. Reaction I've read seems pretty mixed.