Blatantly Blunt - grime & hip hop from the streets to the clubs: February 2009

Make sure you listen to this big boy mix from the dan-danna of the uk hip hop mixtape/DJing game, MK. In case you've not heard of him, MK's been around longer than you think, originally hosting the Capital FM hip hop show with the big dawg tim westwood.

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DJ MK VOL 17 - LONDON GO HARD

1 - DJ MK INTRO
2 - KYZA - JUDGEMENT DAY
3 - JAY Z FEAT SANTOGOLD - BROOKLYN GO HARD
4 - LIL CEASE - FABOLOUS - BUSTA RHYMES - TALK GO THROUGH US
5 - RAMSON BADBONES - BLAK MAGS FREESTYLE
6 - DE LA SOUL - EXCURSIONS 2009
7 - 50 CENT - I GET IT IN
8 - JAY Z - WHEN THE MONEY GOES
9 - DJ MK/ JOELL ORTIZ FREESTYLE
10 - N.O.R.E. - ROTATE
11 - RED CAFE - SO EASY RMX
12 - RAEKWON & GHOSTFACE - CRIMINOLOGY 2
13 - BUSTA RHYMES , YOUNG JEEZY, JADA- CONGLOMORATE
14 - Q-TIP - RENAISSANCE RAP RMX
15 - DRAKE - IGNORANT SHIT
16 - PHARRELL - LIL WAYNE - YES
17 - DJMK / SWAY FREESTYLE
18 - LUDACRISS - LAST OF A DYING BREED
19 - DRAKE - LIL WAYNE - SANTOGOLD - UNSTOPABLE
20 - INJA - FALACY - HAT LOW
21 - TERROR DANJAH FEAT BADNESS - GET UP
22 NEWHAM GENERALS - HEAD GET MANGLED
23 - 50 CENT - SHUT YA BLUD CLART MOUTH
24 - CONSEQUENCE & KID CUDI - BUGGIN OUT 09
25 - TRIBE CALLED QUEST -BUGGIN OUT
26 - DJ MK / CLIPSE FREESTYLE
27 - DR DRE - T I - NAS - TOPLESS
28 - NOTTZ FEAT KARDINAL OFFISHALL & CORY GUNS - CANT HIDE THE TRUTH

This week was a lot, with grime MCs English repping Left Turn (check out the free mixtape!) and Danny D, doing a lot with Alien Music (check his mixtape here) passing thru to touch mic and spit fire, as you would expect from every guest on the show... DJ Penguin and DJ Tubbs ran the decks while I hosted the night's proceedings.
Check the MC session below along with pics as provided by Melvs, and also listen back to the show and peep the tracklisting!

Listen back to the show!

Tracklisting:

N.O.R.E. - Rotate (Ft. Ron Browz, Busta Rhymes)
raekwon feat. maino - realer
Bun B - if it was up to me (featuring junior reid)
ruste juxx - machine gun skunk (feat. jahdan) (prod by masse salazar)
Jadakiss - Hard Times ft. Barrington Levy
Movado feat. Uncle Murda & Wyclef Jean - Informer
Mischief- Version 4 (BankZ Productions)
Lucy Love - Daddy Was A DJ
Jammer Bless beats C Gritz - When We Roll Up
Double S Ft. Voltage, Shimmer - 8 Bar Allstar
sincere (ft. mark henry) - G'd up (prod. by scorcher)
dat dude – scratching (prod by Semothy Jones)
Raekwon - Wu Ooh Feat. Ghostface Killah, Method Man
Bun B - swang on 'em (featuring lupe fiasco)
lil wayne ft jae millz - dick pleaser
pastor troy - I'm fucked up
DMX – Already
head shoulders knees and toes (Theophilus London remix)
Jyager - Frozen In The Night ft. Kashmere and Foreign Beggars
professor green - trunk shit (prod. by 12 milagram)
Twista Ft. Busta Rhymes - Billionaire

Before you watch the new video please read this news story from Hip Hop DX, cracked me up...

With the CNN Channel 10 reunion album coming this spring, N.O.R.E. has been attempting a comeback of sorts. Through his video blogs, he has been taking fans through this journey, even filming himself on a workout plan. But, that comeback has been slightly halted by problems with the law.

This Sunday, N.O.R.E. was arrested after tossing a cup of yellow liquid on a man and punching him in the face at a local Fatburger in South Beach, Florida.

According to the Miami Herald, N.O.R.E. and three other men walked in to the burger restaurant in a loud manner, shortly before N.O.R.E. ripped a decorative flower bouquet out of its place. Then, according to a police report, N.O.R.E. offered an unknown man the cup with yellow liquid in it. The man refused to take it, so Noreaga threw it at him.

''Do you know who I am?'' he allegedly yelled, before striking the man in the face three times.

N.O.R.E. and the three men accompanying him were running out of the restaurant when police arrived on the scene. All were apprehended. According to the report, N.O.R.E. was charged with simple battery and disorderly conduct in a licensed establishment.

Reacting via Twitter, the recently health-conscious rapper has emphasized he was eating veggie burgers, and refuted claims of breaking the flowerpot.

From HipHop DX

CNN ft. Ron Browz and Busta Rhymes - Rotate

This tracks got 'duppied differently'. 2 of the hottest names in the grime scene right now go hard.. Blacks and P Money, and filmed and edited by the man like Smokey Barz of SB.TV. If you're a fan of the P Money, check out his Valentines day massacre podcast with Vectra, just click to download, its straight up hard barring.

Artists featuring on the track:

Tinchy Stryder
Bashy
Sway
Tor
Sincere
Kyla

This one's BIG! Who do you think came nicest? Holla...

Shouts to DJ Semtex on this one. Look out for Newham generals in todays Observer Music Monthly. Their album's gonna be sick, and if the output's as big as the anticipation it's gona be a classic. Download it here now.

Even tho this is in .m4a it works on winamp etc..

This is great, I can't explain why, and on paper it doesn't really work. But when you throw in the liberty of hip hop and the eccentricity of London based music you can see why it has worked. Not to mention the 4 simultaneous versions of the video, which gives it that alternative twist kinda like 'Why Must I Cry' by Rehdogg which is also unconventionally enetertaining and just as eccentric. I also enjoy the fact that it shows just his life, nothing pretentious (especially the rapping). The guy behind this is NSG (Nutyas Surya Gumilang) who moved to Hackney from Jakarta, Indonesia when he was 10 and his album Working Class Superstar is out now.

Make sure you listen to this grime version of Crank dat souljah boy. It's hot enuff to want to listen to another round of learning how to "super man that hoe"

This one was big, and had DJ Penguin on the decks, live once again on the infamous UrbanFMTV.com with Random Mandem (Top Records) in the house as guests and trust, it was A LOT!!!

Check the audio and tracklisting below! (Pics and videos of the MC session coming soon)
Part 1

Part 2 (MC session also)

1 Jammer - Wooo Oiii (ft. Skepta and JME) (prod. By Bless Beats)

2. Tempa T – star 9s

3 Voltage, Skits, Realist, Villain – Try Remix Our Bars

4 The Night I Killed A Nerd – New Reply To Rinse

5 Faith SFX ft. Double S, Maveric & Dot Rotten - Grime Scene Warning

6 Cassidy - 6 minutes ft. Lil Wayne and Fabolous

7 Smitty - Talk Rap Feat. Hunt

8 Lucy Love - Daddy Was a DJ

9 Jammer - track & field (ft badness, chronik rage, slickman, tempa t) (prod. By freek)

10 Killa P - me enemy

11 Jeeday Jawz – Run Up In Da Game (Boom boom Clap Clap) (Prod by Lewi White)

12 Bali ft lil boosie - we all in

13 Jammer – champz and weed ft. Diesel, c.gritz and blacks (produced by silencer)

14 Mischief- Version 4 (BankZ Productions)

15 Direman - Where's My Pen

16 Lil Wayne ft Jae Millz - dick pleaser

17 Royce da 5 9, Phonte and Stat Quo - Homage to Premier (prod. By Fokis)

18 Killa P and skepta - cricket bat (prod by Skepta)

19 Xzibit - get fucked up with me

20 Earatik statik ft Sean price-knock ‘em out

21 Deadly Hunta - Valley of Death

22 Kool G Rap and busta rhymes – og status

23 Jendor – Dope on Road

24 Mischief - Big Bars (BankZ Productions)

25 Germz-Extortion (Prod By Zdot)

Make sure you make it down to this event, here's the details!

Hip Hop is back and so is KUNG FU! Having spent the last few years developing their brand in many area’s of the media KUNG FU return to what they do best. Showcasing the best hip hop talent the British Isles has to offer.

Its been a long time since KUNG FU first launched its showcase event on the rain swept streets of Camden. But this new audio delight manages to encapsulate some of the mood and hunger of that time projecting all twenty nine track slap bang into 2009 and back into the heart of the scene they once dominated.

Selected and pieced together by the dexterous talents of DJ GONE, SIN CITY features KUNG FU faces old and new. Exclusive tracks from POISONOUS POETS, MYSTRO, TB, CHARLIE SLOTH, M9, MILLION DAN, TI2BS, SINCERE, JARGON, RIC BRANSON, MALIK [MD7], TASKFORCE, BIG DEAL, MR DRASTICK, BIG BEN, FAITH SFX, WRETCH 32, TEEF and RAMSON BADBONES make this essential.

Having started DJ’ing in 2002 DJ GONE has since then held down regular spots at all the KUNG FU events including a monthly slot at FABRIC for the last four years, tours up and down the UK and EUROPE plus hosting his own KUNG FU show on the legendary ITCH FM and later PYRO RADIO.

Now he’s bringing KUNG FU back to the people with the SIN CITY compilation and DVD series.

Make sure u cop ur tickets... email blatantlyblunt@gmail.com ASAP! Only a few tickets left!

UrbanFMTV launch party: Urban Affair 27th of febuary
Bar Rock formerly "Bar Monsta"
18 Kentish Town Road, Camden, London NW1 9NX (Opposite Camden TUBE next to sainsburys car park )

MUSIC POLICY GRIME, GARAGE, FUNKY HOUSE, BASSLINE, DUBSTEP

DJs on the night:

Spinny B b2b curls
Midi {Kiss 100}
Elske
Meshak Nasty
score5 b2b smallz b2b Spooky DJ {Slew Dem }
DJ Penguin b2b Tubbs
ks
rema d (artillia )
jawzy (hoodstarz)
Limit {Marvel}
Mad Vybe
Cheeky c b2b nightshade
Henny G b2b 2 dark
Scratcha DVA {rinse fm}

MCs/Hosts:
Sharky P
Hyperactive
Stormin’ (NASTY crew)
MC Raw & Robsta , wolf { hoodstars }
Black The Ripper & Jeeday Jawz
Olos, Murray , Quinzco {Random mandem}
B dodgy , Flirta D {Top Recordings)
dierman
gamer
dot rottern mega 12 (hoodstars)
tempa t
PLUS THERE WILL BE SPECIAL GUESTS make sure u get your tickets ticket only advent

Transport:
Tube: Camden Town/Camden Road (overground)
Buses: 24, 27, 29, 31, 46, 88, 134, 168, 214, 253, 274, C2, N5, N20, N29, N31, N134, N253, N279

Doors: 8pm till 3.30 am

This is an over 20s event: ID required!

Dress code: smart: no hoods, hats or tracksuits

Live PAs & giveaways

VIP tickets: £15 with back stage pass.
normal tickets: £10
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Dress code: smart: no hoods, hats or tracksuits

Live PAs & giveaways

VIP tickets: £15 with back stage pass.
normal tickets: £10
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Normally with comedic hip hop tunes you get a bunch of dudes who can't really rap but can afford to make an average music video and get a semi decent production behind it. This is the case here except they CAN rap (albeit good imitations of big rappers today) and have a good video/beat.

The difference is in this case they've paid $000's to bring T-Pain in who provides his golden touch in the form of a chorus and adlibs to make the audience think he's unaware that this track is parody. In terms of what of I reckon it's a parody of, I reckon Movado's modern classic 'On The Rock' may have had an influence on this track (check the big remixes of that also, from Jay-Z, Chipmunk and others).

Before you say "not another Obama hip hop tune" this ones actually better than ur average.Ever since i heard it when it dropped on inauguration day u can hear the true New York sound to it, provided by Scram Jones, and all 3 of them deliver nicely.. especially Saigon. One to look out for to (finally) blow in 2009?
Download:
Scram Jones ft. Saigon, Rhymefest & Haffa - Yes We Can

For added value check this video.. behind the scenes of the video shoot. Rhymefest makes up for not selling records by goin all 'activist' on the world, and Haffa (as yet unheard of to my ears) breaks down why it was necessary to make this.

Fading grime MC Ribz has been identified on camera "as the man who recently dragged a girl into a subway in NW London where he tried to rape her but was passing cyclist raised the alarm and scared him off. While he escaped on a mountain bike, his victim remembered the distinctive script of the large tattoos on his arms"[source].

'Gully bre'

Ribz, whose real name is Elias Kajue has been described by one of London's free rags, The London Paper as a "violent drug-user who had a string of previous convictions" and say how he "struck as his 23-year-old victim waited for an early morning train at Cricklewood station in north-west London."

Ribz has been jailed indefinitly and will have to serve at least 6 years after being convicted, with the tatoos on his arms being used to identify him.

Ribz was known as one of the featured artists in the anthemic 'Pull Up Dat Forward' and part of former crew Gully Gang who are now de-funct to the members being locked up...