Flabz – Sold Soul
New one we just dropped for Flabz. ‘Sold Soul’ produced by Under The Bed Productions Taken from The Undisputed Underdog album, released on 27/10/23. Available on all digital platforms.
New one we just dropped for Flabz. ‘Sold Soul’ produced by Under The Bed Productions Taken from The Undisputed Underdog album, released on 27/10/23. Available on all digital platforms.
Stig of the Dump – Merry Dissmas
This one is too good. Stig absolutely smashed it for the crown of seasonal joker here. The guy must have had a lot of time on his hands in the winter of 2012. As if writing a Christmas diss rap and putting together a suitably funny video for it wasn’t enough effort, man like Stig went fully interactive with it. Resulting in something kind of like an R rated video version of one of those choose your own adventure kids books, the dump dwelling lyricist made a purpose-built website that allowed users to choose from multiple lists of characteristics that then spat out personalised Christmas disses to send to one’s friends/enemies. Tech. If this has never been a part of your festive greetings, then you’re doing Christmas wrong.
Make your own here:
Flabz and Firts – Anti Christmas Song
The awards for biggest grinches go to Flabz and Firts. They really hate Christmas. Don’t buy them a present.
Hozay – Bad Santa
Hozay provides his antidote to the midnight massy, Brussel sproutsy, family photoey, side of Christmas with ‘Bad Santa’. Utilising an instrumental flip (produced by Hozay himself) of Frank Sinatra’s Jingle Bells that would have the crooner rotating in his grave, the South West spitter diverts Christmas into an entirely messy affair. Rocking a sack full of drugs, poker chips, booze and a sawn off shotgun with an entourage of strippers and alcoholic reindeer, Hozay’s Santa is not a guy you want climbing down your chimney while your kids are asleep.
E&Daniels is an 18 man UK Hip Hop Collective which features: Mr 13, DJ Bones, Tony D, Locksmyth, J.Matrix, Theme, Mystro, Wordplay, Gizmo, Ceezlin, Jae Moe, Theo, Flabz, Dr Psycho, Body Bagnall, RawWz, Micall Parknsun, & Shane (AMS). Due for release on Friday 13th of December; the début record Bar Crawl showcases the abilities of the 18 predominantly southern UK artists over an 8 track EP, featuring songs that provide thought-provoking sentiments alongside all out lyrical slaughters.
A sentimental piano accompanies the introductory track Ain’t This Something. E&Daniels and Poison Inc member Josiah Matrix reminiscently spits his deeply thought verses with a purposeful morality, going in solo for just over three minutes before Same Old Same. The beat takes a more optimistic turn but doesn’t hinder Josiah’s intelligent bars before Flabz, Mr 13 and Ceezlin feature to assertively spit lyrics. In this particularly catchy number the artists essentially boast their alpha-male persona’s with equally fine flows.
These guys know how to spit bars / They know how to drink juice / And more importantly / They know how to bun a good zoot
The funky What You Drinking track brings an inappropriately joyous atmosphere to the EP, for artists Tony D, Locksmyth, Mr 13, Ceezlin, Flabz, Jae Moe, Micall Parknsun, RawWz, Mystro, Gemini and Dr Psycho to slur self-satisfied references to alcohol. The 3 main connotations to take from the heavily collaborated showcase is that the E&Daniels family are hedonistic, lyrically versatile and to be avoided down dark alleyways. Gi3MO following his recent Gary Guttersnypes release features with fire in (track 4) Main Event. His trademark flow of immodesty goes in brilliantly to the beat. Contrastingly, Josiah Matrix kicks more metaphorical wordplay with realism to his rhymes before DJ Cosmo cuts out the track superbly to finish. Things take a twisted turn however in the hauntingly dark tune Halloween. After listening to a creepily discordant piano trickle over maniacal laughter, the crew dressed looking like Pennywise The Clown’s worst nightmare (see video) go in with ardently grim verses. Flabz begins with undoubtedly unnerving bars before Dr Psycho spits a scarring chorus. Josiah Matrix returns with a digression for the opposition before the famously dynamic Don’t Flop star Mr 13 spits a groaning, chilling rendition of words to finish the horror show.
Only Gi3MO can truly counter the prior track and in Slaughter he combats with furious lyricism before Theme kicks in with a vividly disturbing verse of his own. Josiah Matrix joins with his ever sardonic persona with deep bars before Flabz spits an all out syllable slaughter with psychopathic wordplay to finish. Despite the initial lullaby production in the following song I Can’t Keep, I assure that this is not a track to sleep on. Money Mitch touches hard with meaningful bars, speaking of a necessity to progress from “cooking wrong so I could eat right“. Josiah Matrix denounces the unpublicised social problems surrounding him before Locksmyth spits cynically sceptical lyrics with a depressively raw flow. The album finishes on a cleverly thought-provocative note, with RawWz spitting solo in an emotional stand-off denouncing mainly the corruptive authorities, the vastly divided social gap within society and a vigorous resentment for racism in Stereotype, over a tenderly affectionate instrumental produced by Last Resort.
Money money money makes the world turn round / It won’t be long ’til that money makes the world burn down
Review by Ethan Everton
Bar Crawl is out today 13/12/13 and available on Itunes
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