Schedule: Last Week’s Freshest Mixtapes, This Week’s Freshest Albums, 14 May 2012
I’m not saying El-P isn’t a nice guy, Mike just comes over a whole lot more friendly. Where El-P plays a sociopath Mike’s a man of the people. I know which one I’d rather spend forty-five minutes with. A rare case of me actually regretting not having money for a vinyl copy.
Schedule: Last Week’s Freshest Mixtapes, This Week’s Freshest Albums, 7 May 2012
Apparently H.E.R.O. stands for ‘Helping Everyone Realise Opportunity’ which sounds to me like a slogan for some hideous ‘job creation’ company that runs schemes where unemployed people are lectured about how it’s their fault they don’t have the entrepreneurial skills to shit all over the competition and thrive in this capitalist utopia. Maybe 9 Milli Major got sent on one of those courses a while back.
Ringometrics 23 (Bothered: Chief Keef. Not Bothered: Azealia Banks, Black Hippy, Nicki Minaj.)
I’m too English to ‘not like’ things, so instead in tribute to Chief Keef this column will be a list of things I can’t be bothered with. For example: Nicki Minaj has finally made a video for ‘Starships‘. Fifteen blogs thought that worthy of note. I don’t. Furthermore, I can’t be bothered to count how many blogs featured Wiz Khalifa’s video to ‘Work Hard Play Hard‘. I can’t be bothered to write about it either, but that goes without saying.
Schedule: Last Week’s Freshest Mixtapes, This Week’s Freshest Albums, 30 April 2012
His career is like he was idolising Andre from Outkast, trying to emulate his arc, but somehow skipped from Southernplayalistic… straight to Class Of 3000. Except he’s the Disney version. I may end up listening to that B.o. B. album, finally, next time I’ve got a sweet tooth. Maybe in a few months time.
Ringometrics 22 (Danny Brown, ‘Blueberry’)
One-hundred-and-sixty-eight Danny Brown tracks. I haven’t had the time to search for hidden depths, I’m not saying it’s all of the same rarefied quality, not every track has a brilliant concept, over that kind of breadth there’s gonna be some repetition. But I’ve yet to find a single track that could be considered wack.
Ringometrics 21 (Wittering Vs Twittering)
Tweeting Ringometrics was simply a way speeding up the sift through twelve hundred unread headlines that popped up in my feed reader when I fired it up on Monday morning. It didn’t quite work out that way, though. I’d imagined for a second the writing is what took all the time. Bloody fool! This drivel? Well…actually it does take up a bit of time. More than I’d care to admit.
Schedule: Last Week’s Freshest Mixtapes, This Week’s Freshest Albums, 23 April 2012
Great week. In fact, it’d be a great week if the only thing released were Gangrene’s ‘Odditorium’, and they were asking you to pay for it. That it’s free and only the main course in this weeks menu of sound pushes this week on to the next stage beyond great.
Ringometrics 20 (One Other Thing Juicy J Can’t Do)
Struggling to understand what’s going on here. Obviously as a mere pleb the intricacies of music biz contracts are way over my head so I’m sure there’s something subtle I’m missing. BUT. The basic situation seems extremely fucked up.
Schedule: Last Week’s Freshest Mixtapes, This Week’s Freshest Albums, 16 April 2012
No massive standouts this week, but lots of cool bits and pieces and, to be totally honest, a bunch of stuff from obscure but interesting looking British emcees I’d never heard of before that I didn’t really have time to check out so didn’t include here. You want comprehensive? Get thee to a mental asylum before I die laughing.
Ringometrics 19 (All Gravy: 2 Chainz, Million Dan, Project Mayhem)
I’m not saying I doubt him…exactly…but I’m not sure he’s being entirely serious here. There’s one point when he’s shown talking into a corded phone that isn’t even plugged in. He’s outside! They’re nowhere near a phone socket! If we can’t trust him on such trivia, how seriously should we take his threats of inciting a riot?