Beautiful Mind...

Is an appropriate name for the new EP from UK House DJ and Producer Smoove Kriminal

As I found it utterly beautiful and very well constructed.

Here's a little snippet...

The man is clearly 'about it', the tracks are thoroughly well put together and the whole EP has an ethereal and soulful feel about it which left me nice and relaxed ^_^

The 5 tracks on the EP are :

1. Crystal Water

2. Night Breeze

3. Elevated Levels

4. In Between

5. Soul Deep

and each one is definitely worth a £1 (at the very least)

The Beautiful Mind EP is available from www.smoovekriminal.com 

and you can catch the man himself playing UK House and Funky House from 6pm-8pm on DejaVu

Akala...

Is a speaker - nuff said.

If that intelligent stuff is for you.

Personally, I think few do it better - enjoy!

This is grime...

Rocks - War Ting (Instrumental) by Threefold_Media

its not necessary for me to say more than that

This brother...

Is making a lot of sense...

He's definitely a speaker after my own heart and overall he has a strong point "build it and they shall come".

So this is out to all my real movers and shakers, 'bun an imageting' and don't even think about the money as an endpoint, payment is a byproduct of business it's not as important as what service you're providing so don't think about cash as much as you think about adaptability initiative and confidence.

Eitherway, this life is for the schemers...

Like the first day of school...

I recently got a writing position with Sound Freakz, a e-magazine/blog that's hitting the web this Spring.

Today' is the first full team meeting and to tell the truth I'm nervous!

It's like the 1st day of school!

Having said that, I've never been one of them short trousers youts so it's not anxiety I'm feeling, this nervous energy is more excitement than anything else.

I can't wait to see who I'm working with, being in a roomfull of developing ideas is a lot for me!

Anyways will put a little update about the meeting up afterwards, for now...

Instrumental (Prod. By Herda Vim?) by Herda Vim?

A lil bit of Herda Vim for you to Vibes to!

The only way is Essex...

I spent a lot of last weekend in Southend because my long time friend Steve now lives there and found MC's.
I recorded 2 tracks with dudes I met up there and was generally impressed with their love for grime, I think it's really poignant how hard people will work when they aren't fortunate enough to be from the place 'where it's all happening'.

They haven't necessarily got the same sound (which makes sense) but they've definitely got their own sound and dudes are undeniably thorough.

It wouldn't be bizzyness as usual if I wasn't about expansion, so I'm gonna make the journey at least once a week to lay tracks with them man and maybe touch radio etc

Anyways this is one of the artists I did a tune with...

Friends, Roadmans, Countrymen - Heavy Duty is the mans name!!

Watch this space!
As soon as I get the track I did back from studio I'll put it up on either Youtube or Soundcloud!

Trim Vs Everyone and Anyone

There are some people that you just shouldn't enter into conflict with. Trim is that guy.

Probably the most prolific of all 'problems' in the scene, Trim is the last guy any MC should start trouble with.

Several more than adequate war dubs (and no response) later, it really seems as if a large amount of Bloodlines credibility has been tarnished.

 

I assume you'll hear a mumble or two here and there, but nobody other than 'Wiley The Undeadable' is flinging proper bars at Trim these days, and only Redrum has ever murked him on beat.

Verdict: Are you choopid!?! what did you think was gonna happen??? 
Trimbo Slice - 1st round KO

Blue Vs Blue

Ok this one is another dispute playing out internally if you will, 

in the same borough, namely 'Blue Borough'. 

I must state from early that I have my own bias in this particular feud and I don't plan on annexing it from this post. I don't think Strapzy is real and to tell the truth the sound of him pisses me off, I really hate grease MC's that neither feel truthful or show outstanding lyrical content. 

The likes of Krept and Konan (please don't send for eachother) can spit gunbars all day if I'm listening

- them bruddahs sound Tarrantino, but I've always thought Strapzy was a bit 'light Blue'. 

He has so many firearms and football related wordplay my impression is always

"SHALLAP!!! you don't own a gun fam, you own a copy of championship manager!"

So I was delighted to see that

A) this dude Status had moved in to try 'run expose' and B) my fave cameraman Jimmy Chiba snapped it.

 

as I don't wanna overdo the video embedding thing I will only put up this one, 

Strapzy's indirect response and the reply to that are both currently on the frontpage of www.spifftv.com.

Fact is, I may be moved by some of the obvious bias that I have shown, but it does seem like Strapzy is failing to fully acknowledge someone who seems to be posing quite the threat to his current status.

Verdict: Oi Strapzy bruv, you wanna do something before this is declared a TKO

Mario Vs Luigi... neh, Ant Vs Dec... neh, Marger Vs Rival...

Yes actually. 

Apparently that is what's going on at the moment...

and frankly it's the least I've been impressed by out of all the recent beefs.

I mean as far as I know this is some 'family beef' and it really feels like it don't belong in the public domain likes this.

A lot of people have speculated that it seems fake and for an artist like Marger I personally think it's not a good look, whatever happened to just going in the front or the back and 'swinging it out' or suttin.

Anyways, Rival has been running through the analogies on twitter and he's not wrong - you don't see Oxide sending for Neutrino, or Milli tryna spin Vanilli, you ain't hearing that Onion was tryna throw Cheese out of the crisp packet and you don't hear Kano's cousin chatting sh*t about him on grimeforum.com.

Even though I think Margers war dub might be the best one I'm gonna talk about (in terms of fire anyway, Trim lyrically betters him) it's also the most ill-advised, stupid even.

Verdict: Nobody wins, 

might as well have just went on Jeremy Kyle.

Today, I am a War Correspondant...

of sorts anyway. I mean real war is Ordinary People Vs Neo-imperialism, it's the oppression visited on the people of places such as Sudan and Palestine, it's bloodshed.

The kinda conflict i'm talking about is Grime beef,
something that we are never really short of in quantity but often lack in terms of quality.

The situation at present is quite different...
It's all kicking off! Certain man are actively attempting to finish careers, there are a few 'big faces' currently trading war dubs and I must say it's looking peak for certain man!!


Anyways, what I will do is say a little bit about the feuds going on at the moment, then individually say a bit about each of them and upload the evidence.

Undercard

Marger Vs Rival

Status Vs Strapzy

Main Event

Trim Vs Bloodline

Are you...

on cheap drugs!?!?!

is a question I often find myself asking the world.

Today I feel like that qusetion must be asked of the writing team for Eastenders...

Like honestly, who comes up with these storylines???

It's a given that we want to be entertained and enthralled, that every cliffhanger should be meaningful, ideally the nation should hold there breath every time the 'Duff-Duff' theme at the end plays - leaving us ready to collectively exhale upon the start of the following episode.

I think we easily forgive the fact that it's an absolute 'stereotype orgy',
a place where the most permissable Black characters are not to be seen without a rum in their right hand,

a place where the muslim family is so 'haraam' that their residence might as well be made of Bacon

 and a representation of youth that not even spifftv.com could match for 'scumminess',

   I mean the last time I saw a group of teenagers or young men in the show they looked like they'd ordered their bandanas (in bulk) online.

But even by Eastenders' standard the most recent storyline is a little bit tongue through cheek...

I mean...
Dead baby swap yeah?!?! Whose bright idea was that? 

Who exactly was it that thought - 'this is what they have all been waiting for'??

A cot death storyline is enough, superimposing a baby theft or swap storyline involing probably the most loved couple currently in the show is overkill, that's not even a matter of opinion - it's a fact.

Mercifully the storyline has been visibly cut short.

I dunno what the next development is going to be but it's quite telling that the resolution was so abrupt, personally I can't remember another time when I've actually seen a show get so many people up in arms, and although I can't remember another storyline which had roadguys trying to reason with my television like

"Arrgh just llow it maan, give the girl her baby back, whats wrong with you lot???"...

That's not a good thing

Fact is we all like a good cliffhanger...
but not necessarily when there's also a dead baby dangling - so not cool!