This hit me the first time I heard it and it's still all time to me. I love this one. And I love the volatile beanpole physicality of that other one that's not Russ. Let's call him samurai jack who cares what his name is
dean blunt has been playing with all that 2000's Futurist-Military Rap in a retrospective/future-past way since hype williams, also. his morphing from Art Person to Roadman was mentioned.
my interest in this uk contemporary stuff, probably in the wheelhouse(s) of dissensus more generally, comes from diving deep into his stuff in 2016, where it had just been background, another contender/voice in the first half of the 2010's, personally.
i mean it's right there in the name, yeah?
i was listening to live in rome 2011 for the first time in a long minute last night, and it ends with a loop of the 'JUST BLAZE!' producer tag.
and there's machine gun fire paired with birdsong in this one formless section between proper 'songs'.
this was the artillery, the arsenal of hype williams live show. it really took the lady out of it for that loop to be really loud and stark at the end, though. considering how much downright pretty synth work there was in the overall set.
a lot of the 'road rap' stuff (as opposed to 'uk drill' in what i've put in this playlist is very much dipset, and more generally the shit i was trying to valorise in the 'audible seams' thread -
2000's bombast, flirting with dramatic metal guitar, 'fascist' 'march' orchestral stabs and drum hits.
it was so bizarre trying to get into fisher's old writing how much his circle was unnerved by that production trend as it happened, the military imagery in 2k's rap.
because in retrospect i absolutely see it as playful, even subverting the continued self-seriousness of democratic-republican-miltary political religion/political ritual. dipset is the united nations. and uk rap coming into its own in the early 2010's seems to be very influenced by all that.
Are migos capitalist nihilist chemical coshed vapid consumer hymns glossy extended advertisements or are they blasting through the stargate?
That’s assuming that those things are mutually exclusive.
Sort of. But there tends to be an emphasis on one or the other. It's been that way for twenty years now.
Hopefully Not to get into yet another migos discussion, but I have wondered if dissensus would be receptive to them had they been underground. It’s the fact theyre popular, go in james cirden, etc. Which is the issue rather than something sonic.
I’d say that paradigm’s a relic of the past. A citizen smith-derived paradigm.