The best thing I heard all year wasn’t even released, in this form. There was an mp3 of Yakuta Riddim but it has 808 claps on it and isn’t nearly as good. This is a rip from Rinse. I love everything about it. I love Novelist going “Are you sick in the face; bang to the jawside. and this one’s like crack cocaine to the nasal, or the airlobe. Hold tight all my Ghanian uncles rocking sandals right now. and it’s real.” I love it.
Novelist : Yakuta Riddim (angel mix)
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Two of my most played songs this year was actually from 2014 :
Lil Reese : So Fast
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and Slug Christ’s “On it”
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which were closely followed by
Capo : Don’t Matter
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and this little treat from Portsmouth, I think they’re from
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Best grime single ended up going to Pres T, mainly for the beat, which sounds like a sample from the Eurythmics.
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Best grime video was easily “Side by Side”. I wish the video hadn’t come out 4 months after the song, but at least they got it done.
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I also wish that had charted.
It was obviously Young Thug’s year. My favourite was “Numbers”
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Listened to lots and lots of that heroin cloud rap stuff, Night Lovell / Xavier Wulf, $uicideBoy$, basically Trillphonk’s youtube (see earlier on in the thread and what sadmanbarty said.)
Special mention goes out to Young Dot/ZVPH XLLXS for the XCXD instrumental what turned into “Garage Skank” I reckon, and I also really like this thing, I especially like that’s it’s pretty much impossible to search for them.
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