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Hiphop started to first get dark to around 1986 with BDP "South Bronx", and rappers like Just Ice. There seemed to be a realness and aggression there that'd been absent before. In retrospect, I wonder if this was the impact of crack echoing through the music world? Childhood is over. This is a...

Just thinking - planning some out later tracks and I feel very lucky to have grown up firstly with this stuff then the emergent rave and house scenes that came together a few years later. Amazing really. Pus all the funk, soul, jazz, that was in the air at that time.

7. Aleem - Confusion Hip hop obviously crossed over with and was played alongside lots of the soul and r&b at the time, and though initially I remembered not liking records with singing on (hey I was 11), I came around eventually. This is one that seems quinessential to that moment, Aleem -...

6. Fat Boys - Stick'em I'm including this because it's a throwback to that moment of totally bizarttitude. These guys, Whodini and Run DMC were the biggest rap stars out. How did a USP of making funny mouth noises and being overweight lead to such success? This is also a shout out to...

Maybe that's my mistaken 13 year old perspective idk. I hope you guys appreciate I'm fucking up cooking dinner for my family by doing this.

I was thinking of something like Veronica by The Bad Boys, which I don't want to include in my top 100 'cos it's not very good, but it's so 12 years old in the way it talks about girls.

No one really talks about DJ Cheese anymore. He was fucking everywhere in 1986, a megastar. The highpoint of UK Fresh, the first huge rap concert in London. I missed out on this somehow, though I did go and see Run DMC this year at Hammersmith Odeon, probably first gig I ever went to. I still...

A few more early electro bits that I love. Most of these were heard in the early days listening to infamous rap nonce Tim Westwood's show, which was on LWR 4-6, aimed at the afterschool set. I don't know if people appreciate now to what degree early rap was kid's music. The big stars were still...

Can't think of another way to do this beyond the chronological, so we'll stick to i until I get bored. It's weird, I'd shown some sympathy towards the Devil's music (heavy metal) at about 10 or so, but never went further than watching it on Saturday morning TV. Luckily rap came along exactly...

Don't let me stop you!

I'm quite a classic Dissensus trajectory in lots of ways. Pubescent rap enthusiast, suburban raver, to Oto Dad. Be interesting to see if I stick to that or deviate.

Only reason I've not started is 'cos I've not thought of a title tbh

Maybe I will. Any particular focus you'd like to see? I could just do US records and call it "Trax Americana: Dan's 100 Neoliberal Classics"

Russia must have similar vids surely? This showed up on my tl this AM:

I thought that they were fucking terrible and this is coming from someone who's probably more inclined to defend Starmer than anyone else here. There was a bit of panicked back and forth "this wasn't approved by higher ups" going on at one point last week. They just seem cheap and crass and if...

I see some, but they're mostly disseminated through Twitter via accounts I trust, and they tend not to put up the horrible stuff. I felt generation gapped by the Telegram bit as I just don't engage with it.

I mean, fucking hell: But each brigade follows its own imperative on social media – to reassure families and friends, to show off new equipment, to raise money, to demonstrate that the enemy is being punished, or, equally, to illustrate dire conditions to the country and the general staff. A...

This is great. Of the Prigozhin videos, I've only seen the one where he's recruiting the prisoners. Very strange. Is it me, or is James Meek really good? I seem to remember him doing some brilliant pieces on housing in the LRB a few years ago.

It is weird. There's always been propaganda but to be able to produce high quality adverts about your future success killing people is profoundly strange.

Ukraine are fantastic at trolling Russia: