Best rapper in the UK at the moment?

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

So many people who didn't do nothing but who cares

Yep absolute masterpiece this one.

I think he only had one or two tunes didn't he. That "it's not my baby" one?

The great lost genius of uk music

 

[woops]

@EskimoKush says wiley, otherwise UK is pointless.

 

[luka]

@EskimoKush says wiley, otherwise UK is pointless.

You should tell him to study this thread for the next fortnight. Learn all the lyrics and dance moves etc

 

[woops]

I'm obsessed with this

dunno why as there is not one original lyric in the whole lot? also, the Groupe des Recherches Musicales has really gone downhill

 

[luka]

Cos it's the best tune ever made so exciting and fun

 

[DannyL]

If you want to access the national market you have to embarrass yourself.

They did a bit on Masterchef just now where the Jamaican guy rapped, It was excruciating. Greg and Monica were waving their hands in the air. I felt nauseous and fearful, and turned away.

 

[DannyL]

This guy has failed to get through the first round. Good. Bastard.

 

[woops]

anyone else getting spammed to fuck on face book with loki the scottish rapper? or is the idea that i might be into him a spectacular denial of the algorithm?

 

[luka]

It's going to be the greatest triumph of the algorithm once you end up loving them

 

[shiels]

dunno why as there is not one original lyric in the whole lot? also, the Groupe des Recherches Musicales has really gone downhill

what about the beat?

 

[woops]

i was listening in the context of best rapper in the uk, but you're right the 808 sounds good

 

[shiels]

808 kicks typically signify depth, weight, menace etc but here he takes all that then maximises agility, playfulness, melody

 

[shiels]

which is drills main innovation yes but this is one of the best examples ive heard

 

[luka]

Yeah it's the same but totally different. It's one of those tunes which is a genre all by itself. A direction which could have been taken but wasn't

 

[shiels]

the glide warps time and space. because of the expectation of downward pitch the glide gives a sense of reversal and a 3d enveloping anti gravity physicality. in the way that trap focused on stuttering time dividing hats and jungle tmestretch doing the same

 

[shiels]

tell us about the glide luke. barty will no doubt have a full chapter in his book about it

 

[luka]

Well I have to admit actually I don't know what that word means exactly can you explain it please?

 

[shiels]

when the kick boom glides up and down to make a melody. Pitch bends. Switching from one note played alongside next with legato so you get a nice gliding curve

 

[luka]

Yeah it's amazing that when did it start?

 

[shiels]

In trap I think. Corpsey and barty will know. You could obviously trace pitching 808s all through hip hop and electro but it got much more cartoon bendy baroque in the last few years