Poems over tunes

[shakahislop]

this one as well. that is a really offputting thumbnail. at first i was a bit suspicious because it sounded a bit like morgan freeman-core but i don't think it's that

 

[shakahislop]

and this one. maybe i put it on here before. i saw matana three of the four nights she did at the stone recently. she's one of those artists who seems totally serious and uncompromising, every now and then puts out something killer like this, where the vision comes together and becomes something comprehensible to me. but you have to get through so much that doesn't work to find that. she def does the performance poetry delivery thing but pulls it off i reckon

 

[shakahislop]

richie culver is probably the best of the people doing all of this i reckon. quite hit and miss which seems to be the nature of this kind of thing but the hits do hit. it is weird though, they just need to put a foot wrong with the vocal inflection or the words and it's instantly a bit shameful, he's always just on the edge of doing something that makes you cringe

 

[Murphy]

reign in the mania, Alan

 

[shakahislop]

t shirt weather in the manor i think this more or less fits into this category. shares a lot of similarities at least. the vocals are mixed way high and it's all about the words. arguably imagine off the second dizzee album fits as well.

both of those remind me so much of GCSE english classes. there's probably not much to say about grime on dissensus that hasn't been said before but nonetheless: i don't think it's irrelevant that it came during new labour.

 

[shakahislop]

josh idehan has been doing this kind of thing for a while. i remember him from back in the day, i think blackdown or someone was bigging him up. he has quite an unperformative delivery which i think is generally the right way to go. i think this would be fertile ground if you could someone stop all the world's young poets from ever getting involved with slam poetry, so much of it has that taint. or even if you could get them in front of mics a long time before they ever set foot on a stage. i was talking to a serious slam poet the other day and not that i've ever seen much of it i got the impression that it must push you in the wrong direction if you're consciously or unconsciously courting the kind of audience who turns up to that kind of thing.

 

[shakahislop]

this one is good coz it's from the heart. you never hear people who have this accent on tunes

 

[shakahislop]

this is pretty good on first listen. it's weird with this kind of thing how earnest and introspective people feel they need to be. mad how so much of it goes in that serious direction. it really reminds me of a teenage diary sensibility

 

[shakahislop]

pretty good

 

[shakahislop]

this one is killer

 

[shakahislop]

 

[shakahislop]

 

[shakahislop]

kind of ok. some good moments. i don't know why even for something like this they speak so unnaturally

 

[shakahislop]

this has a more than a tinge of the midwest about it in every sense. this gets closer to the right way of speaking. storytelling works better for this kind of thing than anything abstract. musically it's too cheesy. but it's closer to what i'm looking for. there's a couple of bits where he over-emotes. it's such a fine line with this kind of thing between it being good and being cringe

 

[shakahislop]

slam poetry put to music. half the stuff i find sounds like this and it's not what i'm after

 

[shakahislop]

rip spaceape. this one i've been listening to for years, it's great. still feels a bit too poemy

 

[william_kent]

sometimes I surprise myself

because

it seems I never posted this obvious Rasta "reasoning"



Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - Poem

edit: sort of cheating because the music stops when the doggerel starts

 

[shakahislop]

big fan of this one. the mumbling delivery and the mundanity. never heard another tune like it. first heard it on a bus from phoenix to appropriately los angeles

 

[shakahislop]

the closer they get to prose than poetry, the better they are

 

[william_kent]

I'm not risking 25 euros but there is exactly one tune on Discogs credited "text by Prynne" on this album

maybe we, as a community, need to make Jezza P the Burroughs of the 21st century!