Road Rap

[woops]

the humour's totally gone from this music hasn't it, a lot of the grime guys would be up for saying something funny in and amongst

 

[luka]

Yeah that's why it looked so ridiculous particularly in the early days and why it could only have been a product of south London.

 

[luka]

Look at this woops. You can't overstate how terrible this stuff was. The worst of the worst.

 

[catalog]

the humour's totally gone from this music hasn't it, a lot of the grime guys would be up for saying something funny in and amongst

This is basically what I think of when I listen to drill. It's so unrelentingly grim and also so hard to understand lyrically, whereas grime was more accessible and had a little bit of something else to it, some humour.

Im convinced with drill it's also because I've not got the right way of listening yet.

 

[Corpsey]

I think there's humour in it it's just harder to discern cos its delivered in a deadpan way.

Giggs is funnier than most rappers I've heard. In a very deadpan English manner.

 

[Corpsey]

The production is generally quite melancholy, miserable though, I'll say that.

That's not a bad thing necessarily though - look at "The Infamous". Hardly a laugh a minute was it?

 

[catalog]

I think I need to hear in loads of different places, it needs to be background. Out of cars, on buses, in shops. Off kids phones. Thar is something I miss about London n nut I suppose it's gone for the moment anyway

 

[luka]

English rap, as a general rule, is the worst music on gods earth.

 

[Corpsey]

It would be interesting to hear e.g. the teeway song with a grime beat replacing the drill beat.

 

[catalog]

The production is generally quite melancholy, miserable though, I'll say that.

That's not a bad thing necessarily though - look at "The Infamous". Hardly a laugh a minute was it?

ive actually been listening to the infamous quite a lot and it's really good. i mean one key difference between that and drill is that you can understand what he's on about quite well, after a few listens, and it sounds convincing, whereas most drill just doesn't have that.

 

[luka]

What drill have you listened to Catalog?

 

[catalog]

harlem spartans a bit. the odd tune posted on here. i tried to listen to a top 10 or 20 that barty posted a while back but had to give up.

 

[luka]

Take a load of ecstasy get naked and stay up all night listening to it you have to listen to it totally nude or it doesn't make sense

 

[catalog]

well if i find some ecstasy i might do that but it doesn't sound like pill music to me

 

[luka]

I promise it is. I didn't like it really at all till I performed the above experiment

 

[luka]

its got the same inhuman or posthuman aspect as all good drug music

 

[luka]

Plus it sounds satanic

 

[Pandiculate]

That Billy Billions guy talks reckless, has he got any good tunes?

someone done him a highlight reel



I like the singing bits

 

[Corpsey]

"If you lot knew my priors
You'd call me Michael Myers"

 

[Corpsey]

Great to see this music in a different context.