Brand new incredibleness from the perma-classy OFWGKTA collective, AKA Oddfuture. This whole joint was produced by Tyler The Creator, rightly described by Steady Bloggin as “The RZA of the clan”, with whom you can read a dope-ass interview over here. Turns out dude likes Neptunes, which explains why this feels like the more coked out moments of The Best Rap LP Of The Milleniums, AKA, Nigga Pleasein places.
ENVY IS IN THE BUILDING! That means we get her choice of tunes, and INTENSE FREESTYLE AWESOME on the Lady Gaga Riddim, and the Let Smell Yo Dick riddim! AMAZOR!
1. Brake Lights feat. Busta Rhymes
2. Trading Places feat. Snoop Dogg
3. Cold Blood feat. Busta Rhymes & Dre
4. M.I.A. (3 Heats: LeBron James, Chris Bosh & D. Wade)
5. Stop feat. Rick Ross
6. Street Riders feat. Akon & Nas
7. HaHaHaHaHa
8. Pushin’ It feat. T.I. & Robin Thicke
9. That’s The Way The Game Goes feat. Shawty Lo
10. Ecstasy
11. Phantom Of The Opera
12. Do It B.I.G. feat. Yung Joc
13. You Are The Blood
14. Get’em feat. Waka Flocka Flame
15. Cherry Koolaid
16. Heels & Dresses (X.O. feat. T.Y Dolla Sign)
17. Blackout
18. Stadium Music
19. Hustlin’ (Champion’s Anthem)
2 years ago today Marvin The Martian relased his debut LP, Devil In The Distance. Actually, he was called “Marvin” for the relase, as Universal were behind it, and you know how they get down. Anyway. It was a brilliant album, a magnificent piece of work and a Goliath achievement, that was sadly undersold by its owners to the tune of 7 million copies. Eediots! The good news is, team Marvin have decided that today, Devil In The Distance Day, 2010, they are gonna give the thing away, because they are “very proud of it and want you to hear it.”
I haven’t given too much of a fuck about anything “underground” since, like, Kid 606 and Cex and Lex records and flippin’ Anticon and Rammellzee and shit (same time as Nigga Please was blowing up my speakers). So that this stuff has gotten me mad excited, well, that’s something, brothers and sisters. That is something. Do your life a favour and cop this ish pronto. I’m rocking it back to back with Teflon Don. It’s like 2001 all over again. Only this time we got BROADBAND, fool.
Oh, and when you visit the source, tell ‘em I said hi.
Here’s a message from the Makers:
FUCKING FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Tyler Creator/ Domo Genesis/ Mike G/ Hodgy Beats/ Earl Sweatshirt/ Left Brain/ Jasper And Fucking Taco!!!! We Just Want To thank Everyone Who Fucks With Us. We Just Some Young Niggas Doing What We Love, Fuck The Public, Making The Music We Want. This Mixtape Is Us Going over Our Favorite Beats From Other Popular Acts, Such As Gucci Mane, The Liars And Like, R.Kelly. Please Enjoy The Grimy Music, And The Porn Virus This Shit Comes With. Click The FUCKING TITLE TO DOWNLOAD IT. WE FIXED IT. Faggots.
Whoooop! Stranger Day! You know that guy! He was on thatBottle Rocket joint with me, and that that Air France remix of a remix Joey did. Speaking of which, there is JOEY2TITS PRODUCTION ON THIS BIZZATCH! Can you spot it?
The long and short is thus: Last night Wiley sacked his manager over Twitter then proceeded to upload 11 zip folders of music to the internets, including the album he was about to release via Universal, The Elusive.
Oh, and he’s quit Boy Better Know.
Listen to Dubya explaining the whole shebang on 1Extra earlier.
And now! Download those zip files! Props to the fine folks at Grime Forum who’re archiving it all.
We’re gonna kick off with Nah Nah Nah. This shit is a classic already. I knew it was gonna be a classic the second I laid a drum break on top of that Serge Gansbourg sample at 06:08 am, June 23rd, just over an hour into the twenty four hour recording process of the mixtape. A few hours later Mary Turner and Chilly Gonzalaes walked into the studio and confirmed it.
I only just realised this is the first song me and Chilly have recorded together. We’ve performed together on stage – first time was at the Eden Project in 2002, where one of my buddies tagged Pulp’s tour bus, igniting a short-lived Beef between the Sheffield indie stars and the Canadian supervillain, and the second was at The ICA in 2009, when I joined dude to do my verse from the Working Together remix – but never before on a record, in the same room.
Chilly Gonzales and the then Adam "Akira" Alphabet, 2002.
The song came together at awesome speed. We did the hook in about half an hour, including a vanguard of fine harmonies from Mary, and Gonzo aced his verse on the second take, before racing off to catch the Eurostar to Paris. Then at around 10pm my old school chum Ginge and The Mighty Jeres came round and added the guitars and sax. I mixed it at 4am, by which point I had gone a little mad, and deaf. But it sounded like a classic.
