Bigger Than Barry Beach Party 08

OH.MY.DAYS.



For those of you that know, Bigger Than Barry is a club night originating in Birmingham. These guys hold some of the best nights in the country & constantly book the hottest DJs & usually have venues rammed. Last year, they booked the crew as well as my homegirl Goldielocks. I got to Birmingham, was violently ill, fell asleep at a bus stop & paid for a train home (despite the fact I already had a return ticket) in a dizzy haze. I missed the event & ended up spending more money than I would have been paid. Not a good look.

Well, this year they did it all again. And I was damned if I was gonna miss out this time.

When we got there, the place was rammed. & I mean rammeeeed. You could not move. The line-up? Shower:

Oneman, L-Vis, Tayo, Mumdance, Vinyl Is...need I go on?



Oneman did his thing with one the best sets I've ever seen. I swear, that man is next level with his deck skills.



We followed & MY WORD. I was not ready.


I was on a chair & after we dropped "I Spy" (& spun it back 3 times!), that was it. The crowd went mental. I was standing on a chair so I could be seen & I got pushed off it because the crowd was skanking so hard! So, what to do? Only one thing I could do:


I climbed on top of the beach hut & did the rest of the set there (big up Sugarbear on that one).


Big up the Notts crew for traveling all that way to skank out!


Big up Charlie Victor & Natalie Esq.


...Now I never saw this happen, but I think it should become a fixture of all Tomb Crew gigs.

Shout outs to:
James Cresser, Skanky, Josh & crew, Laura McBeth, Mr Clip, The BNTL Crew & all the people who turned up & made it such an amazing night.

BIGGEST of thank yous to the Barry Crew for having us.

Photos courtesy of the good folks at:
Better Never Than Late

These Albums Will Change Your Life

Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III
OK, so I still hate Lil Wayne as a person, but that's besides the point. This is fire. There are actually no tracks of any substance or any semblance of structure on this LP. However, there is incredible wordplay, daft one liners ("I be wildin' like Capital One/What is in your wallet?!") & confusing similes ("if I don't know the answer, it's probably on the web like I'm a damn Tarantula"). The production is top notch (two Kanye West beats, tracks by The Alchemist, Swizz Beats & more), the guests outstanding (career defining verses from Fabolous & Juelz Santana) & it's all brilliant fun. Pick up asap, my friend.


N*E*R*D-Seeing Sounds
Concept albums rarely ever deliver nowadays (American Gangster wasn't really a concept album & A Grand Don't Come For Free wasn't that strong), so my expectations of this (an album about Pharell's real life struggle with Synthanesia)weren't that high. Add to that, N*E*R*D's last album was the rather underwhelming Fly Or Die & this wasn't looking like album of the year. But boy, did they prove me wrong.
Seeing Sounds blends all the best elements of traditional Neptunes with drum n bass, classic rap & much more. Both Pharrell & Shae have stepped up the bars & the album is incredibly cohesive. There are a few stinkers, but the bangers more than make up for it. Star Trak is most definitely back.

Hancokery

Yearrssss ago on my Myspace blog, I said that someone should make a movie of the DC comic book "Black Superman". Now, at least three years after that post, they are finally releasing a movie based on the Black Superman story "Tonight, He Comes" (to be fair, this film has been in development for 10 years).

Hancock sees Will Smith in the title role of a drunken, arrogant "super-hero". Not as dark as the comic, but still looks brill. Bring on the summer.

Youheardthatnew?

I hate doing blogs about what I've been doing, because if certain things don't pan out, people are like "But I swear you said you were doing this..blah blah". But, if I don't, other people ask me what I've been up to.

So here are things I plan to do:
Hit the studio with Mowgli & Goldielocks for new tracks.

Hit the studio for some new photos

Relaunch the Myspace & launch my official site.

If it happens, it happens. Could really care less about music right now.

Alright, I admit it...

This is f*ckin awesome.

OH.MY.DAYS.

He actually did it. Nasir realized if Def Jam wouldn't let him release a legit album called N*gger, he would just release a mixtape! And boy, does he go in.


Nas & DJ Green Lantern Present: The Nigger Tape

"That N*gger's Crazy!"

Nas continues to garner attention & controversy (because we keep paying attention!) with the launch of his currently untitled album. He recently screened the video for launch single "Be A N*gger Too". Apparently, it's amazing. I'll reserve judgement til it leaks.


when trying to explain what Nas had name his new album, I didn't want to actually say it to my mate Dave,so I said "the N word". Dave mistook me & thought that I meant the album was literally called The N Word & said how clever it was. When I corrected him, we both laughed & I realized he was right. Calling the album The N Word would get Nas a lot less hassle. Whilst it may not be the exact same title, the rumour mil is suggesting Nas is going to title the album N. We'll see what happens...

Sucks to be Lil Wayne..

Just when it seemed this arragont, self obsessed substance abuse addict could do no wrong, he went & pulled a baddd move. In a recent interview with Foundation (a mixtape magaazine), Lil Wayne said (basically) "f**ck mixtape DJs".

After a HUGE bkaclash this week (including several diss videos & a moutain of leaks released with the intent to hurt his sales), Wayne spoke up & said he was only going at The Empire, a mixtape DJ made famous due to his countless mixtapes of leaked Wayne material. So far,no-one's buying it.


Told y'all,huh?