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Ciecmate and Brad Strut - “I Need Change”

Newsense knows how to run a record label. He puts out slick media kits, calls out slack media outlets (even mouths off at them when necessary) and probably shakes down retailers who don’t pay their invoices on-time. He’s basically the Australian Suge Knight, only with more manners and less jail time.

Well Mr Sense shook us out of our self-imposed hip hop exile this week to let us know that Ciecmate is about to drop a production LP entitled ‘Chess Sounds’. Everybody’s favourite social-media Luddite has obviously pitched a fucking tent in his new studio considering this is his second full length drop this year.

I want to say that the MC’s look like a ‘Dream Team’, but that inevitably poses the question ‘Well, which one is Christian Laettner?’ and more importantly sounds really gay. And since I aint heard the whole thing yet, it is probably best just to leave the basketball metaphors on the bench.

What we do have here is the track “I Need Change” with the always on point Brad Strut ripping his patented lyrical jabs straight at your dome. Ciecmate comes correct with some booming drums that Buckwild would be pissed he never found and some frantic quitar riff that makes me think that Macgyver only has 10 seconds to diffuse a bomb with a stapler and chewing gum. It’s tight shit. Can’t say I’m completely sold on that chorus though… I reckon Ciecmate should have got Briggs to warble it.

Click the cover and tell us what you think.

Source: brokentoothentertainment.bigcartel.com

14 October

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This is why we need more bars from Brad Strut and for Doc Felix to fucking drop this LP he has been working for the love of Zeus! These 2 Melbourne stalwarts take it back to basics with this preview of the track “Enough of Me?”. Pass me a longneck cunt!

Why are all you traditionalist so against OFWGKTA? Tyler the Creator is basically just Bushwick Bill and Kool Keith in the one person who likes to skate and dress like he just came from Seaworld with him mummy.

2 May

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RAPPER TAG REPORT CARD - NUMBER 1

Australian rappers have kicked off this virtual youtube cipher thing called Rapper Tag. I am diggin it so far (although I still think it should be called Web Slang Clan) and thought we should be droppin a report card to keep MC’s on they toes.

360

STILL LIVING AT MA DUKES CRIB AWARD

Now we aren’t knowledgable about architecture and/or plumbing here at Peak Street, but if 360 isn’t serving a 3 year stint in Barwon Prison for giving Keynote continual Ike Turner style beatdowns then those cinderblock walls and overhead dunny pipe tell me he is sleeping in the converted garage of his parents house. Dang why didn’t I freeload longer?

BEST LINE

“Yo I woke up this morning like I’m Robocop / Stormed outside to go and make my Coco Pops / Yeah, chocolate cereal, gangsta shit / Mum poured me the milk I said ‘thank you bitch’.”

This not only confirms the validity of above award, but the idea of Robocop eating a bowl of chocolate milkshake only crunchy with his oversized cyborg feet up on the breakfast table and mouthin off at sixty’s mum in that terrible digital cadence of his amuses the shit out of us. Dead or alive the cereal is coming with me!

URTHBOY

THE AWKWARD PAUSE AT THE END AWARD

You know when you try to get work colleagues to lighten up at the bar after work on a Friday with a few jokes and you say, ‘What do you say to a girl with no arms and no legs? - Nice tits!’ and then Brenda from Finance makes a sad face and remarks, ‘My mother is an amputee’, and this all encompassing uncomfortable silence engulfs the room? It is sort of the same feeling you get when a rapper takes a few seconds too long to turn the webcam off.

BEST LINE

“Hey, thanks for the tag six / And thanks to the neighbours for the bandwidth”

According to the Australian Institute of Criminology,unauthorised access to an unsecure wireless network is the most common cyber crime in the country. My gut instinct is that Elefant Traks is purely a front for some sort of hacking organised crime syndicate and that right now Urthboy is buying a gold plated pimp cane (to replace his ghetto crutches in the background) with the credit card details he just jacked from you.

BRAD STRUT

BEST HAND GESTURES AWARD

Did you know that legally, you aren’t allowed to rap with your hands by your side unless you are Jigga? True story. And Strutter cold killed em dead with the hand gestures on this one, making every other Rapper Tagger look as stiff 50’s acting. If LC don’t drop another LP there is always a career as an orchestra conductor Braddles.

BEST LINE

“I’m about to be homebound / And just the sound of that is profound / I been getting round like a town bike, travelling the atlas / Unravelling the scrolls as I roll up my mattress”

This is basically the Australian equivalent to Nas’ opening bars on ‘Verbal Intercourse’. No tricks, no tricks baby! Actually that gives me an ideas - Strut, I demand that we get some verses over some Cuban Linx beats.

FRAKSHA

BEST QUALITY WEBCAM AWARD

Now check out those production qualities! Fraksha is obviously rocking a MacBook or a top level Dell cause that webcam is cripsy clean! It sort of makes everybody elses videos look like those badly dubbed SBS titty flicks your dad had stashed in the garage in the 80’s.

BEST LINE

“Can’t forget the dirty freaks / Who want the digis of my dog and bone / Bail me up at all times / I tell em that I’m not at home.”

I can’t say this often enough. More rappers should be using rhyming slang. Seriously. You are a Barry Crocker of an MC if you don’t and you deserve a punch in your Lionel Rose from your trouble & strife for not reppin the ill oldskool vernacular.

BIAS B

BEST HYPE MAN AWARD

Leo is the best hype man since Flava Flav! He has stage presence, coughs to the beat, got a mad fingerpoint and jumps in with ad-libs each time he is name checked! I’m even betting that is a Burn Crew hoodie he is rocking. But most importantly he has mastered the essential hip hop head nod and is keeping to his underground roots by not dancing! Look how appalled he is when Bias tells him to bounce! Hell no dad, I’m not down with that Jiggy shit. I’m too busy keeping it real over here!

BEST LINE

“I left the graf scene, to rep the rap scene / Now with Leo on my lap (Leo - Yahaha) it’s Dad reppin the tag team”

And that right there is Bias to a motherfuckin tee.

So… did we miss anything? Drop a comment and let us know.

9 October

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Unpublished Trem Interview (circa 2008)

Remember Method Man’s Wu-Tang/Voltron analogy from 36 Chambers? Apply that to Lyrical Commission and Trem, not the GZA, would form the head. Progressing from painting back in the day to a vicious verbal threat on the mic he released some sought after 12’s before pulling together LC and slapping the scene upside the head. On top of that he helped found Unkut Recordings and has become one of the most talented and respected producers in the game, banging out some more pure heat for Strut’s new LP. Back in early 2008 when Strut dropped “Legend: Official” we got Trem to step out of the studio for a yak on beats, Brad and picking up the pen again.

We know yourself and Brad are really tight-knit. Now while recording Legend Official he went through a lot of bullshit and strife. Was it ever difficult making music together under the circumstances?

No never. When it comes to recording with Brad it’s fairly seamless. We’ve obviously worked together for a long time and I prefer to work with Brad than probably anybody else in the studio. It’s a breeze man. I get a lot out of working with him and I think he does with me. When you look at it from that perspective it doesn’t matter what sort of gets thrown at us. Once we hit the studio together it’s all sweet. None of that gets in the way of the job getting done. Regardless of what we’ve got on in our personal lives or whatever, as soon as we hit the studio together none of that shit is intrusive or fucks up the connection or the link that we’ve got going on in the studio, so it’s all good. If anything it might contribute to a better product at the end of the day. I love working with that dude, he’s my brother and no matter if we’ve got testing times outside of that anyway as soon as we sort of get in the studio there’s a cohesion there that’s really good.

24 September

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