Knowledge God # 7

So the receptionist emailed me last week and said ‘Your hoodied hooligan mate just dropped off something off for you’.  So I went downstairs and there was Bias B’s new LP ‘Biaslife’ waiting for me at the front desk. Bias delivers! Not just in the save postage on promo sense either, cause the album is the Melbourne stalwart and Obese legend’s best work to date. Sure ‘Beezwax’ will always be an absolute classic in everybody’s eyes, but his latest full-length lyrically shows Bias’ growth and maturity as both an MC and as a man. This is some grown ass rap shit over some production from the likes of Doc Felix, Lazy Grey and Aux One that is polished and proper.

So supposedly Nas and Mobb Deep have patched up their differences (read – Prodigy has stopped being an arrogant arsehole douche) and are now talking about recording an album together.

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31 May Permalink

Knowledge God # 6

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.

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2 May 2 Permalink

Knowledge God # 5

Greetings ass hats and welcome back to Knowledge God. I’ve left this column last minute and have drunk too much stolen Bacardi, so get ready for some Dave Funkenklein-esque stream of consciousness;

The Flood Money Auction is auctioning off some ridiculously dope shit from a who’s who of local hip hop for the Premiers Disaster Relief Appeal. Some rare and signed Bliss & Eso, Hoods and Syllabolix vinyl has already gone for some major cheddar and more gold keeps rolling through the door. Check www.floodmoney.org and prepare to eat mi-goreng for a month. Oh yeah and there is a Beat Raffle around the corner which is going to be nuts.

Saigon has finally dropped “The Greatest Story Never Told” and it truly sounds 5 years late. I mean some of the tracks like ‘The Invitation’ are fire, but at the moment I just can’t help feeling I would have loved this a lot more if it had dropped half a decade ago. The Yardfather bars and Just Blaze production have just been sitting on the shelf too long.

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14 February 2 Permalink

Knowledge God # 4

Latest installment of Knowledge God column for BEAT Magazine, out in Melbourne tomorrow. Now nick off hairy legs….

What was that douchebag? You haven’t copped Bigfoot’s LP ‘Giant Steps’ yet? You can stop reading then cause we can’t be friends anymore. I guess you must be allergic to gingas relentlessly stomping grimy flows over heavy production then? Yeah? Well go back to your radio friendly fluff. The Melbourne Hired Goon is not built for you jellybean rappers. The production from the man and Heata is straight murder music that Prodigy would give his seal of approval and Bigfoot’s verbals are basically the audio equivalent of a standover man giving you 2 days to fucking pay up or he is coming back for your thumbs. Classic!

For those not following the Rapper Tag ‘phenomenon’ (no LL Cool J) yet, you better jump on the bandwagon and act like you know by heading over to  www.rappertag.com.

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14 December 1 Permalink

Knowledge God # 3

I was lazy this week. Deal with it….

Raven is one of the best lyricists in the country. Print that shit. If you slept on his wordplay when he was rolling with Lost Soulz, never checked out how live a Crate Cartel / Hungry Humans show gets or somehow missed his debut ‘Humble Beginnings’ then it’s time you pulled your head out of the sand dummy. Raven stomps his polished intricate flow all over some tight boom-bap production from Geko, Cam Bluff, WIK and Engineer and actually has lyrics worth absorbing “Righteous and the Wretched” with Vents will make you want to throw bricks, “The Hermit Song” will make you want to throw trackie dacks on and “Hush” is one of the best Australian posse cuts recorded. Get it.

So Blahzay Blahzay are suing Wyclef for jacking their 90’s classic “Danger” (If you don’t know it, I want you to stab yourself in the ears right now. Orat least youtube it for some classic east-coast ish). Seems the sometime rapper, failed President and wannabe Jimi Hendrix sampled it for one of his no-doubt terrible solo tracks and now PF Cuttin and MC Out Loud are looking for some of that Fugee money. Oh my god!

Damn, I was slow off the mark with Slaine’s LP -‘A Word With No Skies’. It absolutely knocks and is as dope as Slaine is Irish. At times I have flashbacks to Rawku-era Eminem, but the La Coka Nostra MC is far from a Marshall Mathers clone. He spits relentlessly with no goddam brakes on over the entire album and the hooks will get stuck in your head for days.

So Guilty Simpson and Phat Kat are here in February? Nasty Aint It!!

Dear half-assed Australian music writers. Just cause you recently heard Nicki Minaj on the latest Ye album doesn’t mean you have uncovered the latest ‘underground rap sensation’. Please stop embarrassing yourself, get off Nicki’s dick and kindly shut your word hole.

Percee P seriously went of his way to meet half the crowd last weekend at his show with Jean and Pharaohe. A dope lyricist AND a humble dude. Now can somebody please get him on some goddam Showbiz and Buckwild beats for the love of Christ!?

Also Jean Grae has a promising career in stand-up comedy if rap never works out. Which it should, cause she raps better than all of you.

Much respect to Bias B for organising the Heat For Hunts auction. A stack of donated and signed rare local wax, CD’s and tapes all got sold which means that 11 G’s will now be going to SBX emcee legend Hunter who has been fighting cancer. One of the best shows of solidarity I’ve witnessed in the scene.

Can somebody please get Jedi Mind Tricks over immediately?

More of you fools should be tuning into Top Billin Radio on RRR every Friday. Sheriff Rosco and Mr Lee Rawls hold Melbourne down. Their ciphers are going to be the stuff of legend in 10 years time. Truth.

Dear Big Day Out. It was nice you added Black Milk to the line-up, but you still need help figuring out this rappity rap stuff. Seriously.

3 December 3 Permalink

Knowledge God #2

The weekly column for BEAT got bumped this issue as adspace dollars always takes priority over schooling people about hip hop. So you suckas can cop my stream of consciousness bullshit instead… 

Joe Budden isn’t having a very good week. First his mug was plastered all over New Jersey newspapers cause he is jerking his kids on child support. Then old pal Just Blaze let loose with both cannons after hearing one of his un-mastered beats on Joey’s new ‘Mood Muzik 4’. Seems that Budden forgot to mention he was stealing it. Perhaps Budden should just take Prodigy’s advice and give up the mic and start painting houses.

So Brad Strut is giving up page 3 girls and awful English weather and returning home to Melbourne. Therefore I demand a Lyrical Commission reunion show. Plus that collabo with Delta that has been whispered about.

Jean Grae is not only rolling out here with Pharaohe Monch and Percee P next month to tear down the Prince Bandroom and get more tattoos in Brunswick, she will also be bringing the funniest tweet game in the universe with her and new LP ‘Cupcakes or Death’.

If you haven’t picked up Class A’s ‘Secret Life of a Receptionist’ yet then I question your commitment to Sparkle Motion….. oh sorry, I mean hip hop, yeah hip hop.

After a decade or so of dropping some of the funniest punchlines and  guest verses, a couple of collabo projects with fellow MC’s J-Zone and Majik Most,  pressing up Weatherman diss tracks aimed at himself to pocket the profits and generally having the finest manicured beard in hip hop - Celph Titled has finally got around to releasing a proper solo LP. The long awaited team up of the Demigodz kingpin with DITC legend Buckwild does not disappoint cause “Nineteen Ninety Now” sounds like it was just bought from Fat Beats in 95 and would sit comfortably between Big L and Lord Finesse on the record shelf. Even though there is one weird track with a chick singing the hook, this LP is an absolute classic front to back. Buy it.

Hey Pegz, can we please rehash the Tim Dog beef? That was the funniest hip hop grudge for a minute. We definitely need to see more inter-continental beef.

Rap City last year was the shit. Seeing Masta Ace and Edo G hold it down was awesome, Premo actually didn’t play down his se-list to the Aus audience for once and getting drunk to the Beatnuts live can now be ticked off the bucket list. Now we got a new line-up for 2010. On December 18 get you’ll get Blackalicious, RA the Rugged Man, Murs and 9th Wonder at The Espy.  Dope! RA sticks out like a sore thumb though. Wonder if he will be getting us all to yell ‘Fuck security!’ and end up getting thrown out of his own gig like last time?

Anybody else think that this Freddie Gibbs kid is on some next level shit? Str8 Killa is definitely no filler.

All you kids who ONLY listen to Oz Hip Hop should shoot yourself. Or at the very least purchase something like ‘Stress: The Extinction Agenda’, ‘Strictly Business’ or ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions’ and open your goddam narrow-minded ignorant ears and delve into the origins and influences that have shaped our local scene.  Hilltop Hoods are great, but they didn’t invent hip hop.

Kanye’s LP cover is even worse than Doggystyle. A kindergarten kid would have got an F for it. And you can’t get F’s in kindergarten!

3 November 6 Permalink