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New Dj shadow album isn't great imo. Every release they say it's a return to near-Endtroudcing quality, but nah.

Skepta's new(ish) album's pretty sweet. Not really hip hop but close enough.

Ironhide wrote:(DJ Shadow: Walkie Talkie)

That is totally ace! I haven't listened to any DJ Shadow stuff since Endtroducing but I really like that.

Meanwhile... I only just realised that De La Soul's new album, "and the Anonymous Nobody", is out next month . I love nearly all of their stuff .

This track, Pain, is from the album:

That De La talk has got me digging out some old tracks. It *is* all good when this is playin' :

jawafour wrote:...I only just realised that De La Soul's new album, "and the Anonymous Nobody", is out next month...

Got it played.

Hmmn.

It's... gonna need another listen. I do like it but it feels a bit meandering; it never really kicks off. There are lots of collaborations and I know that a ton of effort has been put into making all of the samples and stuff. But I can't name a single track where I thought "yeah, now that's good". Off the cuff, it feels like De La has spent a little too much time on factoring in the other artists than just making good tunes.

But, hey, that's just one play. There is enough there to make me want to spin it agin and I will. I'm hoping that I can pay a bit more attention to the lyrics and start getting into it.

Probably my two favourite Wu-Tang songs.

This popped up on my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify.

Mafro wrote:This popped up on my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify.

Nice.

That Discover Weekly thing's strawberry floating great, so accurate at producing tunes

RTJ3 is out! http://runthejewelsstore.com/

Die Hard is Shite wrote:RTJ3 is out! http://runthejewelsstore.com/

Best Christmas ever.

Anybody seen Hip-Hop Evolution on Netflix? It's a three part series tracing, well, the evolution of hip-hop. Lots of great archive footage and an impressive group of interviewees. Well worth a watch, particularly after The Get Down.

is it presented by Rodney P or is it a different show?

and nice one Mafro! perfect Christmas music

tbh 'Christmas Miracle' off RTJ1 has sleigh bells!

might as well post this in here too:

Potentially their best album yet.

i think Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition is my 2016 hip-hop album of the year, it is just unique:

Mentioned it in clt too but strawberry float me RTJ3's great, can't stop listening to it.

Discovered Meow the Jewels for the first time yesterday too

Rocsleddy wrote:Discovered Meow the Jewels for the first time yesterday too

That was fun once, and once only.

Tell you what, though, since RTJ3 came out, I've listened to almost nothing but their three albums, plus Killer Mike's R.A.P. Music, and El-P's Cancer for Cure. Can't get enough.

twitter.com/runjewels/status/820933625407565824

All miles from me:(

Rocsleddy wrote:All miles from me:(

Are you still in Scotland? There's a Glasgow date on the 26th at the O2 ABC that's not on the poster for some reason.