This is fucking good. Props to SH for the hook up.

— By Akira The Don on Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Recycling New Radicals’ 90s smash You Get What You Give. Wonder if they got paid. It was the dude from World Party wrote that, right?

Spotted on RWD.

— By Akira The Don on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6WNbJM7EWY

That is a question I have been asking myself, as every time I look at Twitter I see my old pal Bizzle practically foaming at the mouth over some “catting” that N Dubz, and Tulsa in particular, have done to him.

Well, now I know, because Joey told me. With the video above. I think this case is cut and dried, and Bizzle is right: He should never sing again!

ROLFCOPETER ON A DINOSAUR! Only joking Bizzlor.  What it is, is Bizzle sent Tulisa from N Dubz a demo of a song, which sounds deeply similar to their recent hit, I Need You. Anyway, N Dubz have responded, claiming they finished recording their song two  months before Bizzle sent them his demo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5GldvKb0fw

“Man don’t need to cat tunes off you rudeboy,” spits the one who’s name I can’t remember, looking deeply hurt. “Man write hits.” He then goes on to insinuate that Bizzle is looking to cash in on the Camden trio’s success.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLk8WIOTmf0

Bizzle responds by pointing out how big his house is. “Check the TV though, dunn know. BAM!” He then instructs N Dubz not to “gass the people” by showing files called “rough mix”. “That don’t prove nothing!” he barks, pointedly, and proceeds to show an email in which Tulisa appears to like his demo, suggesting extra vocal parts that could “spice it up”. No embedding of the video is allowed, however, and comments are disabled. Dude, internets don’t like that ish!

“Look at this table! This is Italian glass table fam!” he concludes, with a flourish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMpGLzS9BNU

Then DAPPY gets involved! UH OH! He’s coming at your ass with METADATA!

We proceed to get a lengthy lecture on the content of N Dubz’ metadata.

(Also, I learn from this video N Dubz use SOUNDFORGE! Snap!)

“Where can you modify the date?” gibbers Dappy, excitedly. “It’s impossible bruv! It’s impossible!”

Bizzle responds by pointing out that a person could show a file and play a different song. DUH! However, he has blocked his video from being embedded. AND disabled comments. Again. This won’t help His cause, and might give the WRONG IMPRESSION. But I understand. N Dubz stans go hard on the internets, real talk. Those little buggers could swarm a man’s site and merk that thing into tiny dead pieces. BAM! I still get about a hundred hits a day from people seaching “Tulisa swine flu” and “dappy hat”. TRUE TALK.

“Man’s not 12 years old fam,” notes Bizzle, sternly.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?!?!?!?!

EDIT: Bizzle just hit me up to let me know he’s sorted the Embedding issue. Cheers Biz!

— By Akira The Don on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

I was waiting for someone to do this. All hail! CJ Beats has put together a mix of the past decade of what he’s calling “UK Street Music.” And what a decade that was. Rappers started using their real accents, 2 Step gave birth to grime, grime ate pop, and Dizzee ran things. POW!

Rah though, what happened to Bruza and Bearman?

TRACKLISTING:

1. Intro

:: 2000 ::

2. Artful Dodger feat. Craig David – Re-Wind
3. DJ Deekline – I don’t Smoke the Reefer
4. Sweet Female Attitude – Flowers
5. Gods Gift – MC Tribute
6. Lonyo – Summer of Love
7. Mis-Teeq – Why?
8. Oxide & Neutrino – Bound for the Re-Load
9. MC Luck & DJ Neat – Little Bit of Luck
10. So Solid – Oh No

:: 2001 ::

11. The Streets – Has it Come to This
12. Craig David – Fill Me in
13. Daniel Bedingfield – Gotta Get Through This
14. Ms Dynamite – Booo!
15. Maxwell D – Serious
16. The Masters of Ceremony – Do You Really Like it?
17. So Solid- They Don’t Know
18. So Solid – 21 Seconds
19. Roots Manuva – Witness

:: 2002 ::

20. Blak Twang – So Rotton
21. Shy FX – Shake your body
22. Ms Dynamite – It Takes More
23. Ms Dynamite – Put Him Out
24. Fallacy – Groundbreaker
25. Musical Mobb – Pulse X / More Fire Crew – Oi
26. Heartless Crew – Heartless Theme

:: 2003 ::

27. Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up Look Sharp
28. Fallacy feat. Tubby T – Big N Bashy
29. Dizzee Rascal Vs Asher D – Commander B’s NightFlight
30. Dizzee Rascal – I Luv You
31. Donae’o – Bounce
32. Wiley – Eskimo
33. The Endz – Are you really from the Endz?

:: 2004 ::

34. The Streets feat. Donaeo, Kano & Tinchy Stryder – Fit But you know it
35. Kano – P’s & Q’s
36. Wiley – Wot U Call it
37. Lethal Bizzle – Pow
38. Dizzee Rascal – Stand Up Tall
39. Klash Ne Koff – Murda
40. Swiss – Cry
41. Estelle – 1980

:: 2005 ::

42. Sway – Intro
43. Akala – Roll Wid Us
44. Terri Walker – Oopsie Daisy
45. SLK – Hype Hype
46. Roll Deep – Heat Up
47. Roll Deep – When I’m ere
48. Roll Deep – The Avenue
49. Roll Deep – Shake A Leg

:: 2006 ::

50. Ghetto – Top 3 Selected
51. Akala – Shakespeare
52. Tinchy Stryder – Breakaway
53. Amy Winehouse – Rehab
54. Bashy – Black Boys
55. Fundamental 03 – Playground
56. Corinne Bailey Ray – Put your record on
57. N-Dubz – I Swear

:: 2007 ::

58. Dizzee Rascal – Flex
59. Skepta – Sweet Mother
60. Skepta – Duppy
61. Wiley – Gangsterz
62. Wiley – Bow E3
63. Roll Deep – Celebrate That
64. Benga & Coki – Night / T2 – Heartbroken

:: 2008 ::

65. Giggs – Talkin The Hardest
66. M.I.A. – Paper Planes
67. Chipmunk – Who Are You
68. Sway – F your Ex
69. Wiley – Wearing My Rolex
70. Skepta – Rolex Sweep
71. Estelle – American Boy
72. Tinchy Stryder – Stryderman
73. Dizzee Rascal – Dance Wiv Me

:: 2009 ::

74. Attacca Pesante – Make It Funky For Me
75. Perempay & Dee – Feel it in the Air
76. Egypt & Fuzzy Logic – In the Morning
77. Fr3e – Tribal Skank
78. Gracious Kay / Funky Dee – Show Me Are U Gonna Bang
79. BBK – Too Many Man
80. Lethal Bizzle feat. Donae’o – Go Hard
81. Bashy – Who Wants to be a Millionaire
82. Chipmunk – Diamond Rings
83. Tinchy Stryder – You’re Not Alone
84. Wiley – Take That
85. Donae’o – Party Hard

— By Akira The Don on Monday, January 11th, 2010

I just read that everybody’s favourite memeber of N-Dubz that isn’t Dappy is being tested for Rumsfled Swine Flu in greece.

The lead singer from chart-toppers N-Dubz is being treated in a Greek hospital for a suspected case of swine flu, the band’s manager confirmed.

Tulisa Contostavlos, 20, from north London, was taken to hospital in Athens after being taken ill on a flight to the country on Thursday.

So sayeth the Press Association.

Rah though, it’s all well and good calling it Rumsfeld Flu – he is, after all, dictionary definition SWINE, and sick to boot… but did I mention Rummy’s last crack at a Swine Flu pandemic?

I shall quote Lisa Parsons, from a review of “Crab Wars: A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism, and Human Health,” by William Sargent, from 2002.

“The Rumsfeld [connection to Swine Flu] starts in 1976, when a military recruit in New Jersey died from a flu that experts speculated might be the swine flu virus of 1918 pandemic fame. As Sargent tells it, Rumsfeld, who was then and is again the nation’s secretary of defense, made the imminent swine flu a political issue to add some spark to the campaign of President Ford, an interim leader without a cause. At Rumsfeld’s urging, the administration would ensure that “every man, woman and child” was vaccinated. Huge amounts of vaccine were produced and distributed quickly.

Some batches were contaminated… Six hundred people sickened and 52 died. The program was stopped a month after the election. And nobody got swine flu. It was “modern medicine’s most flagrant miscalculation.” How will the United States protect itself against bioterrorism?? The Department of Defense proposes 40 million new doses of smallpox vaccine. Sargent is concerned about the possibility of bacterial contamination in vaccines that are rushed to market, and suggests that such contamination might have been behind adverse reactions to the vaccine in the past. [Rumsfeld] is one of the architects of the present campaign.”

So, if Tulisa gots the Swine AIDS, all of you N-Dubz fanatics know who to blame merk. GO TEAM!

And, in good news, she’s at number one, along with Tinchy Stryder and her boys. So that’s something. Get well soon Tulisa!

— By Akira The Don on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009