Companion piece: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2019/03/stad...

I liked that, although I was never much of a fan - couldn't stand 'I Need Love' and with 'Mama Said...' I thought he was trying too hard. I don't think 'hip hop’s core audience had become more conservative' either - the genre hadn't yet peaked: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2020/01/line...

That's funny - I've just finished off a playlist based around similar themes: open.spotify.com/playlist/27i...

Oh, if only you'd been a Plymouth based record label!

Some people might forget, but for a long while in the '80s Eddie Murphy was HUGE. He was also very cool - kids in the know at my school were watching quoting his stand-up.

Thanks for the tip off. 'Trees' in particular is beautiful - I've used it to round of this year's compilation (I did actually buy it, btw. I just use Spotify as a kind of repository): open.spotify.com/playlist/1ri...

Side 2 of that Sindecut single - Wisdom - is a lost British hip hop classic: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2020/02/line...

The Hack's on it and that's quite good, even if only because, while watching it, for the first time in my life I felt an odd nostalgia for the 2000s. It's not even a decade to which I can attach anything like an identifiable fashion or style, but somehow it conveyed one.

May the stadium last a very long time: embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2019/09/stad...

Oh, it wasn't that bad. I was just skint, and the short-term contracts I was taking on were badly paid, dispiriting, and ultimately led nowhere. But I was fit and healthy and I was cycling a lot, which kept my spirits up. Your situation sounds way more stressful than mine ever was.

Another great read. Incidentally, The Field were also the backdrop to a bit of a rough time in my life (although not half as rough as yours, by the sounds of it): embracethemargin.blogspot.com/2018/04/line...

Choice cut: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F01f...

#BlackSheep #flavorofthemonth #herbalpert

Good shout (even if I am more of From Here We Go Sublime kind of guy).

Choice Cut - Chapter & the Verse with Black Whip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8l3...

Interesting stuff; sent me down a bit of a wormhole and I found this: revsoc21.uk/2016/11/27/a...

Choice Cut - this has never got the recognition it deserves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3VF...

Choice cut: www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pc...

Check out volumes 1 (not derived from National Fresh) and 3 and 4 (derived from National Fresh and the Rap Selection that succeeded it).