Manga finally drops the long awaited mixtape 'Obzokey Wranglings' featuring a blend of 14 grime and rap tracks, with appearances from Luton based Young Kye and Nafe Smallz, JME, Opium, Rival and a solid selection of instrumentals from S-X, Wiley, G Tank and more.
If your wondering what 'Obzokey Wranglings' means, the Roll Deep member recently answered the question in an interview.
"Obzokey is a word I made up that means,just doing a normal thing in a next way. With the project I recorded it all by myself. Pressing record and then running in the booth,trying to do it in one take. Wranglings is just a word for doing your normal day to day stuff. so…yeah ‘Obzokey Wranglings."
Although this release is not purely grime, Manga proves that he can spit just as well over slower tempo's as he can 140bpm. Although if raps not your thing, the quality of the grime tracks on this release more than make up for that. Make sure you look out for '48 Hours' featuring Opium, Rival and Young Kye.
Aside from this mixtape, Manga has also recently released the single 'No Mc', produced by Preditah, featuring fellow Roll Deep pals Scratchy & J2K which you can purchase from iTunes here http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/no-mc-single/id467681780
Download the mixtape 'Obzokey Wranglings' for free by visiting his website http://www.rolldeepmanga.com/ and clicking the artwork.
Watch the video for '48 Hours' feat. Opium, Rival and Young Kye below.
This year so far in 2011, we've seen decent grime tracks being released one after the after, including Spartan, Lock Off The Rave and many many more. Well this trend shows no sign of stopping, as we start to approach the end of the year, after Logan premiered a track last Monday, which is already creating a massive buzz around it.
The track I'm talking about is from North London producer J-Beatz, entitled '8 Bar Mucktion', which features an all-star cast of grimes top mc's. The track I'm sure will be remembered as the 'Grime All-Star Track Of The Year', featuring an epic lineup including, 9 Milli Major, Big H, Kwam, Big Narstie, Sharky Majoy, Blay, MIK, Typah, Dimples, Jammin, Rival and Tre Mission.
After all the hard work the Butterz label have been putting in lately, including releases and club nights, as well as being announced as the DJ's featured for the Rinse:17 cd, they've still found time to release the Autumn Zip, a folder filled full of grime vocals and instrumentals. The folder contains around 27 tracks, featuring the likes of Royal-T, Terror Danjah, TRC, Trim (including the I Am acapella) and loads more.
You can catch the Butterz duo Elijah and Skilliam playing up and down the country in the next few months, including the Butterz Takeover raves as well, following on from the last dance they held at Cable Nightclub.
It seems the veteran grime crew Ruff Sqwad are back, a few weeks back we saw a video to the brand new track 'This Side', then we hear that the crew are currently working on the third edition of their 'Guns & Roses' series, now we see yet another brand new video, this time for the track entitled 'Las Vegas.'
The title of the track and the video seem to go hand in hand, as the video was filmed in the gambling city of America, at the same time the crew was out there filming for Tinchy Stryders' new track 'Off The Record'.
Check the video for the track below and also the behind the scenes video for Tinchy Styders' 'Off The Record' video.
After recently giving away two other instrumentals, 'Sparkplug' and 'History'. Teddy Music, formerly known as Silencer, gives away a third track, this time it's the well known instrumental 'Dog Stadium'.
There's been a lot of covers of American tracks lately, something that I'm sometimes skeptical of, but I have to admit, out of all the one's I've heard so far this has to be the best.
The Nationality mc RD has done his own cover to the Sean Garett feat. Rick Ross 'In Da Box' track, produced by Lex Luger, which he has titled 'Chasing'. RD has decided to give away the track for free, which you can download here http://t.co/DBuxemwm.
Look out for a video dropping soon for the track as well, but in the meantime check the video for his recent track 'Radio' below.
The North London mc is back, with visuals for his brand new track 'Do It Like Me' produced by 1xtra Hip Hop DJ, Charlie Sloth. It's been a while since we've heard anything from Samson, but it's fair to say he's returned with a banger, proving why no one else can do it like him.
Finally the wait is over and the massive track 'No Mc' from Manga featuring fellow Roll Deep Members Scratchy & J2K, produced by Preditah is out now via Launchpad Records.
The single release contains three track, including the original, a remix featuring an all-star cast of mc's with the likes of Brazen, Discarda, Riko, Breeze and Flowdan and even a remix of the original, produced by Scratchy.
The video, filmed and edited by SB.TV, is also out now, which showcases clips from Roll Deep's performance at this years Lovebox Festival, on the Rinse FM stage. Check it out below.
Shortly after the recent release of Trim's 'I Am' single, which was produced by TRC, the UK producer decided to give away a free EP entitled 'Leak', after receiving a 100 likes on Facebook. The EP contains 11 absolutely massive instrumentals on it, ranging from grime to garage.
TRC really is, in my opinion, one of the top producers in the scene right now and has certainly proved he can hold that title, with the high standard of the tracks featured on this release. I would try to pick to my favourite track but to tell the truth, I rate every single one of them.
So without saying anymore, just download the EP and see for yourself.
After recently releasing her free mixtapeentitled 'Roarness' Lioness drops the official video for her track entitled 'Don't Tell Me'. The video, directed by Greg Bond, was filmedat Bump, the weekly friday club nightheld at Plan B in Brixton.
Lioness chooses a dubstepproduction for this track, something we havent heard from her before, and although it would have beennice to hear this over a grime beat instead, it seems she doesn'twant to be told what to spit on.