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Producers – Jidenna (exec.), Nana Kabwena, Sonny Digital, Hit Boy Most Personal Tracks – “Konnichiwa” “That’s Not Me”įinal Assessment – 8/10 Jidenna – The Chief (2017)įeatures – Janelle Monae, Nana Kabwena, Roman GlanArthur, St. Vibiest Tracks – “Ladies Hit Squad” “Detox!”
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Hardest Tracks – “Man (Gang)” “Numbers” “Crime Riddim” “Shutdown” Konnichiwa is versatile and concise, and probably just the beginning of a very dominating and successful run by Skeppy. You can see the effort he’s taking to push our sound, the UK sound, to the mainstream – or to at least cement its place as not just a fad, but part of Hip Hop history. The take-away from this for me, is that Skepta is back and ready to claim his crown as King of the Streets. This album has been in the works for about 2 or 3 years and over that time period Skepta has released songs here and there, all 5 of which actually made it on Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa is a good album, but somewhat disappointing in terms of new material.
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But in terms of versatility, he slows down the flow and bpm to ride out on Pharell’s “Numbers”, switches up the classic grime flow and adds aspects of storytelling in the first-person-shooter, hood movie style “It Aint Safe” and “Crime Riddim” – both of which are actually joined together by an interlude of sorts, that sounds like two guys playing call of duty over the internet. Like, if I met someone (who’d been living under rock) who didn’t know Skepta, I’d play them one of those. Songs like”Man (Gang)” and “Shutdown” hit the hardest in terms of what one would expect from a Grime record.
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And with that he’s brought back his classic Grime sound, with a 2016 update to it. Nothing that particularly stands out within his catalogue of music, and there was almost nothing of the Skepta we knew before the success, nor the one he’s since come back around to being.Īnd he is back – back to the Nike Tech tracksuits, windbreaker jackets and other general ‘roadman’ attire. And his music at that time suffered slightly too, in my opinion. “That’s Not Me” is a good example of this, where Skepta talks about putting his GucciLouisFendiPrada clothes and accessories ‘in the bin… cos that’s not me’ (*winces* the bin tho?), after a period of trying to bend to fit the figure of what a successful rapper should look like, according to the blueprint that the Americans had laid out for him. But for rap and hip hop, shedding all our quirks that made us us, and made us British, in turn diminished the final product – leaving behind inauthentic, uninspiring versions of styles they already had.Įnter Grime: the purest style of rap we have in the UK, that is unique to us and us only. This was the process, and the ones who succeeded were the ones who made the smoothest transition. Usually this would entail the artist moving over there and trying to assimilate as unawkwardly as possible – so for rappers this meant taking on the Americans’ producers, sound, slang, accent… and then the sunglasses and the chains and the Versace slippers or whatever else American rappers are known for. There used to exist a thing in UK music where artists would at some point attempt to ‘break America’. British black and minority youths are cripplingly unrepresented in media and music, even within the ‘urban’ Hip Hop, R&B and Rap genres which are nominally dominated by American artists. Skepta appears to be in a place where he has looked at the state of UK hip hop, Grime, and London urban culture and found a huge void. If there is a theme to this album it’s responsibility.
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Skepta‘s always had a knack for being very autobiographical and personal in his music, without coming off as emotional like Drake. Features – Pharrell, JME, BBK, Novelist, Wiley, Chip, D Double E, A$AP Nast, Young Lord