007 - License To Speak

Oooh 10th March is drawing ever closer now! Not only do we have Benga's "Diary Of An Afro Warrior" dropping, but Ghetto's "Freedom Of Speech" will be released as well! I can't believe it's 5 days before St Patrick's Day as well, do these guys have no souls?!?! I'll be stealing other people's Guinness all day it seems because these are two albums not to be missed out on.
"Mountain" is the first track to be leaked from the forthcoming CD. In my opinion it is sounding great and I can't wait for the Lewi White and Smasher exclusively produced CD. Ghetto is sounding as hungry as ever and the beat is fresh. Roll on the 10th March, it can't come soon enough.

Check the clip of Mountain



Second thing I need to touch on is the hype surrounding the recent Kanye West blog. The teddy bear fetish fiend posted up a video of Dagenham's very own Devlin and Dogzilla spitting for the Practice Hours DVD. The blog can be found here "Kanye West's Blog". He entitled the post "Gangster Rap" which was a slightly unusual name and has had many tongues wagging across the forums. Make your own minds up how you feel about the situation. I don't think Devlin or Dogzilla came across badly enough in the video to warrant Kanye to post it as a joke, and even if he did it's still giving them a good level of promotion. It's nice to see some Americans actually enjoying it too, so I believe it to be a success, whether Kanye's intentions were good or bad. I have to laugh at the talk about whenever Kanye arrives back in the UK, getting Devlin to run up into the studio and battle him. Oh and for any gamblers, Devlin would slaughter him. But mucho respect for Kanye for keeping his eyes open to the Grime scene and shining a bit of light on it.

Also Devlin has posted up a 4 track E.P. with the astoundingly original name of "Devz E.P." It can be downloaded here: "Devz E.P."
All four tracks are brilliant and it's a very sweet little taster before his album "Bud, Sweat And Beers" gets released. Make sure to keep an eye out for more downloads at OT Recordings