NICE UP – Blud & M.I.A. / Witness The Flava – 2008 – Single review
RATING: 4/5
Freestyle Records head honcho, DJ Shepdog, is the man behind the Nice Up! series of quality mash-ups and never one to shy away from splicing obscure brilliance to the blatantly obvious. Thus it is that we finding M.I.A. riding her PPRPLNS vocal atop the instrumental of The Nextmen’s 2005 dancehall riddim monster Blood And Fire and a family pack of guest rappers off Craig Mack’s Flava In Ya Ear sitting heavily (if not exactly pretty) on Roots Manuva’s bomb Witness 1 Hope. There’s absolutely no doubt that both of these are 100% guaranteed to get bodies sweaty, but I just can’t help reflecting that in this case both The Nextmen’s vocal original and Roots Manuva’s vocal original were equally capable and the better tracks.
Out now on Nice Up!.
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