GANGRENE: ‘The Last Great Disgrace’ video (2015)

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GANGRENE (ALCHEMIST & OH NO) feat. HAVOC & SEAN PRICE: ‘Sheet Music’ video (2015)

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GANGRENE (ALCHEMIST & OH NO): Reversals (2015)

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GANGRENE feat. ACTION BRONSON: Driving Gloves (2015) Video

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INSPECTAH DECK, 7L & ESOTERIC: Czarface (2013)

It’s the return of comic-book/ gangster film-inspired backpack rap everybody! Thrill to the boom, gasp at the bap as swathes of fanboys come out of retirement and shake the moths from their Carhartts and Eastpaks. Czarface finds core Wu-Tang member Inspectah Deck team up with a pair of the Boston underground’s finest – 7L & Esoteric – for a fourteen track album-length reprise of the first time they hooked up fourteen years ago on 7LES’s Speaking Real Words EP. Obviously Esoteric and Deck take the lion’s share of mic duties but our hip-hop czars have been joined …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

CHIMA ANYA feat. Francis Mott: Flexible (2012) Free download

Unlike that charlatan Dre, UK rapper Chima Anya really is a doctor. He’s also ‘flexible’ as he reveals here going in over Oh No’s instrumental The Funk beat. Not flexible in the lap-dancer sense of course, he’s on about his easy-going disposition which facilitates changes of plans, and a general…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. SCREECHY DAN & WHANDAH THE DAINTY QUEEN: Oh No (2012) + video

DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. SCREECHY DAN & WHANDAH THE DAINTY QUEEN: Oh No (2012) + video
RATING: 5/5
Oh No? ‘Oh yes’ more like! This has been threatening to drop since back in the summer and I for one am grateful the wait is over. Essentially Dublin’s bass-iest, Dirty Dubsters (along with sometime collaborators – old school NY toaster Screechy Dan and dancehall chanteuse Whandah The Dainty Queen), rework elements of a rather well-known reggae classic into something of seismic proportions. …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM