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   From: kill@killkill.org   
      
   "Simon Burrows"  wrote in   
   news:_hkxc.40627$wd7.32372@front-1.news.blueyonder.co.uk:   
      
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   > "Alan D aka Big AL aka SpeciAL"  wrote in   
   > message news:%P6xc.544$HN2.290@newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net...   
   >>   
   >> "Eric Big E"  wrote in message   
   >> news:348e4cb4.0406071035.4d5d6e06@posting.google.com...   
   >> > Honestly, I see this CD (Original Pirate Material) getting crazy   
   >> > high reviews everywhere.  But it is the worst shit I have ever   
   >> > heard in my life.  Honestly, Mike is horribly nasal and sounds like   
   >> > Urkel when he rhymes, he's off-beat as hell (which is apparently a   
   >> > "style"), and his beats are 2-step rejects.  I saw that reggae   
   >> > style video on RapCity one night and it was hilariously bad.  "And   
   >> > then you will buy theemmmm."  It looked like he filmed it at one of   
   >> > those tourist traps where you can like superimpose yourself next to   
   >> > King Kong or flying a jet.  Is this guy popular in Britain as like   
   >> > a joke, like people put it on and go "Hahahahahah, this is the   
   >> > shitty as hell" or do people honestly enjoy listening to him?   
   >>   
   >> It's good.   
   >> It really is.   
   >> It's just something different.  I wouldn't describe it as rapping.   
   >> It's more talking in semi-rhymes, using a lot of slang.   
   >>   
   >> It's just commical, and refreshing to hear something a bit different.   
   >> And the beats are nice aswell.   
   >>   
   >> As I said, it is not rap.   
   >>   
   >> peace   
   >> big AL aka alan d   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Co-Sign.   
   >   
   > I loved Original Pirate Material, not feeling the new one as much, but   
   > bits are good.   
   >   
   > Basically, it's down to listening to the music and being able to   
   > relate to his lyrics. The stuff he talks about is very British and   
   > very much about being an average guy living in Britain. Going   
   > clubbing, doing E, trying to chat up girls, gambling, drinking etc   
   > etc. Weak Become Heroes basically summed up the whole house music   
   > scene in Britain.   
   >   
   > It's not hiphop and it's not rap. It's practically just poetry (if   
   > that, even)... but it's good.   
   >   
   > Am I the only person in the world that can hear the brummie in his   
   > voice? Everyone goes on about his fake cockney accent... he spent a   
   > large amount of his young life in London *and* Birmingham... I've   
   > always thought his accent pretty much reflected this exactly.   
   >   
   > The being able to relate to the lyrics is the main thing, they're the   
   > really strong bit about him (when he's on point... forget that 'Fit   
   > but you know it' crap). Hell, I have no idea what it's like growing up   
   > in the projects in New York... but I know exactly what Mike's on   
   > about.   
      
      
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