Blu & Nottz Releasing Afrika Album Share Preview With Marcus Garvey Single
Los Angeles independent hip-hop icon Blu is releasing a joint album with producer Nottz this Friday. Afrika celebrates the history and culture of the continent and Blu's connection to his ancestral home. "Marcus Garvey," featuring Canadian and Detroit rappers Shad and Quelle Chris, is the first single to drop from the project. The reference to Garvey and his UNIA movement that advocated for Black Americans to migrate to Africa is the origin of their "Back To Africa" chant. The trio raps about the benefits of a mass motherland return over Nottz's hard-slapping percussive beats embedded with samples of James Brown. Blu explains,
“These are lyrics that I needed to express to those who support my music, so they can hold with them what I hold most important to who I am, African. I hope this project inspires many others to speak on the father and home of humanity, Afrika.”
Blu and Nottz have previously collaborated on the Gods In The Spirits EP and the Titans In The Flesh EP. Afrika will be released Friday, but CDs and limited edition colored vinyl can be pre-ordered now. Blu released another collaboration earlier this year, Bad News With Real Bad Man.
Special night, out with good friends 🎶🙏🏻🎤 #juganaut #peggysskylight #timeandplace #nottz #bristours #live #gigs (at Peggy's Skylight) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnSdvnksfsD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Loophole is finally here! Join me on this journey of emotional connection dealing with grief, love, depression, triumphs, and farewells. This mixtapes shines a light on some of my favorite producers like MF DOOM, Nujabes, and Nottz. Check out the full thing on Bandcamp or Youtube
Live From Nottz Arena ft. Amy Taylor
If the legends are true, the first ever Sleaford Mods gig took place at a cafe near Nottingham Station in 2007. An apt place for Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn to start their journey – one that has taken them around the world physically, to new places sonically and through the strangest times lyrically – but they have never lost their connection with home. Hence late in 2021 a "guy shouting and a bloke with a laptop" staged one of the first big post pandemic gigs at the Nottingham Arena.
It was a night to celebrate and a night for old friends, but also a time to aim for new horizons and start a new chapter. Documenting how far one of Britain's most original bands have come, while revealing Williamson and Fearn straining forward creatively, these recordings also demonstrate what Sleaford Mods do better than anyone else: they make a connection. Whether it is a cafe or an arena, Sleaford Mods engage and entertain and this EP captures the duo's biggest and best live performance... so far.
Listen to Live From Nottz Arena here: https://ffm.to/modslivefromnottzarena
New album ‘UK GRIM’ out 10 March 23 via Rough Trade Records. https://sleafordmods.ffm.to/ukgrim
Pretty sure you have to be from the British Isles to understand this one but it’s a fucking great song... even if I have no idea what’s going on beyond the footloose, Journey, and Nick Lowe ref’s
The smell of piss is so strong
It smells like decent bacon
Kevin's getting footloose on the overspill
Under the piss-station
Two pints destroyer on the cobbled floors
No amount of whatever is gonna chirp the chip up
It's the Final Countdown by fuckin' JourneyI
woke up with shit in my sock outside the Polish off-license
"They don't mind, " said the arsehole to the legs
You got to be cruel to be kind, shit man
Save it up like Norman Colon
Release the stench of shit grub like a giant toilet Kraken
The lonely life that is touring
I got an armful of decent tunes, mate
But it's all so fuckin' boring
Tied up in Nottz, with a Z, you cunt
Black t-shirts and state toss
Nobby's nuts, the rule of rough cuts
A to Z of nothing gets all the shiz
We are real, we are lucky, 20p in the 10p mix
Crab eyes, another lonely little DJ with no fuckin' life
Weetabix, England, fuckin' shredded wheat, Kellogs cunts
On bleak shiz, on our cock, the green light don't stop
The shit homegrown dealers of Berlin begging for lolly
And it's beautiful how the privileged still let 'em in
Tied up in Nottz, shit!
And then the dealer's tipped up!
Tied up in Nottz, shit!
And then the dealer's tipped up!
Tied up in Nottz, shit!
And then the dealer's tipped up!
Tied up in Nottz, shit!
And then the dealer's tipped up!
Big up the riots!
Vursatyl - "Hard On The Boulevard" (feat. Lunden Benard & Krispy Hendrixx)
Vursatyl and Lunden Benard team up with producer Nottz Raw for "Hard On The Boulevard," a reflective piece on real-life issues like police brutality, racism, black disenfranchisement, and more.
Vursatyl and Lunden Benard team up with producer Nottz Raw for “Hard On The Boulevard,” a reflective piece on real-life issues like police brutality, racism, black disenfranchisement, and more.
Vursatyl and Lunden give listeners a look into the way that they see the “many shades of gray” in today’s black & white society.
Listing some of the various ways that being black in America can be an…