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Oh my frigging gosh, you’d never guess what?
I’m a millionaire. Well no actually. I think the correct term is billionaire. I’m so excited I could keel over now in utter shock and happiness. Turns out right, that I’m the long lost daughter of a miss Anita Mabu and her husband (who is presumably my dad) has just died, leaving her a widow, and she hasn’t got a bank account in Nigeria, so she’s leaving me all of his money. All I’ve got to do is send her my bank details and I’m quids in.
I can’t breath, I’m soooo excited. I’m going to take all of my friends shopping in LA, buy a massive car (a pink one with Betty Boop designed seats and baby blue dice), then I’m going to go to the Bahama’s on holiday with my boyfriend (okay I don’t have one YET, but I’m sure the offers will start rolling in once everyone realises I’m like dirty stinking rich), then I’m going to give the woman who I thought was my mum (i.e the woman who’s an older looking version of me who’s brought me up my whole life), give her like a million pounds so she can do whatever, I’ll explain that I’ve found my new mum now and so therefore she’s no longer needed (and all that jazz). In the midst of that I’m going to quit all of my jobs and completely be rude to every single member of staff I’ve never liked and ruin any relationship in the ‘working world’ that I have. But who cares? I’m a millionaire. Right?
- Yeah. Pull the other one.
In all honesty its quite hilarious. The grammar they use, the way they try and sell their story and make you feel sorry for them whilst trying to make you believe you’re a special person and you’re going to become dirt stinking rich, the way they’ve composed their story… It’s all a bit LOL.
What isn’t LOL though, is the majority of people who actually fall for it. Let me tell you from now, you are not… I repeat NOT going to become a millionaire. Some rich widow from Nigeria does not think you are her long-lost-African-daughter, this is NOT a family reunion, she is NOT going to give you a millions pounds when you give her your email address, what she is going to do though, is scam the shit out of you, ruin your financial situation, steal all of your money, transfer large sums of other money into your account and then wipe all of the evidence so there’s nothing in the world of worlds you can do about it and so you’re left with a big fat dirty debt.
Anyway, I’ve replied to some of these messages to see what happens. A good journalist always chases her story. (think journalist Kate Spicer loosing over a stone in 6 weeks and becoming ridiculously thin all in aid of a good story).
I’ll let you know how it goes. But for now I’m off to spend my fortune…
Toodles.
P.s (boyfriends apply within – CV’s to be sent to iwannabesiansboyfriend@mistajam.com with a paragraph on how amazing I am and how you’re going to help me spend my fortune).
Luvage
Sian x
JAKWOB GUEST MIX **FREE DOWNLOAD**
20 year old James Jacob aka Jakwob is fast becoming the remixer of choice having recently remixed Ellie Goulding, Temper Trap, Lily Allen and Killa Kela to name but a few. Not bad for a Lincoln born Uni Student!
Starting out failing to form a band at Uni, James picked up his computer and started to make his own eclectic beats; in fact, his bass heavy first remix (for up & comer Thomas Jules) got him his first ever airplay on my show back at the start of 2009! Since then, he’s literally blown up – playing gigs across the world and remixing some of the biggest & exciting names out there.
Last night, he put together a guest mix for my show – something he said he’s wanted to do for a few years – and boy, he didn’t disappoint. Taking in all his influences and adding in some of his own trademark wobble; he’s allowed me to put that mix up for free download here on mistajam.com. Tracklisting, download link & password follows after the jump…
DOCTOR – TEK YOUR TIME (VIRAL VIDEO)
Doctor’s new single “Tek Your Time” has got a new viral video to reinforce it’s positive message. The former Jam Hot produced by Chase & Status is gathering momentum at the moment and quite rightly as it’s a bonafide BIG tune with a very positive message. Check out the video:
Doctor himself says: “Tek Your Time is a message to the youths: please think before you make your next move. It’s an epidemic we can all control – lets aspire to be the best”
The track is released soon on Doctor’s own label AV Records.
RIZ MC & THE FONEJACKER ARE BLOWING PEOPLE AWAY!
“Four Lions” seems to be the British film that’s blowing everyone away at this years Sundance Film Festival. It’s produced by Chris Morris – the man behind The Day Today & Brass Eye – and stars the mega talented Riz MC alongside Kayvan Novak aka The Fonejacker, Arsher Ali and Adeel Akhtar.
It’s a dark comedy about four clueless suicide bombers from Sheffield who attempt to create a terrorist attack during the London Fun Run. I have to admit the first time I heard about this film I was a bit unsure but after seeing this hilarious clip I can see why it’s getting the attention it deserves.
By Sandy
LADY LESHURR = UK NICKI MINAJ?
Lady Leshurr – The Unleshurr.
We love that I’m brutally honest right? So in my review we shall trust.
Now if you haven’t heard “Unleshurr” – the new long awaited and heavily Twitter promoed (as Leshurr had been mentioning it via her Twitter for months!) mixtape from the 22 year old female self confessed “diva”, then you’re missing out. The mixtape was released last night and contains 11 tracks and a Westwood skit. Most interestingly, out of those 11 tracks, 8 of them are cover versions of Drake songs.
This could have gone both ways as expectations were very high.
Recent conversation has sparked within the UK industry regarding UK being as strong lyrically as America and Leshurr has been dubbed by MistaJam as “equally as good, if not better than Young Money’s Nikki Minaj” – Drake’s label mate. Was this Leshurr’s way of proving that to both scenes?
Now as I’ve mentioned before in my OMA’s review, I’m unsure as to where the Rap/Grime barrier is raised nowadays, but I’d call Drake rap, and Leshurr is (as she says herself) a Grime artist; so her spitting over American rap beats had me completely confused – and before you all get your knickers in a twist, yes there is a difference between being an ‘artist’ and a ‘Grime artist’!
The UK is full up with talented Grime producers: Royal T, Silencer, Terror Danjah and Rude Kid to name a few; not to mention disgustingly good Dubstep producers such as Sukh Knight, The Others and Doctor P so why were none of them on UnLeshurr? I asked her – are you trying to be the UK Nicki Minaj?
“The reason I did a Drake CD is because every beat he’s vocalled I have always liked to do myself. I was going to call it Drake VS Leshurr but settled with UnLeshurr, [but] I am going to do a CD each month which will be a different genre just to show people I am versatile and experimenting with my voice/style and technique”.
To be honest that could have been a fail as far as I’m concerned, but fortunately in terms of flows and in terms of concepts the covers on the mixtape are all good so I see no reason why she shouldn’t now receive props for it. Leshurr – that could have gotten messy for you though. Which again, shows me her confidence in herself not being just a Grime artist, but an artist. Her lyrical content is hot and the way she mixes up her flow is pure talent. While the Birmingham born & raised female emcee hasn’t mastered her flow just yet, this mixtape proves she’s putting in the work and developing as an artist.
The track I’d tell people to wheel-uppppp would be ‘09 – Last Hope’, it’s very deep, an insight to Leshurr’s feelings about music and contains a good use of metaphors.
I’d like to hear some hard core Dubstep beats and Grime beats on your next mixtape Leesh but this will definitely be transferred onto my iPhone for long TFL journeys and general listening. “Money To Grow” (track 12) is also a wicked track. On it, she talks about Twitter and sings on the track “Minaj style” I’m hoping for more of these tunes in the future and we here at MistaJam.com wish her all the best!
Toodles…
Sian x
JME ft WILEY – SIDETRACKED **VIDEO**
The Boy Better Know CEO is back on his grind & seems to have hit on a new promotional concept. The video has just hit YouTube on the same day he has given the track to all the key DJ’s and the track is available for you to download almost exactly one month after it’s promo release. The track in question is a big one – called “Sidetracked” featuring Wiley.
MCLEAN – MY NAME **VIDEO**
Big money video boy – gwan McLean, getting his Mission Impossible on!
Really hope this finds a big audience. As a musician, McLean deserves as very long and fruitful career – great voice and great songwriting talent.
Flygerian Bigz – Flight Of The Navigator
Although I’m a self confessed Grime fanatic I have no shame in admitting my love for Rap, I grew up on American rap; Styles P, Rick Ross, Papoose and Jules Santana were my main love back when I was 16 and used to slick my hair to my forehead, wear baggy tracksuits and refer to everyone as ‘bruv’. (I kid you not).
In 2009 the only Rap music I came across that was UK and hot included about 80% of SN1’s rappers (Namely Fem Fel, Kyzer, Tiny Boost and Giggs), Kid Bliss’ Auto Pilot Mixtape and Skandals Hunger Pains in 2010. That’s not many, so Grime was my main UK love.
In Kid Bliss’ Auto Pilot Intro and track entitled Boarding Pass my attention was brought to Bigz and GFrsh, I immediately thought they we’re both brilliant and even thought Bigz sounded a bit like Rick Ross (which is a win as far as my eardrums are concerned). So when yesterday I saw Skepta Tweet (yes Twitter is my life, do not judge me!) tweet that Bigz was putting a Mixtape out I almost collapsed. Again – do not judge me, good music excites me!
I patiently waited. Patiently found the download link, and patiently waited for the files to download. (When I say ‘patiently’ what I really mean is that I paced round my room cursing my laptop for taking so long and wondering whether maybe I should chuck my Mac out the window and ‘Window’s 7″ it.) Anyway – it downloaded, I clicked, and a collective of twenty one, yes TWENTY ONE tracks popped up on my screen. At this point, I went to my iTunes and deleted Keisha Coles album (sorry Keisha but les-bi-honest your album was shit) in order to make space for the Flygerian that is…Bigz.
Best decision I’ve made in AGES!
This mixtape is [ofhadgtfhiudjaghfaihdhjdkcbjkfhjktgjkdfsjkghjkggrfjkhitjklrfij
aegrhkfjkgrgrhrtjjrygddfhtbfhijotfjklgsijrfhijtijthiogoehrre – FANTASTIC.
His flow is wpehrtgvoghudsghfoefrwhijotgiejrgjrgrfjdklrkl
His lyrical content is wp[sefhrgjfoiejgkrtiuywyet4irufoiduehwrfidhuergfihjferfidhrfe
His concepts are saohretyghopiuhrtfjkdewrgifdepofirghfdeiortudfoeirtugh
This is Rap at it’s bloody finest, I couldn’t have asked for more, and for an artist to give us 21 free tracks of pure quality with features from Wretch 32, Scorcher, & Wizzy Wow, Talay Riley, Badness, Professor Green, Baby Blue, Sway… Arghhhh it’s too much I can’t even go on.
If you didn’t get this Mixtape, then your life is a MESS right now. He’s comical, he’s confident he’s cocky – look I could go on about how great this Mixtape is forever but you really should have stopped reading this and be on 70% of the download from when you saw the first “[ofhadgtfhiudjaghfaihdhjdkcb”
My favourite track (she say’s like there’s not about 18 of them I’m listening to on repeat) is King Of Rock, now we know how much iHeart Rock so having a rock beat and successfully making it happen just makes me happy. It proves to me that he’s an artist. All of the features are hot, all of the beats are fire and I haven’t yet found a track that I don’t immediately like.
Bigz, whoever you are, where ever you are, you’ve done the UK proud!
DOWNLOAD THIS MASTERPIECE HERE!!!
*Disclaimer Note – Dear Mac laptop, I love you, I was just kidding about the Windows seven thing, please don’t leave me. I am NOT a PC. Love Sian xxx
ROX – MY BABY LEFT ME **VIDEO**
Rox is one of my tips to do good things in 2010 having had her last single “No Going Back” as my Jam Hot. Here’s the video to follow up single “My Baby Left Me”
There’s a Terror Danjah remix of this that I’m waiting on the label to send through that is pure fire too. Big up to Rox!
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS – SESSION #1
As a high profile DJ, I get asked a lot of questions and some questions get asked quite a lot. To save time, I thought I’d create a new strand on the blog where I would handle some of those MJ FAQs or MistaJam’s Frequently Asked Questions. Today, I tackle 2 big ones:
“How can I send you my music?”
Sending music to me is quite easy and even though I’ve had to put “don’t ask me for my email” on my Twitter blog because I get asked for my email pretty much 5 times a day from 5 different people; the best way to send music to me isn’t my email – it’s Soundcloud. Soundcloud allows you to share your music and also allows me to be able give you direct feedback when necessary without having it clog up my hard drive or me potentially losing your email in amongst the mountain I receive on a daily basis.
If you want to send me music for consideration for playing on my show, click here to get to my Soundcloud dropbox. If you are gonna send me something, please note, ahem:
IT NEEDS TO BE THE FINISHED ARTICLE
This means that it’s radio friendly with no swearing, no gunshot sound effects & the lyrical content is suitable for broadcast; it has to be mixed & mastered & ready for national airplay. Preferably with some sort of release plan. PLEASE don’t send me demos or bootlegs of you spitting over the latest “hot beat” recorded in your bedroom on a £2.50 mic from ASDA.
Demos are better sent to the BBC Introducing site although I’m sure they wouldn’t want your bootlegs either…
I cannot guarantee that I will be able to respond with feedback to all tracks sent but if I like something and think it is worthy of radio play, I will definitely be in touch. If you want to be old skool and send me a CD, or a T Shirt (XXL) or other promo material, the address you need is on my contacts page.
“Why do you put those annoying jingles all over the exclusives you play?”
This is another good question – and one that I see people on certain forums attempt to slew me for. I put jingles all over the exclusives I have to simply stop people from ripping the tracks. I broadcast on 2 radio stations that both stream high quality feeds online making it very easy for people to rip tracks off my show. If I didn’t put the jingles all over them, it would make it easy for other DJ’s to rip the tracks off and play them on their show and in the club and get away with it (which has happened even with my jingles on them); they would be all over YouTube, on people’s phones and on people’s iPods in CDQ NO TAGS without the artist being able to make money from the sales of that song. Take these for example, both played exclusively on my show on Saturday night, both ripped onto YouTube within literally minutes of playing:
(by the way, that A List “official” YouTube and Twitter is a fake – and bring back VNeckJumper on twitter!)
It’s also good from a branding point of view & the same thing as MTV having their logo on the videos they show – if you hear a rip, you find out about my show and will hopefully come and check it out and hear those exclusives first. If you like the song and want to download, wait til it’s released & get it legally. Simples!
That’s it for now. If you’ve got a MJ FAQ you want me to answer, put it in the form on the contact page with the subject “MJ FAQ”
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