METHOD MAN GIVEAWAY
matter presents another hip hop showcase on Wednesday 7th April when Wu Tang Clan’s METHOD MAN brings his live show to the venue.  One of hip hop’s most recognisable talents, Meth has maintained a prolific musical output as well as an acting career spanning 15 years.  Following up last year’s Blackout! 2 album with Redman, Method Man comes to London ahead of the release of forthcoming album The Wu-Massacre featuring Ghostface Killah and previous matter guest Raekwon.  He’ll be joined by Wu Tang associates DJ Mathematics, Streetlife and Cilvaringz.
I’ve had a conversation with my people at matter and we’ve sorted out the Jam Pack to giveaway – 2 Q-Jump guest list passes plus a few drinks tokens for you to be able to enjoy the concert in style. You’ll have to be over 18 and have to make your own way to and from matter but if you’re still interested, to be in with a chance, leave a comment on this blog and tell me in no less than 50 words why you deserve the Jam Pack.
If you wanna guarantee your tickets, here are the ticket details…
WEDNESDAY 07/04/10
METHOD MAN
matter: The O2, Peninsula Square, London SE10 0DY
7pm-11pm ÂŁ19.50 advance / ÂŁ25 on the door
Method Man, DJ Mathematics, Streetlife, Cilvaringz, Ledr P
Ticket and further information can be found on our website matterlondon.com
t: +44 (0)20 7549 6685 (fabric office) / +44 (0)20 7260 7431 (matter office)
BREAKAGE ALBUM LAUNCH GIVEAWAY
This Friday, one of the best clubs in the world plays host to not only Chibuku’s 10th Birthday but also (and more importantly for me) the launch party for Breakage’s album “Foundation” that I personally have been waiting for, salivating like a hungry labrador awaiting his breakfast! Big up to him, Shy & the DSB family who invited me to play at the event – I’m part of a HUGE line up:
If you want to guarantee your entry, you can buy your tickets here however I have got some fancy shmancy guestlist action for you baddaman/baddagyal blog readers. Not only do you get into the club for free but you also get to join the guest list queue rather than the “runs from Farringdon tube to the front door” queue. To enter, simply comment on this blog post with why you think you deserve the guest list places. I’ll judge the best reasons and email the winner.
You have until noon this Thursday 11th March to get involved. Don’t forget to put your real email address when filling in the comments box or I won’t be able to contact you to tell you if you win…!!
SUGABABES COMPETITION
Drop what you’re doing. Quickly. We’ve got a lastminute.com competition for you.
Are you a Sugababes fan?
Do you want to see them tomorrow night… live?
Well…
Go to the “contact” form on mistajam.com with the answer to the below question for a chance to win entry to the the Sugababes Sweet 7 Official Matinee Album Launch Party tomorrow at The Supper Club, London.
The Matinee Album Launch Party will include performances from the Sugababes, signed posters and complimentary soft drink. (Alcohol is not permitted on the night)
Question: Name the Sugababes’ first single release from their album (Sweet 7)?
I’ll be picking one person at random to win entry tomorrow night with two of their mates. Go to the “contact” form on this website now now now and fill in the subject line with “Launch Party Comp”. Include your answer in the “message” box and I’ll hit you back IF you’ve won =)
Please do not enter if you know you are:
A) Under 18.
B) Unable to make it to London tomorrow.
What are you waiting for? Competition closes at 6pm today. GO GO GO!!!!
P.s I’m so nice to y’all in’t I…. *sigh*.
Toodles.
Sian xxx
*The small print that everyone misses *evil laugh* Entrants will be added to the Sugababes mailing list for future events.
SUSHI RIDDIM
On Wednesday night my Radio 1Xtra show came live from the newly acquired studio of Redlight & Toddla T in West London for future music week of Radio 1Xtra’s Homegrown Month. Setting the badman producers a challenge of creating a track from scratch to completion in 3 hours wasn’t enough. I got samples from some of my fellow Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra colleagues that they had to incorporate into the track (big up to Mary Anne Hobbs for the idea!) including the sound of Annie Mac mimicking Shakira’s She Wolf howl, Donae’o shouting ‘SUSHI’ and Huw Stephens bellowing “pancake” in welsh. To make it even more complex, we got some top flight vocalists to come and sid dung toppa di riddim, sid dung untoppadi vershan: J2K, Roses Gabor, Lady Chann & Jammer. Here’s the highlights from the ‘making of’ the track:
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The resulting track, the ‘SUSHI RIDDIM’ is available for you to download for free & keep forever. Marvel at what can happen when you take a whole load of talent, 3 hours and a recording studio with paint barely dry on the walls.
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IN NEW MUSIC WE TRUST LIVE
You know this is going to be amazing! Me on the decks and a few of my friends performing live with the best live band in the business, Dynamix. Make sure you get to Newcastle Uni Student Union Box office to grab your free tickets from 7pm on 20th Feb.
FEB FREENESS!
Guess what? I’ve managed to sort some freeness for you blog ravers.
I’ve been hearing a lot about Manny’s finest Dubstep night from fellow DJ friends who have played there & I’m really looking forward to playing a full Dubstep only set on Thursday 4th Feb at the No.1 Club. It will also mark my first Manchester gig in a very long time – my Speakerbox tour date at Pure in May was the last time I was in the city. The Murkage Cartel have kindly given us a pair of guest list places for the night for me to give away here too…
To be in with a chance, click the contacts page link above and fill in the contact form with “Manchester Comp” in the subject line BEFORE 3pm on 4th Feb and simply tell me why you think I should give you the guestlist!
The mighty RAM Records are celebrating their 1 year anniversary of holding big roadblock parties at London’s Matter club and as you’d expect, the line up is ridonkulously hench and in their madness, they’ve booked me to headline Room 2! All the details are on the flyer above – it will be my second set ever at Matter and I’m expecting to go in hard so if you want to be part of it, tickets are on sale here. However, I have 1 pair of guestlist entry passes to give away here…
To be in with a chance, click the contacts page link above and fill in the contact form with “Matter Comp” in the subject line BEFORE 3PM on 5th Feb 2010 and simply tell me why you think I should let you have the 2 guestlist slots in 20 words or less!
You’ll need to make your own way to & from the gigs and YOU HAVE TO BE OVER 18!!
Good luck!
MASH SESSIONS WITH ME!
To celebrate the launch of the UK’s leading streetwear clothing shop Mash Clothing’s new website, I’m gonna be doing a VERY RARE in-store set at the flagship store:
This is gonna serve as a nice warm up for my set at RaMatter’s 1st Birthday at Matter later that night. I just need to make sure I accidentally leave my wallet at home or I’ll end up having to get another mortgage to pay for all the new garments I’ll purchase…!!
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…
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
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
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