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

Posted by Sian at 2:49 pm on January 26th, 2010

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Tags: Bigz, Flight Of The Navigator, Flygerian, Kid Bliss, Rap, Twitter.

SWAY – MERCEDES BENZ (OFFICIAL ONLINE PROMO)

A couple of weeks ago I had the world premiere of Sway’s brand new track ‘Mercedes Benz’ on Radio 1 & 1Xtra when I was covering for Trevor Nelson. This week, the record is my Jam Hot record of the week and Sway has put together an online promo video for the record:

Shouts to Sway & the whole team. Zane Lowe put it so eloquently…it’s a “heatrock” no doubt. Sway will be my special guest on my 1Xtra show tomorrow night. Tweet me if you have any questions for him.

Posted by Jam at 10:26 pm on June 24th, 2009

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Categories: Music, Must Watch, New Music, Video.
Tags: 45 king, b boy, biz markie, break dance, dance, diversity, dj kool, doug e fresh, flawless, Funky, Hip Hop, kon live, konvict, let me clear my throat, mercedes benz, MistaJam, Rap, Skank, sway, talent, Twitter, UK, Zane Lowe.

SOLDIERS AND TOAST? THE EXPLANATION!

First off, thank you to everyone who’s watched and commented on the ‘Egg Soldiers Beans & Toast’ parody video. Due to overwhelming demand, we’re looking into getting it available as a free download from the Radio 1 website – or a charity download for Comic Relief.

Thanks to those people who have noticed I’ve lost weight too – working hard at it at the moment. I’ve already lost a fair amount (and brought my BMI down significantly) but I’m still nowhere near my target weight for my wedding this summer. If you’re overweight too, watch out for the ‘Wedding Body Plan’ workout DVD with me in 2011!

The reason for this post is to answer all those critics who seem to have a problem with the chorus mentioning two types of toasted bread – one simply being toasted bread cut into strips. To answer your comments:

- Yes, I know that soldiers are made out of bread.
- Soldiers sounds very similar to shoulders which is why we used it.
- No, bacon or sausage wouldn’t have worked better there.
- If you toast 2 pieces of bread, you would simply cut one up into soldiers to dip into your egg yolk and the other would remain intact to hold your beans on top.
- Yes, you’re reading far too much into it – IT’S A PARODY!

Posted by Jam at 12:36 pm on February 26th, 2009

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BIGGIE > 2PAC

I decided to clarify my stance on the debate that’s been raging in HipHop for the past decade on my Twitter today (sidebar – I was on Twitter when it was a BETA so don’t ramp – yes, I am a geek) and it seems that the great and the good who are my Twitter friends seem to agree with me:

Biggie is and was better than 2Pac.