Charlie Sloth's Fire in the Booth series

[Piff Tannen]

UK PFers, are you guys familiar with these?

I came across them recently and I think they are cool. Basically like any other 'drop bars' when you go to a radio show format, but aside from the couple i found, I dont know which ones are worth checking because theres so fucking many.

my two favorites though are from potter payper and nines. Stormzy's is supposed to drop this weekend i hear, which is tight cus he killed the 2014 fire in the booth cypher. i kinda like their large cypher format better than the BET cyphers


1. potter payper


2. nines


3. joey badass and kirk knight


2014 FITB Cypher (45 minutes)

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Fire In The Booth occasionally results in something worth checking but Charlie Sloth is such an unbearable cunt I generally try and avoid it.

[Piff Tannen]

yeah he seems like a goofy rap cartoon character type dj. british dj khaled

i like the westwood sessions too, do him and westwood compete alot in terms of programming?

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yeah he seems like a goofy rap cartoon character type dj. british dj khaled

i like the westwood sessions too, do him and westwood compete alot in terms of programming?

Up until recently they were both on 1Xtra so not really. Possibly a bit more so now that Westwood is over at Capital. I thought 1Xtra would push DJ Semtex as Westwood's replacement but Sloth seems to be getting more attention. He does give some lesser known rappers a chance on his shows (possibly because he's a failed rapper himself) which you can't knock him for I guess.

[Piff Tannen]

ah thats interesting. i didnt know any of that so thanks for filling me in

do you know much or have an opinion on potter payper, stormzy or nines? or suggestions on other cats to check for out there?

ive been seeing a lot of random rappers on the fire in the booth series, all the new ones have between a few hundred and a few thousand views. the ones with a shit ton of views like blizzard, nines, DVS, etc are pretty few and far between.

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not gonna lie, I hadn't heard of Potter Payper, Stormzy or Nines until this post. Kind of stopped checking for newer UK rappers around 2005 as they were either on the grime tip (and so mostly terrible) or still rehashing the boom bap backpack thing. High Focus Records seems to be the ones consistently doing it at the moment - search Fliptrix, Verb T, Leafdog and Dirty Dike and you might find something you like.

Here's a few UK freestyle things that come to mind. Nothing mad recent though.

The Rapper Tag series has some good vids and Fallacy is pretty much the best rapper to have come out of the UK imo. He's a monster on this one. Shame he doesn't really make Hip Hop anymore.


Also...

[sleazy_j]

Kind of stopped checking for newer UK rappers around 2005 as they were either on the grime tip (and so mostly terrible) or still rehashing the boom bap backpack thing.

what was the other option you were looking for?


i saw some documentary on rappers in England done by Charlie Sloth a few years ago. Basically, every small town he went to had some amateur rappers trying to make it, similar to how it is in the US currently.

[Piff Tannen]

any idea if thats the doc? im gonna check all this shit out tonight

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Kind of stopped checking for newer UK rappers around 2005 as they were either on the grime tip (and so mostly terrible) or still rehashing the boom bap backpack thing.

what was the other option you were looking for?

Kind of a middle ground between the two really. I liked a lot of the reggae influenced stuff people like Rodney P and Klashnekoff were doing. There was a lot of good stuff coming out around 2000-2004 (backpack and otherwise) and then it kind of lost momentum and grime took over for a while.

[Mindbender Futurama]

that guy Akala did one of the best performances I've ever heard in my life on his 'Fire in the Booth'. Some eternal liberated slave wisdom dropped

like Top 10 / / verses of all-time. OF ALL-TIME!



"remedy the pedigree: the jeopardy, your mind/ when the world is this crazy lethargy's a crime"

big up how these focus on LYRICS... that's kind of getting forgotten these days

[slack]

The Fekky one is the best imo

[LONDON]

Nines got talent, he's big on the roads right now, hes from my borough. potter's big, so is fekky, stormzy's making a lot of noise aswell.

I dont know if your into trap rappers, but check for artists like blade brown, youngs teflon, giggs & his sn1 click, dvs, k koke & he's usg crew(there from my borough aswell, ha ha, seriously though, koke used to be signed to roc nation),margs, joe black, benny banks, colours, gts mob(there from my bits, killi, ha ha, couldnt help it)

[LONDON]

young spray's repping too

[spiralg]

My favourite fire in the booth

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My favourite fire in the booth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_veQXwufDA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

i had a feeling it would be Mic Righteous. And not a good feeling either.