Friend & Family SPECIAL!!! Critical MC - SE rapper reppin!!

This is our boy, Critical, our breddabin in Sweden catching some big flows with this sick beat...Fuck yes...Peep the QE:SE vid for more Critical!

Friends & Family - Part 2 - Purple Turtle Beads

 

Easy up - a slightly impromptu blog entry, considering I haven't uploaded the Behind-the-Scenes stuff yet, but we couldn't really pass this one up! We went up to Leicester last week for the mighty Jamfest 2010 underground music festival. While we were there, we found a proper top-shelf material stand selling these wicked hama-bead neck-pieces and jewellery - Purple Turtle Beads be its name!. 

QE:ES - Sun, Sand, Sea, such a pain in the arse - PART 1 - The intro

I should have been writing this blog entry last Wednesday - Friday at the latest. Given that it is now the preceeding Friday, over a week and a half after the Queens English crew was supposed to be back from Spain, might give a hint to the mindnumbing terror that we have experienced at the hands of the British institution that is Easy Jet, the Spainish Social Workers Party, a forgetful blonde, a dumbass turk and a small brown man with an ass that just won't stop (me).

Our Mates - Part 1 - Dark Sky / Boogaloo Crew

This is an aspect of the blog that I've wanted to write about for fucking ages. We've been around for a fair while, and we've got about a fair ol' bit. In the course of doing so, we've had our fair share of crackheads, gammon-handed fools and ketamine freaks. And that's just our mate Tom.


But our travels, trials and tribulations have brought us into contact with some excessively brilliant and talented people, who've influenced us no end and more importantly, provide proper joke of a Friday night down the Grand Union. The first, and most fabulous of these are the fucking fantastic Dark Sky crew, also known in an alternative incarnation as the Boogaloo Crew.

Minor Horror Countdown...

The above picture was me - when I realised we have under a month and a half until our party for New Balance. And week after next we've got the video shoot in Alicante. Yes. Indeed. Stress times. But it's funny how the more stressed I get about things, the more detached I become from the problem and indeed reality. Hence, my decision to blog - the 21st Century equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns.

Launch tings!

The following that your are about to read is what happens when no-one can be bothered to actually write a proper blog entry about something reasonably interesting, and instead think publishing group emails in the style of David Thorne is something that might be reasonably interesting. Shit...here's the launch stuff...

We Business!!

Ooooh! Lookee that! Business cards for the QE, that inadvertantly make it look like I'm a legitimate member of industry. Slick'n'slide. As Rhymes pointed out, this saves faffing about for a pen and paper or phone at the end of a gig, spot or one of those club nights where you've met the producer for the Chai Whallas tent. I highly recommend it, as having a piece of card with your name on makes you feel big and important. Like the misplaced passion of Geoffery Sinclair. Plus it makes excellent quality roach material.

Shwinn

Finely Balanced Latino Magic...

I enjoy nicking other people's pictures. However, not as much as I enjoy 'working' with Queens English. They are a bunch of layabout fuckers, but every so often, they come out with a gem. This is one of them. We've finally got a nice clean version recorded, and a proper title for it. Ladies & Germs, this is 'New Balance'.

New Balance (rough mix) by Queens English

Your new headsway anthem - Our Love!!!

Ahhh, nothing more evocative than an Irish landscape to lull you into a false sense of security. Ladies and gentlemen, its been in the soundbank for a while, sat on by the SherlQck and Something Else, until like Grolsch it was ready - and here, finally, is the Demo Edit of 'Our Love', sampling 70's folk crew, Tir Na Nog - fuck yea, Queens English breaks boundaries...

Listen and learn bitches, the winter is bleak and the Morris Man will fuck up your polo... 


Our Love (rough mix) by Queens English

Sooooooo then...

It's been a hectic 7 days in the Rhymes calendar and now with the weekend well and truly out of the way let the next 7 begin!

Living in CON/DEM Nation, Mans CON/DEM Nation...etc

It's been an emotional week. Not least becuase SherlQck and I almost came to blows over the concept of British democracy, and the structure of Western Governance. Yeah, we're fucking Hip Hop. Orifice Volgatron once said QE needs, "a little less backpack, a little more swagger." Well, we've ditched the backpack, but LQcks still likes his designer Jaeger man-bag, and Something Else and myself do enjoy the Eggs Atlantic served up by the Petite Parisién on the corner of Camberwell Grove. I toyed with whether to write another comedy, but to be honest I'm in the mood for an honest roundup of the week.

Rap Exploitated Sessionism - Pikey & Rhymes Hit Ipswich

Having missed my weekly burnout capoiera training session, one passing me in the street could mistake me for a largered up, shit monkey, looking for a fight. They would not be too far wrong. However, today I am not so angry, as last night I witnessed a great many things that made me happy to be ME. And involved in the UK Hip Hop scene.

So yesterday, myself, Rhymes and Pikey Esquire, headed to the home county city of Ipswich. On entering the city limits, one might be mistaken for thinking that this is just another English Upper-middle class hick-town with nowt that much going on, except the odd lynching of Tamil immigrants and some 'oik' deigning to vote anything except Tory. And for the most part, you'd be right.

Beat this Meet

Once in a while, a club night comes along and makes you think, "Jesus shitting christ, that was fucking awesome." I remember that feeling the first time I went to Movement, the first time I went to Procession Sessions (Birmingham, for thems who don't know!), the first time I went to Troublevision. And kick me in the appendix, if I didn't feel it at Beat Redemption, Bournemouth's hot-to-mother-fuxxin-trot Dub'n'Drums'n'Bass earth smasher...

STUDIO SESSIONS - 30/4/10

So...what started off as baby steps into pop music...yes POP music... ended up with me and Sherlock writing a piss take track – ‘The Tommy Robinson Song’ complete with impressions, voice overs and general QE stupidity. Yes much more our cup of tea!

Haha it was fun and I'm sure it will get a few laughs when we play it at the roadshow....

Last night also saw the almost complete NEW TRACK!!!! finally take shape.... One on One is the working title and people better ready for this! Full of all the usual daftness, we got the lyrics written and ready to rock, the beats are banging and ready to bounce... in fact it’s finished but for the recording and it’s gonna be BIIIGGG!!!

A little soundclip’s on the way...be ready for the drop...

Check out my taster...haha...

One on one blogpost by LeonRhymes

- Leon Rhymes aka Whizkid Rapper

When Two Tribes...

We won AWARD

Yes - we are literally made of WIN. Queens English dun won the Peoples Music Award t'other week. I haven't quite been able to stop going on about it. I mean, England still goes on about winning World War II and that was sodding 60 years ago, plus i know mans dat rob a vet'ran ennnnit...

No, seriously, I in no way advocate punching and robbing folks who fought for their country...

VIDEO UPLOAD

Just dig'ed (how do you spell that?) in the video from the Water Rats gig... maaaan that's fun. Cant wait to do it again.
Got some sicko shots from it and some picture moments for the music and love albums :-) especially for sherlock.

Now need to edit the shizzle... Will get some stuff online soon so watch out. Well you dont really have to watch out until we say its up but you get the idea.

Turn those croooons upside dooooon!

- Rhymes