Thursday 14 May 2009

Inja feat. Fallacy & Skinnyman - 'Hat Low'



It appears that Inja's switched up his sound since the days of hosting Rawganics in Cambridge. This is very much on a Grime-tip but I really like this track. It's not surprising to me that the "UK Hip Hop" scene is moving in this direction. The Grime guys have totally blown the old skool era out of the water and surpassed anything they've done prior in terms of raising the levels of exposure and the 0's on the end of the bank balance. This can be accounted for in that the majority of the Grime scene have developed and grown throughout the rise of the Information Age. Thus they have really utilized their fan base online. The post-modern sound of minimal electronic harshness is a product in every way of this new futuristic age, and as a result tends to be driven by the online demographic.

Anyway back to the track. Inja hooks up with two absolute stalwarts of UK rap in Fallacy and Skinnyman. Fallacy alongside Fusion created one of the truest club bangers the UKHH scene has ever produced, and his flow has always been a little on the Garage grime side of things. With Skinny you've got one of the forefathers, a true Don on the mic who has seriously put in the grind over the years and created one of my favorite Rap albums of all time. That includes our American brother's across the pond. Skinny has always had the ability to switch up the speed and rap his heart out.

I first heard this track on DJ MK's 'London Go Hard' mixtape in February and the video is dope. I really like the crazy CCTV monster cam, but what does let this down is the girls dancing. I just don't see the need for them to be in there.

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