More grime nonsense
To the three people on this board who care: "Run the Road: Volume 2" might as well be a xerox of the first one. It's fucked up, while the bigger names (Kano, Roll Deep, The Streets) are making headways overseas with really shitty "grime-y" slow jam ballads, the underground just seems to crank out the same bizzare-o-two-step-with-icy-80's-keyboards-and-ringtone beats by the truckload. Unmistakable from virtually every other white label grime tune (which, once again, this comp collects the finest examples). They even rip themselves off. For example, I challenge anyone to differentiate between No Lay's "Unorthodox Daughter" and her "Unorthodox Chick." So what's the problem with volume 2? Not a goddamn thing. Still the strangest and most exciting music on the planet. Probably my biggest complaint is that it's mising nearly all the stars. The fact that the last disc had a star-in-the-making 6 tracks with Kano and Wiley popped in 4 tracks (and everybody copied his music anyway), it felt like some kind of early "family affair" a la the early Wu-Tang joints. Still: recommended, but y'all knew I'd say that.