Tag: Motif records
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Perfecto – Touched Your Girl
Filtered synth pads and muffled percussion set the mood for Perfecto’s dark-humoured narrative about being disliked for touching someone’s girl. He skillfully weaves a tale of worldly desires, adding detailed bits of lust, (dis)trust, and insecurity as he glides along. In Perfecto’s case, size does matter; size goes beyond the confines of lustful tales. Size…
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Tumi Molekane – Happy Birthday
Those of us who exist inside the matrix of unremitting on-line presence and social network interaction would’ve undoubtedly bore witness – wittingly or otherwise – to a week-long spectacle in which 140-character and longer analyses of Kendrick Lamar’s verse on Big Sean’s “Control” trended among hip hop heads and hangers-on. I found this critique by Spin Mag…
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Reason – No Sleep (Remix)
On the 8th of June, 2013, rap supremo Reason stepped in front of a fully-packed hall at Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto for his Redubull Beat Battle set. Backed by his trustworthy assemblage of DJ ID on decks and forward-thinking producer 37MPH on the MPC, he went through songs with the angst of the…