[rating: 1]
For the last half decade the faithful have been wandering (and wondering), lost, through the sterile and largely funk-free desert which the realm of hip-hop has become, beset by the evil, ketamine-fuelled dubstep hordes and occasionally crossing paths with isolated and increasingly rare defenders of the truly phat flame. Sadly, there’s no end to that desert in sight yet and as we fight our way onwards, sonically parched and close to delirium, K-OS appears like an evil djinn and raises a question – to wit – is a track based around a sample of the theme to The OC, with a weedy beat, featuring Nelly Furtado, preferable to yet another ‘banging’ house-tune masquerading as hip-hop because hamster-cheeks West or Will I-fucking-Am bleat something inane over the top of it? The answer, correctly (and despite the single’s accompanying image), is, “I don’t care.” Video below links…
(Out 19 April on Last Gang Records)
K-OS – Myspace