Irish Battle Rap Round-Up (#1 of 1)

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. With half the internet blacked out – the interesting parts at least – to protest SOPA, and Twitter clogged up with people making crap jokes about Wikipedia being offline, I was supposed to get a lot of work done yesterday. Instead, I spent half the day searching out battle rap videos on Youtube and the rest watching that mad cunt Pepe do his damndest to chop down Messi in his prime.

 

Just about every night these days, I seem to get sucked into a kind of Youtube Roulette, where watching one video leads me to a dozen more via the related videos list, and I’ve been returning to the above track more and more the past week or so. ‘I’m Back’ features Redzer and Terawrizt of Dublin crew Class A’z and, though it’s a pretty straightforward track with ordinary enough self-congratulating lyrics, the muted guitar and choral sample are the perfect backdrop for some really precise rhymes delivered at breakneck speed.