Taken from Rusted/Thickets.
Forthcoming on 7" & digital.
Out 11th May 2015.
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/boomanxjehst

As premiered on Clash Music: http://www.clashmusic.com/news/premiere-bambooman-ft-jehst-rusted


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Bambooman - Rusted Ft. Jehst

Ocean Floors.

Speech Debelle : Blaze Up A Fire (featuring Roots Manuva and Realism)

 I wrote this track months ago for my second album, and it wasn’t due for release until next year. But after the events of this week I want to give it away right now. I feel it could give insight into the hearts and minds of some of the people that have taken part in, not only the peaceful marches for Mark Duggan in Tottenham and the Smiley Culture march for justice, but also I believe it speaks of the frustration of many young people who took part in the rioting and the consequent looting over London and areas of the UK. I am not attempting to condone, I’m attempting to be a voice of understanding.

 It’s without doubt that what these young people have been doing is destructive and shameful. Their greed for material things and appetite for destruction is unhealthy and selfish. It is not how we should live as a society. BUT I have to say destruction has become a form of communication and expression for so many young people. 

 These young people are not aliens dropped down from outer space on Friday night, they are our children. They go to our schools and are taught the curriculum our government has set out for them. They watch the films we write direct and produce and star in. They fantasize about computer games we imagine and sell them. They eat the food we produce packed with e numbers and feed them. We cannot say there is something wrong with them without acknowledging there must be something wrong with us as a society.

 They are a big part of our future and we contribute to the creation of our futures. They are a continuum of what has come before them.

 In the same way a child takes in the feeling of comfort from their parents about the environment they’re born into, they take on the fear and frustration of the environment they are born into. You cant have a conversation with an average person these days without them complaining about banking debt and how it affects them, the university fees, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the role our government has played, the phone hacking and media attack on privacy, the rise of the cost of living and cuts in services and education because of the greed of the privileged minority.

 They hear these cries from the adults of this society and they have it right there in front of them on their TVs saying “this generation of young people have less opportunity then the generation before them.” They have been fed these things but cannot express these feelings of frustration in a mature way because again, their form of expression has become destruction and their environment provides them the fuel. This does not mean these frustrations are not real.

 People have asked why they are destroying buildings and property from their own communities but they look at them as just buildings that do not belong to them, and never will.  Only people who cannot envision a positive future will take part in the destruction of their own community and if we acknowledge that, then we to ask the question why somebody so young feels they have so little to look forward to? I cannot allow myself to de-humanize these kids and see them as my enemy. 

Speech Debelle 9 August 2011 

BLAZE UP A FIRE by Speech Debelle (featuring Roots Manuva and Realism)

a piece of a larger painting.
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Prod. by Cauzndefx

Lyrics:
Congratulatory horror stories before the recording 
Outside every morning but for him it was boring so it was video games and porn videos, no he wasn't 18 but damned he learned women there's no debating the great thing was 
It sorta felt like a buzz
It sorta felt like a lie
I swore I felt it was love
But that was lust at the core 
The gold turned into dust 
the devil gave him some silver but in the form of a tongue
Everywhere that he was or wasn't there's no discussion you prolly saw in his eyes there's wasn't hope for him loving
Smiles shattered around him he sorta fell into cussing
He couldn't find his happiness so he was searching for nothing
And the void he created made from forms he came up with
hit ghost if he got close yeah he formula-1'ed it
I admit it
Yeah
It's sorta redundant
The stench from his lies had made his porcelain pungent
And now

He kinda sits all alone in a room in a mood with his tape on replay
Thinking bout the good times, thinking bout the bad ones
Thinking bout the good girls, thinking bout the last one 

She wasn't weak
Saw her every week at her ace crib talking bout his dreams in the basement face it
Shawty wasn't playing but the smile that she had was enough to keep him staying
The type a girl to hit the studio
Never was a groupie though
Type to say my style's lame but she wore my hoodie though
Type to be the main girl in a music video 
or at least the topic
Fuck it Imma drop it we chillin in the porch it was raining I was claiming that Cali was the move 
But she didn't wanna move
So we kept it cool and I let my feelings bounce
smoking on an ounce now I'm chillin on the bus headed west with my hand on my chest got a text said she broke up with her ex
my mind's so gone I might have to take a breath and every time she visited I think I needed rest
Roommates and single but we fuckin like its marriage
Arguments for breakfast with a side of baby carrots
Screaming out our lungs bet the neighbors couldn't manage
Started staring at my plane ticket home like a carriage 
And now

He kinda sits all alone in a room in a mood with his tape on replay
Thinking bout the good times thinking bout the bad ones
Thinking bout the good girls thinking bout the last one
-----
2016

Flightless Birds

produced & mixed by OTG
vocals By @jeshi-1
guitar By @qtla
artwork modeled by @iamddb.

Birkbeck ft. Jeshi

shoutout to @fadermedia for the premiere! view it here: http://www.thefader.com/2016/09/06/angelo-mota-michael-christmas-all-over-you

twitter/iG: @motaraps

thank you @michaelchristmas !!!
additional production by the oranges.
art direction by corri spencer.
h.o.d coming soon.

All Over You (feat. Michael Christmas) [prod. Angelo Mota]

Taken from the Roots Manuva single 'Banana Skank' 

Released January 21st on Big Dada

Buy 'Banana Skank' on yellow 12" vinyl housed in a screenprinted transparent plastic sleeve. 

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