Fusing hook-laden rhythms with biting social commentary, the track features the superstar talents of Rebel ACA, Lil’ Rossco, Spragga Benz and Doc Brown. 

Never met another like me? 

You probably haven't. 

But maybe someone else has...

Mr Simplicity - REBEL ACA, SPRAGGA BENZ, DOC BROWN, LIL' ROSSCO & FRENCH MONKEY

BUTTERCUTS RECORDS PRESENT AFRICAN JAMES BOND
BY REBEL ACA & FRENCHMONKEY WRENCH
https://www.facebook.com/rebelandfrench/

Release date 24/11/2017 The first single from the forthcoming album “Sunday’s Cool” - Coming March 2018

A bizarre and beautiful look at life in London from the eyes of an Englishman and ears of a Frenchman. 
The delectable pairing of French deep vintage sound with the English articulation of the Rebel - something you definitely would not have heard before.  

“they sound like The Streets high on absinthe stomping around the back alleys of Paris” 
“Rebel ACA is definitely an example of the untapped awesomeness on the fringe of British Hip-Hop, and he’s gearing up to release alongside a man named French Monkey Wrench (which means it’s gotta be dope with that kind of name)” -Contentdope.com

SUNDAY'S COOL

AFRICAN JAMES BOND

African James Bond

The 12 steps…"of your life" - you grow up, you join a tribe (which you follow blindly), you try to get a career, you try to get a women, you complain and are disappointed about all of these things - none of them living up your expectation…because the grass is always greener over there… so you get frustrated and upset and get high and run away with drugs and booze. 
 
And in this process- you disrespect and damaged where you live, yourself, your body, your life…. Lost, Angry and Addicted with a bad liver and a bad heart and a victim to your own existence. 
 
Morale of the story :- sometimes maybe the grass is greener - and sometimes you should try to something about it. But all of the time - make the very best of what you have, and where you are.

12 Steps

John Wayne
Lyrics written by David Rogers & Rebel ACA
Music by French Monkey and Rebel ACA

About what it is to be a modern man in the modern world. 

The name John Wayne – a name most young people may not even know – is harking back to a simpler time and what a man was then. When men were tough not due to their gym muscles, but tough because of their mental strength and independence. 

About the guy in the street looking tough and cool, is on his own..but utterly dependant on his phone...  What would John Wayne think...

Sunday's Cool

1 John Wayne

Written about a girl who Rebel hang out with who reminded him of himself, yet he couldn't understand at the same time. The song effectively examines the relationship between Women and Men, how we are similar, and see each other's strength and weaknesses - yet we don't really understand each other. Furthermore that we both have some of each other inside inside each of us. None of us are 100% man, or 100% women. We are a blend of them both. and if you say you're a man, does that mean that your female side is a ghost within.

MARBLE

Marble

The song was written by Zoom during lockdown – with Rebel ACA and French on opposites of London and Ray Rogers in Australia.
The track chorus wonders “to never touch again, to never be close and never be with our friends”
While Rebel comes in hard with a range of references
“isolation got you popping pills, hoping to stay still, delaying bills, exercising away your will”
While
“Lives sliced between bright lights, And dark thoughts
How do you separate work and play divided cardboard”

Debating Zoom and working from home
“more efficient, more productive? More deficient, more destructive” 
And suggests that he has realised that what he thought inspired him, film, music, art – is not. And that without experiencing interaction of real humans his brain is running out of “mental food”
“The trouble with zoom,  there’s no sentimental clues,no mental food, it’s mental dude 
And them “Suddenly, Bing bang boom, You back in your bedroom”

Featuring a voice note sent on whatsapp by fellow Buttercuts artists SONI about Zoom being a “trap” and ended with a killer guitar solo by long time Buttercuts associate Ben Laidlow. 

Why do you care?
Why should you care?

Well don’t. 
Don’t listen
Don’t care 
Don’t share
Just stare
In a world of bullshit
Do press releases actually matter?

Buttercuts records 
In a world of bullshit. Music is all that matters.

Social Distancing

Following working on the Billboard #1 success that was the Chilagon album, with Spragga Benz, Rebel ACA met iStand; Benz’s elder and best friend in the U.K..They had a musical synergy too alluring to go overlooked, and each brought close friends Danny and French to collaborate on the journey.A refreshing musical team that isn’t afraid to live, breathe and bleed. As catchers of wisdom and sculptures of spirit, the guys’ smooth flow and originality naturally unfolds and beckons attention, finding the place where their individual talents meet and meld and shine.

Modulation Featuring Istand & Danny Sprang

Celebrating the end of 2020 - the tracks tells you to dance without fear of Covid, News, Bullshit life, and says thanks to all that have got you through

Dance without fear (featuring Danny Sprang, iSTAND)

So here Buttercuts proudly presents a bizarre and beautiful look at life in London from the eyes of an Englishman and ears of a Frenchman.

Rebel ACA and French met nearly 15 years ago, as one managed, and the other produced a funk reggae band. And ever since - their completely opposite nature in almost every way - has kept them attracted, like a nut and ratchet.

They’re real life childhood nicknames happen to be The Bear, and The Wolf. No-one knows or tends to question why, as it would make sense if you met them - but yeah. We don't know which one is which either. 

Rebel ACA (The ACA stands for - Anti-clockwise Attitude… ) when in full (arm) swing - can break anything, and French meanwhile is an absolutely inspired fixer - sometimes with his monkey wrench.

French who sleeps under a harpsichord in his tiny flat with him and his daughter, and the Rebel who never wants to go to sleep - like a young petulant child.

And it would seem that they need each other - as apart from the fact you wouldn’t have this album - the Rebel would have no-one to fix his shit. And French would have not enough to do and would start fixing what wasn’t broke. And we all know how that’s not supposed to be a good idea at all.

Rebel ACA & French Monkey Wrench

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