Stealf Feat Nu Jerzey Devil ‘Rain Bring Pain’ (De Facto Records) Review

Stealf Feat Nu Jerzey Devil ‘Rain Bring Pain’ (De Facto Records) Review

After producing tracks for a number of UK artists, Stealf ‘The Producer’ unleashes the first track from his forthcoming debut album. Here he provides an anthemic beat for Blackwall Street producer/DJ/rapper Nu Jerzey Devil. The beat is really well produced and helps the crossover potential of this song. I like this track and I’m very intrigued to hear what the rest of the album will be like. ‘I Am Stealf’ which features the likes of Jadakiss, Ruste Juxx, Joell Ortiz and Wordsmith and a string of superb UK emcee’s including Konny Kon, Deeze, Dap-C and Wolftown Recordings artist LATE. Stealf has already proved he is a producer making moves but this single is his best work to date.

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'With You' ft. Mutya Buena - Ashley Walters (single review)

Ashley Walters featuring Mutya Buena? I’m not gonna like that am I?! Well actually, I was pleasantly surprised. Whilst I wouldn’t consider myself a fan of either artists, I approached this with nigh on a closed mind and it managed to prise the gates to my psyche open enough to squeeze its way in.

It’s Swindle’s production that really does it for me here – the piano-led, modern gentle funk flavoured backing drew me in. Ashley is a skilled writer and his delivery is extremely on point.

Beyond the typical boy/girl playoff this actually has a bearable sentiment – one usually sickeningly sweetened by everyday popsters (like Sugababes!). Ashley has a mature and positive outlook on relationships and fatherhood and on a serious note; it’s one that many people need to hear.

‘With You’ is released on the 18th Januray on download and it’s CD release date is the 25th. ‘With You’ is taken from ‘The Album’ which is due for release on February 23rd on Abstract Urban.

'Club Freaks Anthem' - The Buizniez (single review)

‘Club Freaks Anthem (Part One)’, just from the title, immediately sounds like something I am not going to like. And subject-wise I don’t. Rapper Artcha James competently churns out clichés and provides one of the least unimaginative choruses imaginable.

The production however is something else. A buzz bass line soon accommodates a hypnotic funk guitar loop a la Destiny Child’s ‘Bootylicious’ or Survivor’s ‘Eye of the Tiger’. Native rhythms are treated with reverb and a vaguely grimy drum beat keeps step throughout. Every now and then a synth adds a few stabs and the track breaks down funkily in its final throes to provide a great finale.

To be honest, I’d like to hear this track revoxed by some imaginative souls who might do some justice to the interesting production. The Buizniez (pronounced ‘business’) release ‘Club Freaks Anthem Part 1’ featuring Artcha on February 9th 2009.

'Out Of The Ghetto' - Sef (single review)

Yawn. ‘Out Of The Ghetto’: better than counting sheep. More chuffin’ auto-tune, more oozey R’n’B; hard title, soft track in reality.

Yeah, OK, Sef has a good voice - I can’t sing like that but so many millions of other Usher wannabes can. Seriously, haven’t people heard enough of this? At least people like Usher have the talent/producers/marketing budget to really do something different.

Sef’s vocals may come in useful, say, on a hook, but a whole track of noodling, meandering vocals just doesn’t ring my bell. Well, it rings bells, as I mentioned above. Some girls will probably like it but it falls far from the mark when falling on my ears; I’m just nowhere near his target audience.

The remix features Meleka and Swiss and contains a dialogue of sorts between male and female. Swiss’s rap are weak man, weak.

It’s out on 1st December (or the date on the jpg above?) on Music Kidz Records/RGS and I’ve done my bit for good music.

'Through The Storm' - Silver (single review)

Now this track has been getting good reviews, so they won’t mind if I lay into it.

The dramatic opening flops into a mismatched stuttery beat after 12 seconds and soon after follow the club synths and auto-tune vocals. And no, this isn’t a track from Lil’ Wayne or Kanye West’s latest LP, it’s the single from Silver produced by Sermstyle. The beat was apparently shopped to major labels in the states – nothing to boast about really; that your track is a reject before ever hitting the shelves.

Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a bad track, but in a take it/leave it situation, the latter would be my decision. Amongst all the other stuff released this year, this does not hold up. Give me Sway’s album any day.

And that is what Silver appears to be - a good MC, not a great MC. He does describe adequately, using a rather American vernacular (not accent), his ‘grind’ and has a cheeky pop at poppy lyrics. Imitation may be the best form of flattery but in Silver’s case mimicry makes it all the more evident he wishes it was him who’d had a hit with ‘Umbrella’.

I can’t recommend this track but if I hear better from him I’ll let you know. I won’t give up on Silver yet.

'She Looks Good' ft. Kevin Mark Trail - L.Star & Tweetie (single review)

What do you do once you’ve plundered one of the biggest pop songs in history in order to get a hit? You draft in a slightly jaded R’n’B singer and go for the jugular of Ironik’s target audience. You also add said Eurythmics-sampling track into the package. I’m talking about L.Star & Tweetie’s latest track ‘She Looks Good’ featuring Kevin Mark Trail.

Apparently they “deliver a combination of bouncy basslines, manipulating melodies, poignant punchlines and cheeky comedy, that only they can get away with.” Read it as such: “They deliver a mish-mash of no basslines, boring piano loops, awful chat-up lines and disgustingly clichéd lyrics that you will not let them get away with.”

Maybe the bouncy basslines come on the second track; some kind of remix (imaginatively entitled ‘bassline remix’) which might be half decent if it wasn’t for the whack lyrics and orgasm sounds littered all over it. The third track is ‘Street Dreamz’, probably the one featuring Skinnyman and Flirta D but I couldn’t be bothered to listen to it.

‘Doin It’ (the name of their T shirt brand, which take about 2 months to come if you order one) jacks some UK garage two-step beats last heard probably on Craig David’s debut with Artful Dodger. In short, their half sung/half rapped, unintentional impressions of everyone from Sean Paul to Eminem leave me with the conclusion that they are most certainly not ‘Doin it’. Unless ‘it’ is missing a two-letter prefix.

If you do want a copy, then you’ll have to wait until 8th December when it’s being distributed by Real Records. Poor misguided, mis-named people.