luka

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Skillibeng is objectively better than Pop Smoke by any measure but having said that Skillibeng makes an absolute dogs dinner of that.
 

luka

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Hes tied himself up in knots. He's not working with the kinetics of the thing at all. Better to have some idiot shouting punctuation marks in all the right places which is what pop smoke does
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
You can't prise them apart, it's as if his voice is an instrument/effect that Axl Beats programmed into the beat.
 

luka

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its why I feel sorry for Axl Beats. Who would have been a superstar and led the next big trend but now he has to go back to Ilford and sign on.
 

Benny Bunter

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Right I see where you're coming from now. The dior remix is obviously a quickly tossed off tribute thing, far from Skillibengs best btw, just interesting to hear. Still, I hate Pop Smoke.
 

luka

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As i say he's got the sense to work with the kinetics of those uk drill beats, he doesn't tie them down. But he is so unusually oafish with his stupid made up Cookie Monster voice that very embaressing. So I enjoy it and cringe at the same time.
 

luka

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He's not cool. He doesn't look cool. He doesn't sound cool. You don't get any teen crush/idolisation element.
 

luka

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interesting to see America copying the English here. they've usually taken a much more lassez faire (woops?) approach to this stuff as far as i know
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Been trying to get into some of this stuff cos i figure it's s popular there must be something to it but I generally find it hard work

I found a few tunes by Sha Gz I like though



His delivery is so fast and furious that I can't actually understand a lot of the lyrics (plus slang obvs)


We probably covered in this thread how uk drill feels a lot more spacious and precise than the ny drill that I've heard

Webby will roll his eyes probs but I do think this is a case of it being music for young rowdy ppl, the throat-lacerating vocals are verging on heavy metal
 
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