Best rapper in the UK at the moment?

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Real shame about Dutchavelli cos he is fucking good, he's got one of the most imposing voices I've heard in British rap. I guess Abra is in that same zone of husky deep voice. Is it cos of Pop Smoke that that voice has become more in vogue or was it just inevitable as a reaction to the autotune stuff? Or am I seeing a trend in a three man triangle?

 

wild greens

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Nah I'm only fucking with you. I think you're right in a sense, there has been a shift towards more aggression really, but who are you comparing it to? I think most of the autotuned squeaky voiced lads have been American really.
 

luka

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One of bartys 'bits' is that the uk didn't follow America into the future and drill is an outlier in that regard marooned on the foreshore of time
 

luka

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lots of voices either deep or straining to be deep in drill from LD to Dutch really no gurgling baby voices outside of a cough syrup fringe
 

wild greens

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Who is Barry? I think if you view "drill" as the future I think it's a bit unusual tbh, how long ago was keef and all them lot

II don't really view any rap as futuristic these days do you? It's all minor incremental changes, there is nothing new in rap that didn't exist in one sense or another ten years ago. Maybe the dance hall ripoff styles but even then it is an incorporation

Rap is as progressive as tech House now. Baby steps
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I'd say drill was dominated by diffident shy teenage boy voices not big hulking voices, that's why people like LD stood out a mile.

Guess it's no coincidence that Dutch is a bit older (though he likes em young apparently).
 

luka

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I was very very drunk the other day with big fat Jim and we were appraising uk drill and we decided it was ethereal and beautiful and very important.
 

luka

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You have to play it quite loud and not be paranoid of your neighbours before you can reach this conclusion
 

luka

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I'd say drill was dominated by diffident shy teenage boy voices not big hulking voices, that's why people like LD stood out a mile.

In Barty's view it goes hand in hand with our disinclination to embrace autotune. I think this is the correct analysis
 

version

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I don't like Headie One. He sounds like he has a permanent cold. That bit in the tune with Drake where he ends every bar with "eh" - "readeh", "Nathan Tetteh", "reggeh" etc - is terrible.

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