Blak Twang’s long awaited 5th album “Speaking from Xperience” is set to be released September 29th 2008 on Abstract Urban.
Blak Twang’s elder statesman status means he’s a natural spokesman for home-grown hip-hop, whether defending the scene he helped put back in the shop window on prime-time television, or his battle-hardened tones meaning every track he blesses is given a thick coating of experience, knowledge and wisdom. But Twang has never been one for relying on high-fiving himself, preferring the oft-cited defiance of letting the music talk for itself. Ignited by the jump-off single
Help Them Lord – a crashing, rousing extension of Jahmali’s So Rotton chorus – Speaking from Xperience has him snatching back his throne, and getting nice and comfy on it while he’s at it. Right from the starter’s gun, he resumes domestic sovereignty on the apocalyptic Legends, trading breathless show-n-proves with Sway, and Nah I Ain’t Done relishes putting impudent inquisitors back on the shelf.
Tony Rotton has always produced his own beats whilst working alongside various talented beat makers. This time around collaborations have come from First Man and Silvastone Beats on production and sharing mic time with right-hand man K9 as well as Kanye West connect Rhymefest, UK's own up and coming talent Tor and Nigeria's MTV award winning singer Tuface Idibia Rotton’s unshakeable, knuckle-whitening grip on the mic steadfastly remains. Once a lyric’s spat, it stays spat, lamenting the easily influenced on
Champagne Lifestyle and Nu N’uh alongside Estelle. Resting on laurels has never been a good look, meaning the maintenance of survival instincts is essential, developing into a one-man amnesty on Cant Truss Dem, How Long, and So Hard rummaging through old soul 45s to score tales of today’s harsh realities.
Taking a moment to survey his status, the memoirs of Raplife and ‘96 pick up where Ain’t Done 2 Bad left off. Hey People switches up to grime-shocked pressure, epitomising the Twangsta moving away slightly from his usual block-knocking, ragga-streaked beats and presenting new erudition in higher definition, full of battle royale fanfares and titan-grappling strings. That said, Click n Roll has Blak Twang spitting a saliva-flying inferno over club-toppling drums, and though he may not admit it himself, Twang can be a chivalrous gentle giant, as
For the Summa confirms.
They say there’s no substitute for experience, and the return of the Rotton One vigorously and determinedly upholds this maxim.
Click on the link below to hear the album, read biog and check out the video and single for “Champagne Lifestyle” which is available as a digital download single only.
http://www.unionblack.co.uk/blaktwang/BlakTwang_Ecard.html
Posted by Anna Nathanson
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