Enter the Radio: Soweto Kinch

been a while but rotation must continue. enter soweto kinch's "a life in the day of B19 - tales of the tower block" - another jazz/hip hop (UK) hybrid album. to be honest, i've never really gotten into UK hip hop and i don't even know where to begin to search for quality stuff. so when a workmate (who i introduced to madlib) gave me the album a month ago, i was skeptical but ended up surprised. boy, there's so much good shit out there i don't know about.

this is soweto's 2nd album, released in 2006. it is the first instalment of a two-part concept album documenting the lives of three inner-city birmingham men which IMHO is way nicer than his first album "conversations with the unseen". the quality i admire most in an emcee is his ability to tell stories and that's what this album does superbly. it's a concept album, so you'll have to listen to it from track 1 to 15 in that order, to really feel it - well, probably only the jazz-tuned mind.
my favourite tracks: everybody raps (13) - maybe its because of the public announcer-rapper with a hardcore yoruba accent spitting rhymes, i don't know. padz (7) - this is a parody of mtv cribs showing how material and silly the world is. love gamble (5) - the story of the misfortunes of adrian. word-from-your-moms ish.

a moment in the life of soweto kinch (interview)