Little T Road Rage Review- Mason's illiterate music reviews
In the past few months, the Blackpool music scene has gotten a new-found lease of life with the likes of Afghan Dan, Sophie Aspin and 7k Tha God spitting fresh fire on the Blackpool Grime Media YouTube channel.
But recently a twelve-year-old boy dropped his debut single Road Rage, since then the name Little T terrifies any wannabe MC's; like a rude, unapologetic, rapping Voldemort
At first, everything seems innocent with the video starting with the trademark BGmedia intro montage of young children holding bottles of cheap alcohopop (clearly stolen from their mum's drinks cupboard) and the words "big up Jack Wilkinson on the cam" pasted across the screen in comic sans. The camera then cuts to a young boy with browny blonde hair in a North Face jacket standing in front of a brick wall. This is where most people get lulled into a false sense of security. The song starts with the now infamous bar " Yo, yeah start the bifta (meaning marijuana) I'm gonna rape your little sister (which is self-explanatory)
This line perfectly sets the tone for the rest of the song; it's childish crude and careless; but also incredibly smart. Little T knows how young he is and how he would be perceived by an unknowing audience and plays on this by being as offensive and adult as he can be. He is being offensive on purpose to get a reaction and to gain YouTube revenue, this young child is making money by doing something he loves and I believe that's oddly inspiring.
Apart from it being offensive the reason most people are opposed to this song because it's "made by a child" you know what else was made by a child? Mozart's Allegro in C, and Little T made these bars up on the spot, Mozart spent months composing that song, and it was only ten seconds long (amateur)
The song carries on with Little T dissing other MC's and people he knows. Some of his bars are incredibly underdeveloped; such as lines like, "Marco you will get sparko (all good so far) your mum's on crack (still good) you look like your mum's mac" (and there the bar falls apart). However, he also says some strong memorable lines like "I am twelve it's my time to shine, shut your mouth or I'll break your mum's spine."
The song has a fast-paced groovy beat playing in the background that could get anyone dancing, even when there is a break in the Little T's magical lyrics. The beat was put into the song after the Lyrics were recorded which means you get a better level of audio quality. Most young grime artists play their beat off their phone speaker which ruins the audio quality.
But despite all of my praising this song does have a lot of flaws; it's not the kind of song you would ever expect to hear on the radio anytime soon. However it doesn’t want to be played on the radio, Road Rage is supposed to be a cult YouTube video, and that’s exactly what it will always be; It definitely comes under the category of a guilty pleasure. I hope this song has given Little T enough money to buy himself something nice, maybe a scooter.
