Down For The Count Records - "Eddie Holman"
So when I heard that Forkie had formed a record label, I was all like 'For the love of Zeus, why? There aint no money in rap. Go invest your money in something which will provide reasonable returns in the short-term such as uranium shares or gambling on dogfights'.
Luckily though I'm not a certified Financial Advisor, can never find the dogfights out in Sunshine and Force never listens to a word I say anyway. So old mate dropped Down For The Count Records on an unsuspecting public, assembling some of the finest heads who have all been shovelling shit in the coal mines of the underground for a while.
The result is an LP that is fucking tight from front to back both lyrically and, even though there is a slew of producers, sonically too. By now you should all know that Sparts and Force together are like goddam relentless rhyme steamrollers crushing anything in their path, especially if you caught their Powerlines EP. Well you also get Sin Synik (who you may remember as Sinks) and his implausibly elastic flow, Dazed's emphatic MPC bangers and thoughtful mic steeze and this Mol One kid (who I only remember from some Blazin Marty collabo) who is going to be a beast if somebody keeps feeding him.
Seriously it's one of my favourite releases of the year. And I hate a lot of shit. Actually probably most shit. Especially yours.
I was gonna post 'King Killaz Part 2', cause the strings that Dazed laced that number with are what you would normally hear upon waking up and finding Freddie Kreuger standing over your bed and cause Sparts says Trotskyite. But Dazed already threw that beat at Grand Arkiteks for his 7. Also nearly threw out 'The Ones' cause Force's words over Shroomz's stuttering headnodder feels like my own personal anthem.
But what you're getting above is the opener 'Eddie Holman'. Describing it pointless when you can just click the cover and listen, but what you're getting is the whole crew straight ripping a B Wiv heater with horns that Pete Rock couldn't have placed more perfectly. It's the shit.
Oh and Bunks didn't do the tag.