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Joell Ortiz talks gentrification

Most people have no clue how frustrating and draining the process of "Gentrification" can be to working class areas. The fluctuating economy has kept a lot of South London protected to an extent but it's definitely affected the potential job markets for local people, the class war is very, very real in the UK right now. The current gentrification of music is having the same affect. It's become more and more frustrating to see the soul of the music I make ripped out because it's an "In" trend. Too many suburban college boys read the Russel Simmons and Rick Rubin Def Jam story for my liking, culturally we're stagnating in the UK and the US. There are hurdles we are told to tackle that have nothing to do with us. Club nights that have nothing to do with us dictate whether or not our songs are going to be supported in certain media circles. When did they get that power? When did we give it to them? In these times of limited record sales, extended media and short attention spans, the privileged few call the shots. I'm going to get into this heavy on my second album.

LINK: JoellOrtiz.wordpress.com- Brooklyn Bullshit

This week I shall be mostly listening to...

Giggs. Purely because he spits hard South London shit. I don't even know if I like it yet. But honestly Grime has been getting really, really, really fake lately. I can only listen to authentic hard shit from the UK. It's like the American stuff has an expected level of bullshit that I don't want in Britain. Some times you just need some belligerence in your life.

Mr Carter Spoof. Funny stuff.

I feel good knowing that there will be a new Jay-Z album before 2009. Don't ask me how I know, I just know; he hinted that Kanye might produce it. Could you imagine that? In today's rap age? That could be another milli-week. I don't know why this video made me think about a new Jay-Z album but it did, the video itself is pretty funny.

Get Money

Devil In The Distance Sampler on MySpace

It's my second release date today. In the music industry you sometimes have a few release dates, one for radio, one for online, one for press, well last week was really the online and official release date, this week is the everything else release date. To celebrate (crap celebration) Jack made a little sampler of the album for us to put up on the MySpace for you to download. It's the first verse from every album track, some with the chorus, it's all mixed with sirens and glass smashes for your listening pleasure. So if you haven't decided whether or not you're going to part with your £7.90 this fine day, check out the sampler on the MySpace...

LINK: MySpace.com/MarvTheMarsh

Or you can download a slightly higher quality MP3 from zShare

BUY FROM: iTunes

Marvin- Get By (Be Good) [Track 4]


Marvin- Superhero [Track 9]


Marvin- That One Time [Track 5]

What the deuce? Bleek?

Memphis Bleek gets it where he can, you've got to respect it...or not in this case.

It gets on and popping at the 3 minute mark.

Barry George is free

I wrote on my site when this retrial began that I understood Barry George to be innocent. I'm both ecstatic and absolutely livid that Barry George has been released from prison. Ecstatic that a man who had 8 years have been deleted by a disgusting, disgraceful, sickening miscarriage of justice is free to pick up what's left of his life. I am livid that he will not get his 8 years back and that now 10 years since Jill Dando's murder; finding an actual culprit will be virtually impossible. There were political forces at play here, I hope to see Barry pick up a fat compensation package and I hope to see thousands of bogus DNA charges appealed over the coming months.

Bring back double-jeopardy.

Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip- Letter From God To Man [VIDEO]

I really, really, really like these guys. I just noticed Example in the video. Ha! I need to do a song with Dan Le Sac.

They're on Blogspot's bastard cousin Wordpress

Bolt

'bolt' Teaser Trailer @ Yahoo! Video

I don't know about Travolta but this looks funny.

Eat To Live

This song is way too incredible.

Gary McKinnon

Gary McKinnon is wanted by the US government to be tried for hacking into their military computers, they claim he caused crazy damage and had sinister motives. He claims he wanted to find out about secret aliens (if I could hack, I would so find out about the secret aliens), he didn't cause any damage and admits guilt. Everybody knows there's no justice like American justice and frankly if our government has the opportunity to protect one of us from the convoluted Guantanamo Bay arm of American Law then it absolutely must. Or so you'd think, he's spent the last 6 years fighting with the British courts against a fast track extradition to the US so he can face trial in Britain and he is losing. He's now ready to take the matter to the European courts where I hope he can have a little more success (he probably will to be honest, they're less concerned about pissing off the allies...sometimes it's a bad thing, in this instance it could be positive). The idea of being fast-track extradited to America for a breach of "National security" chills me to my bone. You probably knew all that, I just wanted to make sure everybody clicks the link below with the full and certain knowledge that this shit is fucked up.

Support Gary at FreeGary.org.uk.

John Lydon breaks it down

John Lydon is having a bit of a summer. He's touring with Sex Pistols again and he's getting in as much trouble as possible. I watched him retort to the Kele Okereke affair on 'The One Show' the other day, it was pretty amusing, I'm not sure whether "My grandchildren are Jamaican" is a response to any other question than "Are you a racist?" which is pretty excellent. Today he's in the headlines for calling Amy Winehouse "Aimless" (no doubt about that) and claiming that she's imitating black music and taking drugs to cover up for a lack of talent. To quote NME.com on the subject...

"There's not a single word that means anything. It's not like these songs are deeply moving or inspirational or cultural in any way you could find useful."

Referring to his distrust of artists influenced by jazz, the punk icon said: "I don't like pale imitations and shades of things and I am always wary when people go jazzy because jazz is the best cover up for a lack of talent the world has ever known. It don't wash real with me.

"And the cover up for her which is probably the guilt trip is that she requires vast amounts of drugs to hide the fact that she is fake."

There can be very little argument against what John's saying. I like Amy Winehouse's songs, I can't deny it, I own her last album; I actually own her first album which sucks. But you can just see a room of advisers (label/ management) saying "Okay, she can sing, whatever we've got here we've got a singer. She's out of the Brit School though so there's not much going on in terms of artistry. How are we going to make her credible? Hmmmm...." the answer of course was to rip off a form of music that isn't directly viable to the British public, they've got a nice little white girl doing it, they can afford the best producers and song writers and they can say Radio 2 made her. Genius! It's the same process everybody out of The Brit School goes through when breaking into the pop industry. I actually wish we could go back to the days when Brit School alumni joined embarrassing girl/ boy groups like Blue and Another Level, there was transparency back then. These days you have to keep your guard up in case The Kooks turn out to be trained, or Kate Nash, or Leona Lewis, or Floetry, or The Feeling, or Adele...oh wait...

I Am Number 1

Well Dizzee's number 1. More power to him of course. But out of all the songs about having a job I am number 1. Dizzee had a song about having a job actually. Aha! Does that mean by proxy I'm number 1 for life? I think it might. I think it might almost certainly mean that.

Being serious, I was mentioned in The Guardian today in an article about anti-work songs and I was mentioned at number 1. I'm above Dolly Parton's perfect '9 To 5' and Clapham born Canibus. Go buy 'I Hate My Job' I loved that record, I toured it with Akala, Yes Boss and Goldie Lookin Chain, it was a lot of fun.

LINK: The article online

BUY: I Hate My Job on iTunes

MYSPACE IS GAY: I can't upload my own songs. Genius.