Showing posts with label Brooke Candy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brooke Candy. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Jake Emlyn - The Wonka Hath Landed (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Anyone who's familiar with eccentric London rapper Jake Emlyn will know that he's been rapping for several years now. It could be argued that his lack of mainstream attention is down to his androgynous and occasionally effeminate style, and his lack of interest in hip hop trends and standards. But what fans of Jake most love about him is that despite the criticism and confusion surrounding his identity, style and genre, he never changes anything about himself and his music.

"The Wonka Hath Landed", lead track and single off his Scandinavian Alien mixtape, is probably his most outlandish and controversial offering to date. Rapping over a Robyn-esque synthpop pulse, Jake Emlyn on "Wonka..." is self-deprecating, crude, tongue-in-cheek yet a lot more confident than the comparatively subdued and dark "My Name's Jake", his previous calling card track.

He paints a defiantly non-gangster image of himself, drolly referring to himself as "white trash like Kate Nash" wearing "skinny jeans so tight that my penis can't breathe". He also makes his outsider status patently clear, spitting at the climax "my spaceship crashed, I'm stranded, the wonka hath landed." It's an opaque metaphor, one that will continue to confound Jake's growing crowd of picketing nay-sayers. But the apocalyptic Vangelis synth lead and grandiose choirs that follow the statement couldn't make the message clearer - Jake's ambitions are considerable, and he's on a mission that cannot be thwarted. As the man himself says in the second verse: "just when you was about to stop listening to rap, I came back with the wickedest track."

Download Jake's brilliant (and free) Scandinavian Alien mixtape by clicking on the cover above.

FOR FANS OF: Robyn, Brooke Candy

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Brooke Candy - Everybody Does


After a fairly anonymous feature on Charli XCX's Super Ultra mixtape, Brooke Candy's latest single does nothing if not demand your attention. A shuddering trap beat and a delirious arabian vocal loop carry Brooke's brattish flow. The swagger-ridden chorus is pure Kreayshawn, as are the fashion references, but unlike said sub-par hip hop doll, Brooke sounds like she means business. Rather than taunt and tease, she drops lines like "while you were trying on your Louboutins, I was grooving on your man's cock" and "while I'm on another planet, god damn I'm booking shows". It might be a beast of a beat, but Brooke Candy is at least 50% of the attraction here.

FOR FANS OF: Kreayshawn, Iggy Azalea