The reason why the first few records by any band or person are usually way better than the ones they make later in their career is that people just get bored of what they’re doing, they get complacent and they get lazy and they just don’t try anymore.
WORDS: ROBERT FOSTER
Remember when all freestyles went a bit like the above? That was the shit, sweaty rage, violence and young men with temper control issues all amped up on Rubicon and ‘Bena, just letting loose in a tiny room at the top of a tower block in E5. That kind of energy and frustration goes into making some fantastic music and creating some really urgent, fascinating art.
Ten years down the line, however, you’ve been surrounded by yes-men and personal assistants for as long as you can remember, and those days of struggle are such an incredibly distant memory that it may as well have happened to someone else.
That’s about the point you find yourself in an air-conditioned radio studio, sitting on a lovely office chair, using a mike with a spit guard and THUMBING THROUGH A GOSSIP MAGAZINE AS YOU RAP. WTF Sean Paul? I know you don’t get a fee for radio appearances so it’s not really worth your while to give that balding douchebag your A game, but the good listeners of Kiss probs tuned in specially to hear you and you couldn’t even tear yourself away from Kerry Katona’s weight gain issues to spit some bars of worth? Remember when you were young and hungry? Probably not. Jesus Christ.
PS Here‘s Sean on a recent trip to Israel.
