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January 31, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Double K (Michael Turner)

Sad news overnight to hear of the passing of Michael Turner aka Double K from the brilliant hip-hop duo People Under The Stairs. No cause of death announced as yet but he was just 43. Sad news indeed for hip-hop fans, perhaps particularly on the back of the recent shock announcement of the death of […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Double K, Double K (Michael Turner), Eulogy, Hip-Hop, Michael Turner, O.S.T., People Under The Stairs, PUTS, Question in The Form of An Answer, R.I.P., R.I.P. Double K (Michael Turner), Rap, The Next Step ·

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December 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 7

Sleaford Mods, Mork N Mindy [Single] (2020) I wasn’t a Day One Sleaford Mods Fan. I know that. I didn’t hate them. But I think it probably wasn’t going to be for me to rate them. Then I listened properly. A couple of albums into their career, not even sure what it was that made […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 20/20, A-side, B-side, Billy Nomates, EP, Little Bits, LP, Mork N Mindy, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Rap, Record, Single, Sleaford Mods, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 7, Vinyl ·

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November 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Megan Thee Stallion: Good News

Megan Thee Stallion Good News 300 Entertainment It’s hard to believe that this is Megan Thee Stallion’s debut album. And I mean that in purely musical terms – 2019’s “mixtape” Fever felt like an album-quality collection, and was a broad announcement; my introduction. I loved that set of songs, played it often – it gave […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 300 Entertainment, Album, Fever, Good News, Hip-Hop, Megan Thee Stallion, Megan Thee Stallion: Good News, Rap, Suga, WAP, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Beastie Boys: Beastie Boys Music

Beastie Boys Beastie Boys Music Capitol There are at least two other (very good) Beastie Boys compilations on the market and still (and always) available and the best one is absolutely The Sounds of Science an anthology that features as many unreleased songs as it does ‘hits’. And that’s the one that soundtracked several of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beastie Boys, Beastie Boys Book, Beastie Boys Music, Beastie Boys Story, Beasties, Book, Compilation, Film, Greatest Hits, Hip-Hop, Rap, Soundtrack, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 37 – Ma$e, “Welcome Back”

Ma$e, Welcome Back 2004 Mase. He was the new protégé after Biggie bought it. And back when Puff Daddy was blowing smoke up other people’s arses, not just his own. Mase hit in big with Harlem World and with his guest appearances in the late 1990s. Then he went soft. Welcome Back was his “comeback” […]
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December 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 199: Dominic Hoey

Welcome to episode 199 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]
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August 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Missy Elliott: ICONOLOGY (ep)

Missy Elliott ICONOLOGY (ep) Goldmind / Atlantic The problem with disappearing in this age is someone arrives to take your place. Much as I’ve missed Missy over the last decade and a bit (nearly 15 years since her last full album, only a handful of singles and collaborations to satiate) I’ve seen Azealia Banks come […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, EP, Hip-Hop, Iconology, Lizzo, Missy, Missy Elliott, Missy Elliott ICONOLOGY (ep), R'n'B, Rap, Sum1, Timbaland, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Kate Tempest: The Book of Traps and Lessons 

Kate Tempest  The Book of Traps and Lessons  American Recordings/UMG  Kate Tempest has been dazzling audiences with both words for the page and words meant for a stage – via volumes of poetry, plays, a novel and albums – and most often there’s been a rage to her voice that is palpable.   She delivered one of the finest shows […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged American Recordings, Dan Carey, Kate Tempest, Kate Tempest: The Book of Traps and Lessons, Personal, Poems, Poet, Politics, Rap, Rick Rubin, Spoken Word, The Book of Traps and Lessons, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love: #2 – Miles Davis, “Doo-Bop”

Miles Davis, Doo-Bop, 1992 Okay, it might not be the worst Miles Davis album but it’s up there. It has to be. Simply because no other Miles Davis album has a track on it where someone steps up and raps: Let’s kick a verse for my man called Miles ‘Cause seems to me he’s gonna be ’round for a long […]
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August 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 265 

Beastie Boys, Paul’s Boutique (1989) Just recently I wrote about this album and some of what it means to me – got quite into the idea of this being 30 years old. It was and is one of my favourite albums. Still. Always. I love everything from the Beastie Boys – but this was always ‘The One’. And yet my original […]
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June 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Matangi / Maya / M.I.A: DVD

Matangi / Maya / M.I.A Director: Steve Loveridge Madman  The Amy Winehouse documentary was devastating – of course. But what was amazing about it – as is the case with documentary subjects that came of age across the last two decades – was the gathered footage. Home videos, goof-offs, early social media…
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Doco, Doco Review, Documentary, DVD, DVD Review, Film, Film Review, Hip-Hop, Immigrant, M.I.A., Madman, Madonna, Matangi, Matangi / Maya / M.I.A, Matangi / Maya / M.I.A: DVD, Mathangi Arulpragasam, Maya, Movie Review, Music Doco, Politics, Pop Music, Rap, Sri Lanka, Steve Loveridge, Superbowl, Tamil, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 289 

Run-DMC, Walk This Way [Single] (1986) I’m pretty sure I knew this version and knew about Run-DMC before I knew the Aerosmith version and maybe even before I (really) knew about Aerosmith. I certainly got into Aerosmith (for a while) on the back of this. I remember that much. Then it was to Beastie Boys and Public Enemy and all sorts of things on the […]
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