Off the mic with a dope rhyme/Jump to the rythm jump jump to the rhythm jump
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Kat Stevens: Skepta has to be taking the piss here: similes about Noel Gallagher, reality television and classical architecture, vague allusions to the Jubilee and the Olympics. It even sounds like he’s putting air quotes around the obligatory reference to The Club. Top that off with the most obvious sample you can think of — the result is blatantly a big Fuck You to his pop-rap peers, which makes the song title even more hilarious.
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Brad Shoup: Oh, Europe. Never change. This couldn’t possibly hold a candle to the decade’s best use of “Gonna Make You Sweat” (“H.A.V.E.F.U.N.” by Yer Heart), but based on the Noel namecheck I’m awarding a special Shop Boyz Memorial Award in the Field of Not Having a Clue about Rock Music.
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Iain Mew: When the vocal line from the sample comes in after the emo-rap intro, it really ought to be accompanied by a comedy needle scrape for full “wait, wha?” effect. From there the sample and Skepta are two entertaining party guests who are entirely unable to engage in small talk with each other, never mind anything more. It’s all a bit awkward. If pushed to take sides, I’ll go against the guy claiming to “rock and roll like Noel Gallagher.”
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Alfred Soto: Jive Bunny were briefly a global phenomenon, and this grotesque amalgam of Guetta and early nineties dance tropes is too cloddish to even raise an eyebrow at “I rock and roll like Noel Gallagher,” not to mention “I’m the gingerbread man, come and catch me.”
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Andy Hutchins: If Lupe Fiasco were British and afflicted with Flo Rida’s addiction to rapping over the world’s most recognizable samples, he would probably sound like this. (And maybe better than he actually does!)
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Alex Ostroff: “Make Peace Not War” supports Prof. Calvin Harris’ Theory of Bonker’s Power of Dirtee Disco-tivity: The better a rapper’s grime output, the more awkward and potentially embarrassing their inevitable dance-rap fusion track will sound.
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Katherine St Asaph: Oh fuck NO you did not just sample C+C Music Factory for your whatever-grime. I bet the concert has paid extras filling the dance floor.
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Jonathan Bogart: π π π π π π π π π π π
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