ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

ok enough

http://i.imgur.com/COG7V68.jpg

17 MERIDIAN DAN - "German Whip" Ft. Big H & JME [414 points, 14 votes, 2 first place votes]
http://youtu.be/HNnrW54xPaY

Don't beshmurch his good name y'all

Shmurda Woulda Coulda

(okay, maybe not that one)

YES!

Choooon! Even enjoyed the freaky parody thing.

The Shmanson Family Shmurdas

JME is that Tropical guy, yes?

amazing song and in my top 10, despite featuring the worst lyrics of the year from jme:

20 pounds of diesel mate, if i fill up my tank it'll make me late

German Whip is amazing and i'd have voted for it had i not been as strict about 2013 releases.

YASSSSS german whip!!!! had been losing hope for it this high

very fitting that it came b2b after bobby shmurda

I DON'T KICK BALL DO I LOOK LIKE A BALLER

i p much ignore grime (grime, right? UK rap?) so i never heard this till it came up on shuffle during the nominations a few times and i was mostly indifferent, but it's definitely grown on me over the last week, thanks ILM

Shmurda By Death

not heard this

not shmurd this

So glad this placed even though I was hoping for 'That's Not Me'.

haha this is lol british

Not shmeard this u mean

XP LOUIS U FUXX0R

Didn't expect this to place at all, still don't like it that much.

Pouring one out for the vastly superior 'That's Not Me' at this stage.

good grief

So glad this placed even though I was hoping for 'That's Not Me'.

― pandemic, Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:58 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

still hoping for "that's not me" as well!

Tempted to contact Betfair for odds on the next Swiddy track to place (I'm going Style)

This is the oldest and most out of touch I've ever felt on ILM

18. gr8080 feat. Alfred, "I've Got Shit To Do Today" 400 points, 18 votes

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings),

can we get Aeroplane to do the remix

'German Whip' is great, I should've given it some points.

lol let's not get smelling salts over grime when it was, like, one of the biggest genres on this message board back in the day

this german whip song sounds like it could have come out any time in the last 10 years. don't hate it, but i'm surprised it's so popular.

i take it back re: turn down for what, that seems like halcyon days now

I disagree with that actually, German Whip feels like a track very much put together in the shadow of modern US rap, a grime tune from 10 years ago would've sounded nothing like this.

i just can't take british people rapping seriously, sorry

"turn down for what" is a very pleasant surprise!! dope song, never got old for me

actually, you're right matt dc - the production is similar to 'shabba ranks' and other things

anyone surprised by any pop-rap novelty hit making the ilx top 20 is insensate, lol

see me driving a German whip
Blacked out window, leaning back
See me driving a German whip
Look like an order of peas in that?

German what?

Ger-man for what?

german whip isn't grime imo

grime vocals over US rap beat - shouldn't be a novelty but apparently was (enough for it to nearly make the top 10 in Britain)

People not taking British people rapping seriously are dicks imo.

I don't think it was a novelty, I think it was a genuine underground hit, but it's a lot easier for those to turn into actual overground hits than it was a decade ago, for all sorts of reasons.

i think we know by now that imago thinks anything catchy or danceable is "novelty"

Bobby Sremmurd

one of the people in the bobby schmurda video has got my jumper on! not particularly my thing as i dont like words or the sound of the human voice, but the sound palette was really quite reasonable, not a bad effort!

german whip, maybe i shouldnt have watched the video at the same time but it felt like a comedy sketch by those people on tv (i dont know their names but ive saw 5 seconds of them once)

thats not quite true about the words i have overstated my position because of the flu

i dont like words or the sound of the human voice

:)

not particularly my thing as i dont like words or the sound of the human voice

okay now on the saer appreciation train

xp: even more on the train with that clarification tbh

People not taking British people rapping seriously are dicks imo.

― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:14 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not so much dicks as just pitifully parochial in the same way that british people who make a song and dance about not getting US rap or country are. all the more ludicrous to argue it on this particular board. no arguing with it, just feel sorry for them.

voted for 3 US rap songs obv

not so much dicks as just pitifully parochial in the same way that british people who make a song and dance about not getting US rap or country are. all the more ludicrous to argue it on this particular board. no arguing with it, just feel sorry for them.

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 22, 2015 2:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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tbf i do think quite the raps in german whip are a bit embarrassing. the jme line i posted earlier is one example but there are more. still it was a big hit and good fun to rap along to.