ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

Yeah, idk what this top 20 even is

I was at the Just Jam thing in London before Christmas and Skepta turned up unannounced and people went absolute apeshit, just piling forward and dancing in this fully-seated classical concern hall and I realised what an anthem this actually was. It pretty much immediately went from the lower reaches to the top of my ballot.

I don't know any of these songs but <3 u ilm

YES!!! Love this from the opening second. Plus "Act like a wasteman" always makes me think of Nakh.

― pandemic, Thursday, January 22, 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol.

yes my #25 haha, so good

both "that's not me" and "german whip" are two of the 5 best british rap songs ever

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 22, 2015 9:01 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Really want to know what the other three are. (Does Slick Rick count?)

this seems to have a pleasant message at least, and is somewhat compelling. easily the best song of the day so far

Yeah, idk what this top 20 even is― Johnny Fever, Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:02 AM (46 seconds ago)

Lol yeah this is a good year

Really want to know what the other three are. (Does Slick Rick count?)

'Pass Out' + 'Wearing My Rolex' + one up for grabs.

J0rdan S what are the others in your top 3? throw in a French one if you're not sure

here's my british rap song top 5, all sales final

1. wiley - wearing my rolex
2. tinie tempha - pass out
3. dizzee rascal - i luv u
4. meridian dan - german whip
5. skepta - that's not me

matt DC otm

you could exchange "i luv you" for "if you're going out i'm going out too" and i would not be mad

That's Not Me is great, hadn't heard that before
Every song on Run the Road is better than German Whips

never heard of skepta before getting the results last weekend but this songs been on loop ever since, the all-star remix is fun too

― gr8080, Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:01 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my favourite skepta classic from back in the day is "duppy"

o fuq "German Whip" is rad as hell

I'd heard "That's Not Me" before too but relistening to it, it sounds much nicer

Whoa, I just found out Monie Love is British.

'Pass Out' + 'Wearing My Rolex' + one up for grabs.

Witness, IMO

Jaymc you couldn't tell??

actually for all the admirable things that aren't him, casual possessiveness over women isn't one of them - he seems to contradict himself numerous times about this, deliberately or otherwise - a sensitive man looking for the right partner or someone who will 'take your girl, no dinner no rose /
two minutes in my bedroom, no clothes'?

having an argument about uk hiphop without mentioning jehst :O lol

my folks when I wrote them told 'em what I was up to said that's not me

witness is too literally british rap to be included in an american's best british rap list

Next song pls

the most fun i had on a dancefloor in 2014 was at a wedding when "turn down for what" played

Every song on Run the Road is better than German Whips

― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:08 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"unorthodox daughter" is still probably my favourite grime track ever. SPIT A COUPLE BARS AND PUT YOU IN BUPA

same xpost

In all seriousness, some of the best parts of Turn Down For What are the silent bits.

this is a hell of a lot better than meridian dan, that's for sure. guest verse is kind of terrible, but i dig it overall. love the plip-plop synth percussion.

hadn't heard either of these british rap songs b4, on first listen "that's not me" is much better, not totally into "german whip"

god that caribou track is so boring

lol nice to see "habits" place i guess, honestly radio overplay has basically killed the song for me. i liked it when it came out in 2013 but it didn't get a lot of traction here.

Hey, I dont' really expect it to, but Digital Witness isn't going to place, is it?

Love for the Gs in the ends
We don't love no girls in the ends
Last time I fell in love with a sket
But trust me, I will never do that again

Urban Dictionary: sket
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sket
Definition of a young girl late teens or 20's who sleeps around willingly and without worry.

so he's a ho-shaming cunt as well? hate this now

i ain't mad at shmurda placing

you lot will excuse some awful fucking lyrical sentiments if it has a halfway banging beat or a slogan

Love for the Gs in the ends
We don't love no girls in the ends
Last time I fell in love with a sket
But trust me, I will never do that again

Urban Dictionary: sket
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sket
Definition of a young girl late teens or 20's who sleeps around willingly and without worry.

so he's a ho-shaming cunt as well? hate this now

― my shoes are deception (imago), Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:17 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Please, this has been extremely common UK street slang for a decade now. Even I know this.

xp that is true for me

you lot will excuse some awful fucking lyrical sentiments if it has a halfway banging beat or a slogan

― my shoes are deception (imago), Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:18 AM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark

guitar riff too

XxxxXpost yeah No Lay rules

Smdh at J0rd for saying German Whips is better than, say "Cock Back"

also a very nice and relaxing flute arrangement

feel like both shmurda and makonnen struck gold w their hits and interestingly both of them had a second song that was good too but prob neither of them are crafty enough to repeat that brilliance, it was just a moment

you lot will excuse some awful fucking lyrical sentiments if it has a halfway banging beat or a slogan

― my shoes are deception (imago),

I dont excuse the presence of lyrics at all, there should be less of them

you lot will excuse some awful fucking lyrical sentiments if it has a halfway banging beat or a slogan

― my shoes are deception (imago), Thursday, January 22, 2015 7:18 AM (20 seconds ago)

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the run of the last few posts is so weird to me. i joined ilx largely because of the amount of grime discussion happening and now there are n00bs who need it explained to them

that being said, although it isnt something I'd play personally, the skepta was the first one Ive been able to play right the way through

out of all of them?!?

both of them had a second song that was good too but prob neither of them are crafty enough to repeat that brilliance, it was just a moment

the rap game future islands

Y'all are forgetting Buffalo Stance

kinda hate "habits" tbh

Making british rap the second track you show appreciation for has dropped you considerably in my ledger, saer :(

neneh cherry is swedish tho

LJ there are literally dozens of threads in which rap fans talk about having to work through and past sentiments they find repellant, stop posturing and pretending you're the first person to have raised this brave new sentiment.

neneh cherry is swedish tho

― lex pretend, Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:23 PM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah come on