Tinie Tempah - Discovery

so I saw this guy perform on TV, Paladia HD was showing some British festival...

Is this dude like the B.O.B. of England or what?

exactly

Is this dude like the B.O.B. of England or what?

Ha! otm

(featuring Ella Eyre)
(featuring 2 Chainz)
(featuring Labrinth)
(featuring Dizzee Rascal and Ty Dolla Sign)
(featuring John Martin)
(featuring Candice Pillay)
(featuring Big Sean)
(featuring Emeli Sandé)
(featuring Sway Clarke II)
(featuring Paloma Faith)
(featuring Laura Mvula)

Bingo.

Seriously, I could not imagine a less pulse-quickening set of collaborators than that. Maybe stick Eliza Doolittle in there as well.

Driving the car into the ditch by getting Jessie J on a track would at least show commitment.

since no one else will be morbid enough to listen to this i shall now liveblog chucklesome tinie lines as they wash over me

1. thinking about life / listening to too short / maybe they'll have a statue of me in madame tussauds

2. trying to get fellatio / from girls as fresh as daisy lowe

3. tiger beer or cobra / lime in my corona / shakes down my bilateral periorbital hematoma

3 is #accidentalpartridge

4. life threw me lemons / now celebrity juice on my sofa

5. and a girl to make a racket / call her anna kournikova / had to put me in another tax bracket / so much for my diploma

6. roses gabor (no!) / ester dean (yes!) [wtf]

7. another woman under cover like a bryan ferry album

She take it off but leave on her stilettos / You know you can find me around white girls like Othello

i have no idea whether any of these lines are on-the-nose rtc parodies or not

kournikova reference :)

what is he doing talking about roses gabor but not getting her on the album

2. trying to get fellatio / from girls as fresh as daisy lowe

if i was to listen to this, this line would be the point at which i would stop, btw

(featuring Emeli Sandé)

and YOU AGAIN!

she's on the robert glasper too

A cursory skim has confirmed this to be an completely unsurprising dud, but 'Don't Sell Out' is pretty fun.

(featuring Dizzee Rascal and Ty Dolla Sign)

wait what

the song with 2 chainz is remarkably bad

The Dizzee/Ty Dolla Sign track is called 'Mosh Pit'.

Guess what it sounds like.

haha the daisy lowe line is obv the best thing on the album. (and yeah cosign on 'don't sell out')

music got too shit for me to continue this lil project after the first few tracks, although the othello one is giving me new life

The Othello one is from the same song as the Daisy Lowe one!

His voice has either gotten deeper or he's deliberately making it so and he's lost a lot of his youthful charisma in the process :/

oh! well that's handy

goes without saying the worstest line is 'trampoline's "i'm just strictly speaking anne frankly"

although "in a white ferrari spider, rolling with anansie" afterwards is prob his legit hottest

shift k3y remix of that is obviously choice btw

Guess what it sounds like.

― Matt DC, Monday, November 4, 2013 2:04 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

nooooo

then she vogue / then she vogue / AGYNESS DEYN

you can pretty much tell when a dumb 2 chainz verse is him being sly and when it's him not giving a flying fuck about the quality of the song, and the tinie tempah one might be the best example of the latter

the sad part is that in an alternate world, tinie f/ tity would be the perfect vortex of dad joek rap

otm, if he can lavish "sold out arenas you can suck my penis" on derulo idk why he would phone it in for tinie :/

bit sad about this album tbh, there was no reason for it to be a flop

when the 2 chainz joint came out i thought he was going for full on american crossover but the guests on this don't make it seem like that is the case

maybe he felt shook by the idea of rudimental snatching his career?

nah i think the tity bit was always intended as a bit of extra comeback glamour before going for the same template as the first album. feel like that's a known brit strategy although examples escape me

eesh 'mosh pit' was produced by rick rock apparently

Rudimental are different enough from Tinie for them to be plenty of room for both of them, but it's true that the pop-grime crew have been totally caught out by the sudden paradigm shift in the British mainstream. It says a lot that none of them have even bothered to jump onto this year's sound.

great shift k3y tunes on 'youth'. the whole thing is sooo good.