j hus - dem boy paigon

So yeah, this guy's about to become massive, right? Did You See is getting regularly daytime Radio 1 rotation, but it really hit home on Sunday when I sat on the Tube opposite two kids who must have been maybe eight or nine excitedly telling their mum how awesome J Hus was.

And then to drop a massive slab of fake g-funk as the teaser for the album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xld8I3xtxRk

(Also their mum was sort of nodding politely and trying not to look bored)

Wasn't too impressed by the new track at first but it's grown on me. I didn't know Did You See was on daytime Radio 1 but I did notice it's got about 12 million views on youtube

feels like there's been a load of buzz around about him recently, been seeing his name everywhere. good PR plus his music/he is quite charming, - should be a win. hope the new one is good. thought 15th day was mixed but the best (dem boy paigon, shawty inda bando) were great and i p much had on solid rotation at the time.

xpost agreed about did you see, but really into it now

friendly was great tho & wasnt mentioned on ilx?

glad to hear he's getting some buzz

common sense is incredible

the album is brilliant, his stage presence live is incredible, imminent stardom makes total sense

OHHHHHHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYYYYY.

Get dough like we're obligated / Dem man discombobulated / That's big boy grammar / came through with a big boy blamma

enjoying Common Sense. I like the way this guy is interested in trying a lot of different styles and isn't tied down to grime/UK hiphop purism

straight fire beginning to end, this album. top marks as an afrobeats album (or "representation of the scene" or w/e), top marks as a rap album, top marks as a pop album

man how good is this album? don't think I've gone a day without listening to it since it came out.

delete clartin and the last 3 tracks, move "spirit" to the end and it's basically perfect. wish i was in london so i could hear this coming out of every car.

think clartin bangs and it went off when I saw him live (which was great btw)

agree the albums great tho

Thumbs up from Caramanica in NY Times

thumbs up from me too. 'Good Luck Chale' is so good

yeah this is great, also top warm weather music

Grime for the winter, afro-bashment for the summer

J Hus is a star and I like this album a lot. Still miss a bit of the spontaneous dem boy paigon-ish fun however. I wish there were a bit more 100 bpm dance friendly jams and a bit less trying to make another Blueprint.

*brueprint

http://www.thefader.com/2017/04/25/j-hus-fader-cover-story-interview-afrobeats

Jace DJ Rupture Clayton cover story on J Hus

New EP up on Spotify. It's called Big Spang. I have no clue what that means

J Hus has appeared in court, after being charged with carrying a knife.

London's Metropolitan Police confirmed to Newsbeat, using his real name Momodou Jallow, that the rapper was remanded in custody.

The 23-year-old was arrested on 21 June, after being stopped in a vehicle by a marked police car.

"Occupants of the vehicle were searched and a man was arrested on suspicion of being in possession of a knife/ bladed article," police said.
He was arrested close to Westfield shopping centre in Stratford and appeared at Thames Magistrates Court the following day.

The MOBO award winner, and three-time Brit award nominee, has upcoming gigs in the next month that appear to be in doubt.

They include appearances at TRNSMT festival in Glasgow on 30 June and London's Wireless festival on 7 July.

J Hus' management has been contacted by Newsbeat but have not yet commented.

what a dickhead

dancing man is a bop

what a dickhead

Here's the part where I say that a famous rapper being caught with a knife is, at best, spectacularly unhelpful in the current climate in London.

Here's the part where I say that it's probably not as easy as people think to transition out of a life when you're in and out of prison, where you get stabbed five times, to one where you're hugely recognisable and where there are still a lot of people who want to fuck with you, and you aren't yet rich enough to fully isolate yourselves from them. The album is full of moments of claustrophobia and fear and the sense of living with explicit threats and there's no reason to believe that isn't from lived experience. I'm working on the assumption he wasn't actually on his way to attack anyone.

Also, I wonder how the police knew to search his vehicle?

yeah that's what I'm wondering too

i mean "driving while black" obv but i haven't read an official explanation

my dickhead comment was mostly out of frustration (i love this guy) BUT great post, Matt, thanks.

fuck sake

J Hus jailed for eight months for carrying knife
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-46523489

bloody hell

Also, I wonder how the police knew to search his vehicle?

― Matt DC, Sunday, June 24, 2018 9:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They said they'd smelled some weed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPXLMBrWtkM

He's back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2D8OkMKsG4

super excited for whatever's next for him, Common Sense is still an album of the decade contender

this is a m a z i n g. the strings! the sax!!

it's so lush i love it. i'm glad he's still working with jae5 they have an incredible creative partnership

They really do. Loving this one

Good to see this song nominated for the EOY, it’s great. And yes, Jae5 deserves equal billing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJL5XGQDM00

So it looks like the next album is going to be just as good as Common Sense

Great stuff, fantastic production, yet again (that bass! the trumpets!), and it’s not even by Jae5 - this is a TobiShyBoy joint.

love this, he's continuing to be on another level

🚨

Going to take some beating in 2020 this album.

oh wow, the album is out?!!

features by Burna

and Koffee

...and iceé tgm (?)

really enjoying this but it's a bit of a different vibe to common sense. there's less of the summery pop that made up a good portion of common sense and the beats are generally moodier and a little more low-key. really like the one with koffee and "must be" sounds even better in context of the album

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7onauZHYRF/

this implies there's probably another track going to be added to the album, with ella mai?

This is terrific!

loving this, though it feels distinctly wrong to be listening in broad daylight

whatever is going on with his voice on the chorus of "Triumph" is amazing

Superb album. It sounds incredibly good. Lots of people on top of their game here.

Also:

when u hear the other tracks i did with her. KMT it’s looooooong ! https://t.co/M9stGiWj1y

— JAE5 (@JAE5_) January 24, 2020

they only respect violence, bad man move in silence

I'm getting super into this. anyone read the pfork review? some really iffy lines in it...

It’s also a prime example of a review that almost exclusively focuses on the lyrics (in a very uninteresting way at that) and barely acknowledges the music* and the production* (no mention of the features either).

*which are spectacularly good - reviewer, why not expand on this?

"must be" sounds even better in context of the album

Agreed, this applies to No Denying as well. There aren't as many stand out single tracks like Did You See but I think it works better as a whole than Common Sense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQkX6WrJols

New freestyle on an old dancehall riddim

no posts since april - mirrors my experience, I m/l forgot about this album in the interim as well, but we're reunited baby and IT FEELS SO GOOD. for one, as love duets with Ella Mai go, I might like "One and Only" even better than "Piece Of Me". this thing is going to end up really high on my ballot.

also, "Cucumber".

I def listened to it over the summer a few times, but given that I apparently forgot Ella Mai was even on it, I am obvs due for a revisit!

“triumph” is prob the most traditional rap song on here but it’s the one that speaks to me the mosf

huh for some reason that Ella Mai track isn't on my version of this

it's track 12 of 14 here.

but, per Wikipedia:

Notes: The album's tracklist was updated on 4 February 2020 to include the song "One and Only".

ah ok I was too eager I guess. Great song, glad they worked out whatever the issue was

iirc it was a delay with a sample clearance or something

i've been consistently listening to this all year and it's still just as good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKbJwGjXAQ

new music at last, album seems to be titled don't say militancy

unfortunately jae5's said he's not involved with the album at all because he wanted hus to do something with more emotional depth but hus just wanted to make a party record this time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlJQudt_OtU

somehow j hus produced by p2j is just underwhelming? he's just not the right sort of vocalist to really fit with this sort of afrobeats, and drake's presence is completely forgettable (also surprising that drake hasn't gotten p2j to produce for him before)

new album (actually titled beautiful and brutal yard) is definitely his weakest - not bad but a very noticeable step down, there's a bunch of softer beats that just don't work for him, as well and far too many ridiculously terrible sex raps