Prendere Coraggio

First let me apologise to my regular readers (if indeed I have any) for the lateness of this week's post. No excuse really, I just fancied a Sunday off for a change.

Also, before I get to the spotlight, may I express a genuinely heart-felt thank you to everyone that contributed to the #HelpSaveACLT campaign. Between us we've managed to raise a total of £85,630.10, exceeding the £80,000 that was required by 31/03/11 with 20+ days to spare. Having said that, I'm sure that they will be happy to continue accepting donations so please feel free to continue visiting the Virgin Money Giving page, the Gimme 10 - Save the ACLT page or sending texts to 70300. Thanks again.

Back to the task at hand, allow me to introduce you to Journey Brave, a rapper from Loganville, Georgia in the United States. I first was made aware of his existence through Twitter and his version of 'Devil In A New Dress', which I featured during my stint on the previous station.

Since then I've been keeping an eye/ear on his progress and was more than happy to share his latest video with as many people (no pun) as possible via tweets and, now, here on this blog. Those of you with any sense of history will, I'm sure, recognize what this video represents. Powerful stuff.

Speaking of power, let's have more to the elbow of bigCAKES another member of The People's Army who is also a featured artist on K-Nite 13's 'The Drawing Board' (listen out for 'Miracle Worker', a big tune). Cakes has a seemingly ravenous appetite for hard graft and, consequently, has a large back catalogue of mixtapes and features for you all to explore. He may be exceedingly good but he's not fattening. Catch up with him on Twitter for fun and informed opinion.

The last video in this week's trio is from a dude called English Frank, yet another People's Army affiliate, who recently connected with me on Facebook. Whether he's the Frank you're supposed to talk to when you have a problem with drugs, I couldn't say, but he's certainly someone you should listen to. As is customary for me in this blog, here's the young man's Twitter link.

As I leave you for another week, please remember to submit your music to me for the 'Beat Shop' by e-mailing me and/or by using my Dropbox. Remember also that you don't have to send me the whole track, just a 30-60 seconds snippet will do with as many tags/watermarks as you feel are necessary.

Track list:

Friday 04/03/11

Fuck Tha Police - N.W.A.
What's Goin' On - Jungle Brothers
Poetry - Boogie Down Productions
Hip Hop - Dead Prez
Bulldozers feat. Ruste Juxx & Killa Sha - Cyrus Malachi
Godsunz feat. Jus Allah - Infinite Mind
Untouchable feat. Kokane - Nipsey Hussle
Last Call feat. Malarchi - Insane Macbeth
A Dream Within A Dream - Malik MD7
Miracle Worker - Big Cakes
Lemme Think - Rapsody
Built For This feat. Ike Eyes - Agallah
Better Way feat. Layzie Bone - Saigon
Life's Never Enough - Mudmowth & Metabeats
Make You Proud - Mentalist
Interview with Insane Macbeth & Ruffstylz includes:
True Heart feat. Ice Pick - Insane Macbeth
Case Closed - Ruffstylz

Saturday 05/03/11

Mama Feelgood - Lyn Collins
Get On The Good Foot - James Brown
Talking Loud And Saying Nothing - James Brown
Funky President (People It's Bad) - James Brown
I'm In Love - Evelyn King
Moment Of My Life - Inner Life
Runaway Love - Linda Clifford
Fool's Paradise - Meli'sa Morgan
Sleepless Weekend - Frankie Paul & Trevor Sparks
Tonight - Carlton Livingston
Come Again - Cocoa Tea
Big Bamboo - Thriller U
Dangerous System - Pad Anthony
Nuff A We Ah Rude Boy - Scion Success
No Money Today - Matic 16
Let Off Supm - Gregory Isaacs & Dennis Brown
Open The Door - Trevor Hartley
Call On Me - Trevor Hartley
Runaway Love - Natural Mystics
I Don't Really Care - L.V. Johnson
Catchin' Up On Love - Kinsman Dazz
Madamoiselle - Foxy
Time Is Right - MCB
Southern Freeez - Freeez

One Love, Spy!

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