What are the chances? WHAT ARE THE CHANCES? It’s the month I decide to dedicate to hip hop and sockformation uber-favourites Summer Camp tease us with another track before the release next week of their Always EP. What makes this amazing is that it features a verse from Jet Age of Tomorrow founder and Odd Future member Hal Williams. Therefore this automatically qualifies for #hiphopjuly. Listen to it below and then order the EP. I bought mine from this link right here because I wanted it on vinyl, but if you want to give me 3% or something feel free to click on one of the album covers to your right and search for it on Amazon.

just a quick gift for a saturday morning. frank ocean has just (adopts a voice to make me sound like i’m down with the kids) dropped a new track. ‘thinking about you’ will ease you into your weekend nice and smoothly. open your windows wide, soak in the sun and stick it on while you nurse your hangover. that’s what i’ve done and i think i’m now ready to go and buy a bookcase or two. thanks frank. i’ll let you know how i get on.

live review: ofwgkta. electric ballroom, london. 6 july 2011.

i witnessed odd future take over camden’s electric ballroom last night from the balcony. the reasons for this were three fold. i’m old these days; i didn’t want to ruin myself for today’s beach boys gig; my glasses are fucking expensive. despite my aerial view, i am still able to confirm that tyler, the creator is a superstar in waiting. yeah, he’s got the whole thing about slightly unsuitable lyrics for heart fm holding him back, but he will be a superstar.

the entire collective performed a pretty impressive, if slightly disjointed, set with each and every one of them bringing something to the table. hodgy stood out for me, but i’ve spoken to others who have said domo genesis and mike g did the same job for them. that’s the beauty of odd future. there is something for everybody.

the highlights of the gig all centered around tyler though. tyler and his broken leg. whether he was calling the guy in the purple shirt who threw a shoe up to get a beating from hodgy beats (and then advising him not to actually come up) or sitting there deciding what song to do next as there was no playlist, tyler had the crowd in the palm of his hand. he even stage dived, broken leg and all. i’ll repeat. stage dived with a broken leg. he came across a lot more human than i imagined he would. he joked. he chatted. he is one enigmatic mother fucker. he also has a new fan in emma.

any negatives? a couple. there was no frank ocean (and therefore no ‘she’ or ‘novacane’). the shoe throwing incident happened in the middle of ‘splatter’ and that was therefore cut short. it also meant that my favourite line was missed completely – “somebody tell satan that i want my fucking swag back”. these were minor though and if everybody had been there i have no idea how the (particularity energetic) crowd would have fitted into the tight venue.

this review has gone all over the place so i’ll sum it up. tyler is going to be huge. talent and personality go a long way.

update: i meant to coin the phrase hipster hop at some point in this review but forgot

this is pretty much perfect timing. i was going to blog about how brilliant tyler, the creator‘s remix of lykke li’s ‘i follow rivers’ was today anyway. now i can also mention the performance on jimmy fallon last night.

for those that don’t know, tyler is the main man of rap collective odd future wolf gang kill them all. they’re a bunch of young rapeprs who are about to take the world by storm. they rap about rape, drugs, sex, violence and everything that the daily mail will hate. i get confused as to which members are in which internal group and who’s been sent to boarding school. this is where wikipedia helps.

tyler’s work on lykke li is fantastic and shows that they aren’t just all about being controversial. download it now. love it. then watch the video from last night. and remember how fucking cool mos def is as well. “swag swag swag”.

you should definetley follow tyler on twitter as well (unless you’re one of those easily offended types). you need to know why he can’t be a moose because he’s lost his shoes. and similar stories.