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1) DoubleThink. It’s a shock to the system - a sonic kick to the groin delivered with force and precision by someone trained in music’s equivalent of deadly martial arts. It’s not often that an album comes along that shares debts to Radiohead, Aphex Twin and Depeche Mode as strongly as to Public Enemy, the Wu-Tang Clan and Rakim, but the 26-year-old rapper, label-owner, and educator Kingslee Daley has made it his life’s work to challenge preconceptions and buck prevailing trends; and he isn’t the sort to allow himself to be fitted into any kind of mould.
Breaking down the culture of cliché and stereotype that smothers the genre he loves is a major part of the mission he’s taken on, and gives impetus to this third album of pointed, perceptive hip hop music from the convention-defying emcee.
At first glance, Akala is someone straight outta hip hop central casting. The often angry child of a broken home, his schooling was punctuated by rows with teachers. After teenage years spent playing football (he was on the schoolboy books of both West Ham United and Wimbledon), he dropped out of college. Aged 12 he saw his best friend’s brother get a meat cleaver in the back of the head while sitting in the chair in a barber’s shop, a tale touched on in the DoubleThink track Find No Enemy. “What interests me, looking back now, is that nobody stopped cutting hair,” he says. “Even though I hadn’t seen that before, I just accepted. I’d heard so much and knew so many people who’d been shot or stabbed that it was just a part of life.”
At first glance, Akala is someone straight outta hip hop central casting. The often angry child of a broken home, his schooling was punctuated by rows with teachers. After teenage years spent playing football (he was on the schoolboy books of both West Ham United and Wimbledon), he dropped out of college. Aged 12 he saw his best friend’s brother get a meat cleaver in the back of the head while sitting in the chair in a barber’s shop, a tale touched on in the DoubleThink track Find No Enemy. “What interests me, looking back now, is that nobody stopped cutting hair,” he says. “Even though I hadn’t seen that before, I just accepted. I’d heard so much and knew so many people who’d been shot or stabbed that it was just a part of life.”
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Featured Tracks
| FULL TRACK Bonus Track: The Edge (Mikey J Remix) | 4:21 |
| FULL TRACK Why Do Featuring Ms. Dynamite | 9:05 |
| FULL TRACK Hold Your Head Up Featuring Selah | 3:22 |
| Cold | 3:19 |
| This is London | 3:21 |
| Carried Away | 3:35 |
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charstebbing wrote:
moiiiiiist.
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lakretino wrote:
this is London!
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Smexy_Kream wrote:
Loving the hell out of the Freedom Lasso album. He seems like a great guy, too.
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AntwonTheGreat wrote:
This guy is a legend, I used to chat to him on Myspace back before he was famous. He was always up for a chat about music and that, glad to see him with a few albums behind his back. He needs to be much more popular though, criminally underrated is spot on.
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FelixRami wrote:
its like shakespeare with a nigga twist
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Wonder_Showzen wrote:
Criminally underrated.
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IdrisKor wrote:
His Fire In the Booth on Charlie Sloths show, and F64 (sbtv) is unbelievably good, he is very intelligent and incredibly talented for anyone who hasn't heard it Akala - Fire In The Booth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEOKgjoxoto Akala - F64 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsZZ8caB5dw KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
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HeartAnemic wrote:
God damnnn how the fuck did I not know about this until today :O. Fucking amazing.
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Jack_the_System wrote:
7 minutes and 50 seconds of Akala spitting poetry and 52 seconds of the DJ using an imaginary fire extinguisher... http://validate-me.blogspot.com/2011/09/august-passedpast.html
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astralvoid wrote:
First time I've heard Akala. Exactly what hip-hop should be to my mind, he points out a lot of what is wrong in a world where we have plenty of problems and try to shelter ourselves by being spoiled and ignoring the bigger picture. I think, in Akala's words, that's bullshit. Massive respect, I hope you bring people together and can change people's narrow minded perceptions dude, and I wish you all the best :)
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BleedTheMartyr wrote:
Akala is either the future or he gets killed for speaking too much truth. [2]
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le_shambles wrote:
holy fuck this guy is awesome
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bigbarz wrote:
grime one of the worst genre's? some faggot flex
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cokeboy2 wrote:
Big respect for this guy, saw him supporting Ice Cube not so long back and he sure can MC even without the music to back him up.
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Doom1313 wrote:
Akala fans might (or not) like Desolate Onez socially Conscious UK Hip Hop http://www.last.fm/music/Desolate+Onez?fb_ref=sharebar&fb_source=home_oneline http://www.facebook.com/pages/Desolate-Onez/188377611203363
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Brownycakes wrote:
I got a sonic kick of education, from this artist...
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Davviid wrote:
Akala deserves a lot more attention than he gets.
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HatebreederCoB wrote:
Only heard 3 of his songs[which were pretty good] and they definitely weren't grime. didn't know he used to make grime. One of the worst genres there is imo.
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bigbarz wrote:
how can it be an insult if he used to make grime you cunt
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Find No Enemy
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Yours And My Children
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SB.TV F64 [S2.EP2] - Akala
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22 Aug 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/akalamusic
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