Crazy Titch - Singalong

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Attention Wiley - THIS is how you do pop-grime properly. Ridiculously twee classical sample, twittering flutes etc with Titch spitting incoherantly over the top. Its like dressing a pitbull up as a poodle and making it dance.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I could have sworn there was a thread on this somewhere but I can't seem to find one...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i want a vocal version of gype that features someone other than titch (not to diss the person who sent this to me on gmail, i'm still v. glad i have it).

― jermaine, Monday, 28 February 2005 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

so why is this kind of production so revered in grime when if a hip hop beat like this came out it would be ignored/maligned for being boring/rockist?

― blunted nitely, Monday, 28 February 2005 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(that isn't meant to be some hip hop vs. grime set-up btw. i love gype, although i still think it sounds just like that busdriver tune from tony hawks!)

― blunted nitely, Monday, 28 February 2005 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

But its the preposterousness of sticking Titch in such a frilly environment that makes it so good. Although I do the prospect of dozens of vocal versions... Dizzee spitting over this would blow the likes of 'Dream' away.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 28 February 2005 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not that preposterous! have you heard "i can c u"?

― blunted nitely, Monday, 28 February 2005 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a pile of Titch up over at the Hut, via the good graces of Chantelle Fiddy.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 February 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

so why is this kind of production so revered in grime when if a hip hop beat like this came out it would be ignored/maligned for being boring/rockist?

boring/r****t?

perhaps you've forgotten busta's "gimme some more"?

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 28 February 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Singalong" is fantastic! I am really loving this POP!grime direction lots of MCs seem to be heading it at speed (see also Kano's album and most of all Lady Sov's "Random"), I can so easily imagine it being on radio and especially in clubs, and it's great to dance around to. Even more POP!grime is the b-side "Everybody" (on my copy it's track 1, which is the actual b-side?) which is pretty reminiscent of "Random". "Gully" is even better though, it's the other b-side with KEISHA SUGABABES and ironically it's the most 'proper' grime of the three, massive bass threatening to swallow up everything in its path and Keisha teetering between riding the beat and subsuming herself into it (Katy Pearl does this amazingly well too).

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

anybody wanna put up a link to this song?

― logiteck, Tuesday, 1 March 2005 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah man this is great, so's the keisha track.

― djdee (djdee2005), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

really sad story about this guy. i'm surprised there's been no real journalism about it in the last couple of years. "talented young musician in prison for crime he may not have committed" is a pretty good story.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6110950.stm

i'm told he wasn't the one holding the gun, fwiw. and that his lawyer was a drunk who's since been fired from his job. but titch got 30 years anyway.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

"i'm told he wasn't the one holding the gun, fwiw."

Like that's really important.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

All those Free Crazy Titch websites that lead with "He's innocent, AND THAT FUCKING RAT CUNT SHOULDN'T HAVE SNITCHED ANYWAY" probably aren't helping his cause, tbh

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

you can get 30 years even if you didn't kill the guy?

it seems to me like the problem with titch wasn't a snitch but a stitch-up.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

tracer did you hear the durrty goodz ep last year? it's terrific and he touches on this a bit

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

You've never heard of being an accessory to the commission of a crime, Tracer?

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

sure, is that what he was chraged with?

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

i think it was manslaughter, actually.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

i didn't hear that EP lex no.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:50 (seventeen years ago)

Uh I'm pretty sure it wasn't manslaughter.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

In fact unless UK law is significantly different than US it seems likely that it was 1st degree murder. Previous threat, sought out the victim, multiple gunshots including at least one where the victim was clearly attempting to flee.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 16:58 (seventeen years ago)

I guess, theoretically Titch could have claimed he had no knowledge of his stepfather's intent (and without having been in the courtroom it's difficult to judge the credibility of that defense or whether his lawyer even attempted to make it) but assuming he was aware (and clearly the jury did) then by my limited understanding of the law in the US, he would be equally culpable.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

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