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Review: The Best Policy - Disciple DI - Digital Only
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Reviewed by Andrew Midgley
Promise, aka Jason Jamal Shepherd, loves playing Monopoly and spending time with his family, giving him a paternal perspective that informs the themes on TellAVision . The EP is about stories media tells and the impressions they make on people in our youth , says Shepherd, whose desire is to supplant such cultural ephemera with the truth that everyone is uniquely created . be true to who you are. Don t fall into the lies and deceptions of society nor the trends of the world, but be true to who you were created to be. Though this sounds a bit like chicken soup for the soul, Shepherd is far more than vapid inspirational quotes. His unmatched work-ethic - praise from fellow Toronto rapper Drake, no less - comes across in his attention to style as well as content: A succession of delightful earworm loops provide a kind of trademark, from the pogoing riff on Why Don t You to Alleyway s guitar sample, and despite its brevity, the number of collaborator
Reviewed by Andrew Midgley
Stormzy s explosive, much-hyped debut album has the most first-week streams for a number one in chart history at just shy of 14 million; it was the first grime album to top the national charts with sales of over 69,000. Humorous and self-depreciating lyrically ( I was in the O2 singing my lungs out/Rudeboy, you re never too big for Adele ) it is Michael Omari s energetic, capering delivery that truly engages on the best tracks here, and while the video for Shut Up - a visual synecdoche of this album - appears intimidating and confrontational, it is abundantly clear that Stormzy and his posse are having fun. All their blustering braggadocio is given and received with irony, all the deliberately obscure references - and liberal expletives - are verbal graffiti of memories and ingroup identifiers; a catechism of gang signs.