I've no idea! He had that track Don't You Dare floating around in 2014 which was supposed to lead #Black but it flopped & the album never saw the light of day.

Loved 'There She Goes' sooo much more than 'Troublemaker', and I also adored his song 'Fast Car' :wub: :wub:

Super Bass, Take Care and Read All About It are my highlights from what I caught Up on

 

'Party All Night (Sleep All Day)' is a guilty Pleasure song for me as I have fond memories of it from The Inbetweeners :music:

Skepta "Hold On" | 08/01/12

 

 

This debuted at #31 in the chart in the second week of 2012, and this was before Skepta got really famous, so that was pretty impressive. A quite moving chorus combines with a really snarly grime theme, and some pretty decent verses from Skepta.

 

This was standard 2012 stuff if I'm honest - not as good as any grime we get these days (Skeptas verses are a lot more advanced these days) but this a really nice track with a nice meaning.

 

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He should have released this when the London 2012 Olympics were on. He had have a couple of hits before this with 'Bad Boy', 'Rescue Me' and 'Cross My Heart' with EastEnders actress Preeya Kalidas.

 

 

Big fan of Skepta but that's not one of his best. Rescue Me from around that time was far superior & of course all of his recent efforts.

Pitbull "International Love" (feat. Chris Brown) | 08/01/12

 

 

This track debuted outside of the top 40 in the second week of 2012. A track that's maybe slightly more 2011 than 2012, but this is frankly a massive tune - a really great few verses from Pitbull and a really soaring chorus from Chris Brown. Maybe some parts of the track are slightly underwhelming, but this was one of Mr Worldwides better songs.

 

I wish we could have some more music like this these days :wub:

 

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Edited October 5, 20168 yr by twentyonemdh

Azaelia Banks "212" (feat. Lazy Jay) | 08/01/12

 

 

Well wasn't this different :heehee:. One of the most prominent rap tracks of the year for all the wrong reasons, but if you can look past the slightly... fruitful language this is actually a great song. This raised all sorts of questions, like "is this going to be the normality in 5 years time"? Five years later, it's not the normality :lol: (luckily).

 

I love the trumpets in this, such a massive tune even with the swearing!

 

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'212' remains brilliant, such a unique chart smash :heart:

 

'International Blegh' tho :no:

'212' was and still is iconic.

 

'International Love' was good but pretty generic now. Solid tune though from Pitbull and Chris Brown. Did Pitbull realise what he was doing on 2:58 in the video by the way?

 

 

 

 

 

Ah 212, nice memories of Nick Grimshaw's nighttime show a couple of months before it charted when he started playing it a lot and it became my personal chart number 1.

 

I was quite a fan of Jumanji by her too.

Snoop Dogg "Young, Wild & Free" (feat. Wiz Khalifa & Bruno Mars) | 15/01/12

 

 

So we move into week three of 2012, and this is a pretty decent track that entered just outside the top 40. The raps in this kind of remind me of Macklemore, and I quite enjoyed the chilled vibe of this track. It's infectious and Bruno's laid-back vocals compliment Snoop and Wiz's raps.

 

Obviously nearly five years later Snoop has resorted to shit like Sucker For Pain :puke:

 

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Edited October 8, 20168 yr by twentyonemdh

Snoop? thought it was Wiz Khalifa on 'Sucker For Pain'.

 

 

Oops. Yep, you're right.

Professor Green "Never Be A Right Time" - 15/01/12



A track from Pro Green that's got indie influences mixed with his usual emotional rap parts and a slightly underwhelming chorus, this is one of his worse songs, I've found. Some decent verses here but this track debuted outside the top 40 in January 2012, for a song that does sound relatively radio friendly it'll probably be regarded as a 'flop'.

In the end this peaked at #35 and spent 5 weeks in the top 40.

It was a very disappointing follow-up to a #1 but he followed THAT up with something much better *.*

It was a very disappointing follow-up to a #1 but he followed THAT up with something much better *.*

 

Remedy is my favourite Pro Green song! Will do a more in depth comment soon, but some of the throwbacks here... :wub:

'Never Be A Right Time' was OK from Professor Green this featured Ed Drewett I believe did it? Hasn't aged well though this.

JME "96 f***ries" | 22/01/12

 

 

This track entered the charts at #41, and fell out the week after. That's a bit unfortunate :lol: Anyway, you can't deny how much of a massive tune this is - I strongly encourage you to give it a listen, some really cool bars from JME and the music video is interesting too. This was before JME got 'big', before the days of 'Can You Hear Me?', which'll obviously be appearing later on in this reveal.

 

I wish he'd come back with something similar to this, it still sounds current to this day.

 

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Just commenting now, I actually like the Sean Kingston - Sleep All Day (Party All Night) because of the 00s eurodance style production.