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Clavish’s first certification :yahoo:

A shame he is currently in jail… that will impact the release week and its just a bad look regardless. His core fans however will hopefully still support anyway. I’m really looking forward to this anyway. Off the back of Nines CC2 release and a Fredo album to drop later this year, that lane of UK road rap is in good hands.

Literally on the first listen I was like mehhhhh. But this has grown on me massively. I really like it.

If Nines’ last release Crabs In A Bucket did circa 13k first week (correct me if I’m wrong) then its looking unlikely he can surpass Lottery Winners if they are currently at circa 14k.

Nines’ album has got mixed reviews from what I’ve seen on Twitter and TikTok. On a first listen I’ve had, I would agree with those saying it’s not his best project and hasn’t moved me as much as Crabs In A Bucket did. I wonder whether this will slightly harm his streaming numbers as the replay value throughout the week will fall from his core fans/audience.

The video and flow on this one reminds me of his Straight Rymez days, little bit of a miss for me even so.

Really excited for this one. Pre ordered and got my pre order on Merch as well. Since he's said it will be his final album, hoping it can be his best!

Love it. The track is well put together, Missy's feature is still growing on me but I think it can rise a bit further naturally and maybe with a TikTok boost as well.

Still waiting for this to grow on me tbh. It just sounds a bit too reserved for Digga. But nonetheless I'm happy it delivered his 7th Top 20. Looking forward to possibly Grey Tracky with Ivorian Doll coming out (if they get the sample cleared) and his debut album which is supposed to come this summer.

Potter Payper's Training Day 3 going Silver means a lot, that project touched me. Delighted for him. :)

Meanwhile I'm still waiting on the Central Cee x Dave collab ugh. Guess he is taking bridging the American gap serious.

I've listened to it a couple of times now and it's starting to grow on me. Overall I'm really interested to see what ArrDee does and goes with his sound now, one fairly successful mixtape down and what not.

This has grown on me, but it's still missing something in my opinion. Hopefully the next "single" will be better.

Slightly late to this but alas another great project again from Simz. Broken is one of my favourite UK rap songs of all time. The lyricism, production, harmonies just do wonders for my ear. The production from Inflo throughout the album was again brilliant. My other two favourite tracks are Silhouette and Angel. It breaks my heart that this didn't have anywhere near the same chart success as SIMBI, as it in my view is almost just as good.

"Who's babysitting tonight then?" :rolleyes:

"This was a massive hit on Tik Tok" :rolleyes:

What a shame that About Damn Time didn't win best international song.

Becky Hill thanking Polydor 2 sentences after giving credit to RAYE :lol: bless her though.

I guess Aitch is more deserving than Stormzy or Dave for the past year in the genre so I'm not mad.

I really wish some UK hip-hop/rap artists in particular would release exclusive extra music off the back of a decent hit single. But again I'm realistic about this being about supply and demand sadly. Physical consumption is not as high a trait in my favourite genre of music also. It's why I do make a thing of buying physical albums now that singles are gone.

Better than Let Go but not a patch on Mrs. I find it interesting and baffling he still has not dropped the collab with Fredo or Dave that he has in the bank. I'm sure Ybeez (Central Cee's manager) knows the importance of having a big hit like that before he drops his debut album later this year so why are they persisting with singles like this... beggars belief.

S Club Party and Reach were staples in my early childhood. Fingers crossed the former can achieve platinum one day!

Gutted that it seems RAYE is not going to make it.

Strandz's "Us Against the World" has been appearing quite a lot on my TikTok feed. I also read that Digga D could possibly be joining on a remix of that soon. Not a massive fan of the track generally and I don't think Digga would sound good on it anyway.

Aitch would work well with them I think! Same, it does appear they are giving this a good go. I genuinely think the project will sound great.