Kano - Puppets and Strings Produced by The Zombie Kids Review

I have been waiting for a new track from Kano for a while, and with his latest release he hasn’t disappointed. This tune is pure genius, lyrically and production wise, (produced by Zombie Kids) the hook of this track is off the wall, if you want to learn how to do a hook properly then pay attention to this one. When it drops it makes me want to rip my shirt of and start doing mad Labyrinth skanks (it really does expect the ripping the shirt of part)

If you're a Kano fan then the lyrics of the song will resonant with you strongly. In true Slick Rick style he tells of his career to date the highs, the lows and his future wants and wishes he doesn’t hold back it’s an honest account, a artist pouring his heart out I feel the tears and heart he put into this track.  A lot of people have compared this to his highly revived track ‘Layer Cake’ in terms of the lyrical content and message.  They are diversely different in terms of the beat, Layer Cake was very sombre, Puppets and Strings is a lot more up tempo with the hook which will make you want to get up and skank.

You can listen and download the track for free off Kano’s official Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/therealkano/kano-puppets-strings

The internet makes people say stupid stuff: Vol 1

The internet is a place that brings out the Mr Hyde in us. In public we're nice as pie benevolent people of the highest nature at home on the internet, we're creepy perverts sending cock pics to girls who never asked for one. In this blog entry I will be dissecting the stupid stuff people say on the internet

I will hazard a guess that maybe her choice of men is the reason why she is 37, single, not married and putting her pin on a website for any stranger to add.

The Youth of today such gentlemen

The saying she isn't asking for much in a man has never rang truer 

This guy has killa girl game

Yep you can just pop to Westfields and buy one darling

Girls that wear Beanie Hats

If you see a chick and she is wearing a Beanie she probably

Likes House Music

She probably jumped on the House music bandwagon, when Funky House died out.  Now all you can hear her talking about is cutting shapes….this time next year she probably won’t even be listening to house.

She can be seen regularly in Shoreditch, Hackney, Dalston

If she left any of these areas she would probably get a nosebleed, and the only time she does leave is to go to Stratford Westfield to buy more beanies

She knocks back Ket and MDMA likes its Lambrini

Yeah pretty much self-explanatory

She dances weird

That will be the all the Ket and MDMA she has taken, making her cut shapes like she's having an epileptic fit

She’s a Sweaty mess

Skanking out wearing a beany equals a sweat-fest

Probably has Nike Blazers to give with the beanie

And a pair of Jordans......yep she is a Fad Whore

Because you wear a pair of Nike Air Maxs now doesn't make you trendy

Because you wear a pair of Nike Air Maxs doesn't automatically make you trendy. I'm seeing people rocking them like they have just come out like they are a new brand of trainer. You have come late to the party all the hot girls have vacated. Guys in the manor (endz, the bits, the hood whatever you want to call it) have been rocking a Air Maxs’ from day dot certain guys come out off the womb in a pair of Air Max's

Now you have EVERY sweaty smelly hipster from Shoreditch to Dalston and EVERY doughnut Essex boy with their extra small sized t-shirts strangling themselves with their top button of their shirts done up to moronic orange skinned Essex birds rocking them literally battering them to death like CHAVs’ did with Lyle and Scott

We have peeps jumping on this bandwagon because some moron of the tele who goes out in ski goggles wears them. In all honesty I have never been an Air max fan too black for me like playing basketball, breakdancing and any other black stereotype.

I'm joking just used that to set up my next paragraph that air Max's are hood trainers they are associated as an integral part of the rude boy uniform. From way way back when. I don't know where I'm going with this paragraph but you get the jest. (Lazy writing)

Who knows maybe TN's will come back in fashion

Modern Love

I don’t believe in the notion of a soul mate or the one. I think there are many potential ‘soul mates’ (hate that term) out there for us. It’s all about timing and the right moment. So basically when you have your shit together, grown tired of sleeping with random women or men or just matured like a fine red wine.

How do you know you have met your Lois Lane?

If you know me, you will know I love comic books, if you don’t know – Lois Lane is Superman’s woman and is one of pop cultures endearing romances, but I digress. So how do you know you have met your Lois Lane? Here is a checklist

• He/she puts up with the stupid annoying shit you do and you can put up with theirs too. 
• He/she makes you want to be a better person 
• You enjoy spending time with them even when sex isn’t on the menu 
• You’re able to learn of each other 

That’s it really (in my opinion)

Girls that wear Snapbacks and Jordans

You look mint darling

Stop it really please stop it. Ok I can’t say  that as one mans rubbish is another mans treasure. Some guys like girls to dress up like they belong in ‘Boy Better Know’ but me no. I like girls to dress like girls not like hood-rat guys.

You're so artistic a modern day Da Vinci

When I see a girl in a snapback or Jordans. I literally do shake my head. I haven’t got anything against girls who dress like that it’s a free country, you can dress how you like, but it is also a free country to express my opinion, and girls that wear snapbacks and jordans I think look utterly stupid.

Also it’s like all these girls share the same personality:

They all only go for black or mixed race boys

They have all been to Napa

They all think Napa is the best place in the world

They tell you all the time how much they love Napa

They have worked in Napa

I bet you think I am going to do another Napa one…………………Nah

Swagger, Swag, Yolo, started from the bottom now we are here, are phrases they can be find regurgitateting over various social networking sites.

They have Drake as their cover picture on Facebook/twitter with some dumb saying about boys or life.

Why do I dislike girls wearing snapbacks and Jordan’s? bloody heck! where do I start. It’s a combination of the above (the personality of the girls) and the actual visual of them in their Jordan's and Snapbacks. I would be embrassed introducing my girl to my friends who had a snapback and Jordan’s on. I would expect to get a torrent of abuse:

‘What the fuck is your bird wearing? she looks like a little boy’

‘She looks like Tinchy Stryder’ (if she is black)

‘She looks like Professor Green’ (if she is white)

‘She looks like Dappy’ (if she is Asian)

‘She looks like Dappy’ (if she is mixed race)

Call me old school but I like women to dress like a woman.

If you find offence in what I say, you shouldn’t it’s just my opinion and if you found offence then maybe you shouldn’t be dressing like that. If someone said they didn’t like the fashion I follow, I wouldn’t even bat an eye-lid, as I feel comfortable in what I wear and I like it.  If you’ re getting offended then maybe your just one of those un-original persons who just follows trends. 

African soliders who fought during World War 1 and 2

This blog entry is about the forgotten African Soldiers who fought for the British Empire during World War 1 and 2.

If you have ever had the unpleasant experience to hear a racist try and rational their politics you would have heard what fundamentally they base their whole argument on which is this;

 'My grandfathers fought for this country, they would be ashamed of what it has become today it’s not England anymore. Get all the foreigners and immigrants out’

So did many of the so-called foreigners you direct your hate at not only did West Arican soldiers  fight in World War 2 but they also fought in World War 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Regiment

Colonial troops of the 1st Battalion, Nigerian Regiment, about to depart Kaduna for action in German Kamerun (1914).

Troops of the Nigeria Regiment, 3rd West African Brigade (Thunder), boarding a Dakota Transport plane (circa 1943).

Jagama Kello from Ethiopia, middle, left home at just 15 to fight Italian invaders

Major Seth Anthony from Ghana, the first African to gain a King's Commission, 1944

During World War 2 many men from Africa answered the call to fight against fascism, and many died, but their story has barely been told.  It wasn’t till I was in my early 20’s that I found out that Africans came from their homeland to fight in Europe for the allied forces. It was a shock to me. They don’t teach you that in school do they?

In fact, only two in 10 of the soldiers who fought in Burma were white.

‘Nigerians made up more than half of the total force of 90,000 West African soldiers deployed to South East Asia after 1943 as part of the British Army's 81st and 82nd (West Africa) Divisions.’

I am not talking about African Americans. I am talking about Africans. African men enlisted straight from  Africa to fight for the allied forces.In the last few years the BNP have grown regaurating this arguement that, their grandfathers who fought for this country would be angry to see how multi cultural the country has become and that they wouldn’t recognise it no more.  The fascism the BNP preach about is the fascism that their grandfathers alongside African Soldiers fought and died against. Their whole polictics is backwards and contradictory.

I watched a documentary where a elderly white man said this to a camera crew after the BNP knocked on his door handing out leafealts’ he told them to go away. He explained the reason he did so was because,

‘How could he vote for a party who preach the same hate and facism that his father’s generation fought (and died) against during the second world war.

If you want to learn more about African soldiers who fought for the allied forces during the second world war visit these links:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8201717.stm

Nigerians who fought against the Japanese in Burma during World War II.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00sh1lh

First hand accounts from African Soldiers who fought during World War II

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/africa_africa0s_world_war_ii_veterans/html/1.stm

Pictures and memories from Tanzanian and Zimbabwean soliders who fought during world war II

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2009/11/091112_fridaydoc_africasforgottensoldiers.shtml

A programme about Ethiopian’s who fought during World War 2