Accentuates the lolloping Jamaican flex at Rodney Smith’s musical heart.
With two years passing since last studio offering Slime & Reason, it seemed the alternative remix-dominated lineage running concurrently alongside Roots Manuva’s regular discography was at an end. Not so fast. Having carved a successful career comparatively rendering most UK rappers tedious amateurs, the eccentric standard-setting south Londoner born Rodney Smith was merely formulating a fittingly inspired angle.
Enter producer Wrongtom, fellow London lad and, until now, best known as a recurring Hard-Fi collaborator, wrestling control for the most cohesive Roots Manuva re-rub record to date. Tom isn’t a complete bolt from the blue: a limited Slime & Reason bonus disc comprised several of his mixes. But this isn’t a simple expansion of that project.
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