Nextmen, The - Get Over It

Amazing that in 2004 I still see comments on international message boards mocking the ieda of UK hiphop... they obviously never picked up albums like this.

It's heavy, with deep basses and hard beats fit for the floor; it's packed with great mcing; and it sounds fresh as hell, like nothing else. It's great party music, but both the rhymes and music are intelligent and witty at the same time. In short, it's a great hiphop record.

The CD draws on a range of styles along straightup hiphop, including dancehall, smoky downtempo, even 8 bit arcade sounds on the album's finest track "High Score", which gives Reprazent's MC Dynamite a chance to prove just how talented and flexible he is. The tracks with Penultimate are also especially outstanding, and elsewhere UK hiphop stalwarts like Ty and Rodney P don't disappoint.

For me, the only that lets it down is the skits, which are boring and stupid, as on almost every hiphop album ever. But overall I can't recommend this too strongly to anyone into their hiphop.