I Love Lily

This week my faith in the record buying public has been restored. The Prodigy look set for the Top 10 and in the US Eminem's fun comeback single Crack a Bottle (ft. Dre and Fiddy of course) has gone to number one.

Lily Allen's smart pop record It's Not Me, It's You has had incredible first week sales and will be number one on Sunday. Deservedly so.

Everyone's At It is a cool critique of drug users and drug problems- which somehow doesn't sound hypocritcal. 22 sees Lily hitting back (gently) at her media critics and justifying her behaviour. While Who'd Of Known is an equal sequel to Littlest Things and also rip off of Take That's Shine.

In short it's the best album of 09 so far. And she's just a bit cute too.

The Prodigy & Big Daddy Kane

The Prodigy recently covered for Zane Lowe on Radio 1 and played a couple of new tracks plus some influences. My fellow Essex boys were awul hosts and definitely not radio DJs but they played some stonking tunes.

Their album comes out very soon and sadly the copy I have is so encoded it won't play on any stereo or pc. Anyway hopeully they will rock it again after the relatively unsuccesful Always Outnumbered.

On the show Liam said his favourite period of hip hop was 89-91 and it certainly shows in his production. And they played Big Daddy Kane whose beats mostly came from Marley Marl and Prince Paul.

MP3: BIG DADDY KANE- It's Hard Being The Kane