We’ve been promised one day of sun this summer. One fucking day. For cardboard yielding, city loving breakers; this is far from mint. As you really can’t beat breakin outside. But whether you leave your cardboard at home and still bravely uprock on some concrete in the rain. Or you swipe in the shelter of your homes or floor spaces. Let your surroundings disappear. Let is just be you, your nike airs and DJ IQ with Dubbledge. And with this track you’ll see some sun. You’ll grow some wings.
And you’ll fly away.
Still, it was inevitable that I was gona pick up on the absence of that hard ass drumbeat, the kind of beat I found myself yourself expecting after the first few bars. Infact, the rhythm is pretty consistent. There’s no exciting fills or dramatic differences within the song. This kind of works as the floating beats themselves and the vocals kind of hold it down. You could try bboy to it. For how long I’m not sure because after a while you’re going to want something harder. More violent. More abrupt.
That KABOOM that stops you leaving the club just yet. Or pulls you away from the bar because you can’t resist being on the floor for this one song and you need it to be a group experience.
9 to 5 doesn’t have that.
You’re experiencing flight. But not with Easyjet, 50 odd other people and some fucking robotic orange faces stewardess’, with some arrogant twat you’ll never meet controlling your flight patterns. It’s with your own pair of brightly adicolored wings.
And it’s hella smooth. Doubledge has this flow that you want to physically feel, with him by your side on the dancefloor. He’s no philosophical genius. He’s a careless, laid back geezer.
The thing that gives me some faith in the success of this record is the way the title idea ‘9 to 5’ (which you must have heard on a million other records, hip hop or not), is presented in a whole new light. Basically, it’s because it’s presented with light. Instead of the usual dark and dreary attitude. It’s dreamy and optimistic. It’s just another interpretation on something everyone has had some kind of experience of. And it’s open to your interpretations. You don’t literally have to sit back, close your eyes and with the slight smile I picture IQ and Dubbledge have, imagine flying through some gorgeous blue sky spinning vinyls and rainbows.
Without work.
Without stress.
Without rules and regulations.
For me, the equivalent would be breakin ,drumming, spraying… That’s my idea of flight, escape, meditation if you will.
Taggers. Picture that perfect Ramo, country travelling white train. An endless supply of montanas and nighttime.
Flatlanders. Just you, your bmx Trevor, and a sky high rooftop.
Nobody and nothing else. That’s the soul deep feeling I’m talking about. That’s why I can’t stop smiling and daydreaming right now.
And this is the beautiful thing the record reminds us of. How lucky we are to have something like this. To have hip hop and the freedom it offers us amidst our restricted, monotonous and discriminating society.
*Nino*
[tags] hiphop, hip hop, DJ IQ, Dubbledge [/tags]
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