Too Many T's - Running Wild EP (2014)

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You may know Too Many T's from London. Leon and Roos bring an oximoron to the rap scene: they are making fresh old school hiphop music. "That actually sells." I wrote about their previous EPs here and about a month ago they released their next chapter of their history the Running Wild EP. The whole stuff is free on their website but they won't say a wrong word if you can support them with a few pounds. Anyway, let's see the Runing Wild before you go mental and run wild because of my regular bullshit. (Bullshit is after the embed EP! [: )






Salt shaker is a great intro, it summons Gramatik and the electronic hiphop scene. Scratching and sampling is just awesome, unfortunately the intro takes only one minute. The Realness is a boom track, a must to listen to. You can hear how Leon's and Ross' voice develpoed, it is clearer, they articulate better. The instruments are heavy kind of Wiley beats. The Same Thing starts with afro-funky beats and then you got real hiphop about diversity. 1992 pt. II. uses Main Source's Fakin the Funk and cuts by Featurecast, that must be enough to start the track. You can find two skit on the EP, Beatbox is okay but Simon's attitdue to rap music and his monolouge is crazy - it can be a real meme like the trader's speech in 1 Hét (HU short movie). In Better Bug you get a classic cooperative rap track where everyone have a verse - anyway I would have put this track at the end of the EP as a grand finale. Running Wild gave the name of the EP and it is not my favourite one but it is just a matter of time. I wish there were more rap tracks like Skee-Lo's I Wish nowadays...and Too Many T's made it with Wish I never. It seems Too Many T's did a favour for Simon because they made a track about drugs too, especially marijuana - lyrics is sick!

Summa summarum: the Running Wild is a great rap EP, after the Earl Necks & Round Grey remix mixtape and The T.P. EP this time the balance is perfect between the vocals and the instruments (ftw who did the mastering!). I think the EP has only one disadvantage, it is a digital release, no vinyl. :(

If you can't get enough of them, and also don't have the chance to go to their next concert (that means you live outside of the UK) just tune on Soho Radio London because they regularly have a show once a month: classic hiphop, and some fresh Too Many T's sound. For more info follow them on SoundCloud and Facebook.

Jefe