Although strictly speaking from down the road in high wycombe, MCM (on the left in the pic above) went to amersham college so we could justifiably claim him as ‘hometown homeboy’ number one.

He used to come and hang at some of the nights we used go to at ‘club stages’ and was generally a very humble, chilled out dude. It seems like a far away time when a uk hiphop track could make the charts-I can still remember watching the super low budget video to ‘I’m Ready‘, (with an even then ridiculous westwood cameo) over and over.

It’s strange in our rush to embrace all things ‘golden age’ how it easily we have overlooked such a seminal album. Local connections and rose-hued nostalgia for summers on roofs have no doubt blunted my critical facilities but I rate this as the equal to any uk hiphop before or since.(and I don’t care how good the observer thinks the new dizzie rascal album is gonna be) Classic breaks and a great flow, it’s as closest thing we have to a ‘step in the arena‘ and should be talked off in similarly hushed tones.

If you aren’t already acquainted, may I present…

an introduction to a caveman