I dunno why anyone would sample Nightshift by the Commodores. At least Uptown Girl is actually quite a good song. Sheesh. Whatever happened to those innocent days when Dog-Z used to do his own tunes without ripping off other people's tunes? Things like "Who The Fuck Wanna Fuck With Me". Ah, more innocent times.

Some current listening. These are all on deep rotation, which is "one louder" than heavy rotation. Lammas Nights Laments (14 CDs) Songs Of Green Pheasant Newham Generas sets on Rinse Lagos Cut Up (Honest Jon's afro-beat and very good) George Delerue's soundtracks fo Francois Truffaut films

Went to see De La Soul at the Jazz Cafe the other day, for free, like. They're ambling, amiable and rather low key in demeanour, and you have to remind yourself that De La that in Three Feet High they're responsible for an absolute masterpiece, and one of the very best albums of the 80s. Their new material sounds pretty standard, nothing really distinctive about it. What they've lost, and what makes 3FH, in contrast, so incredible, is the closeness of the voices, where you can catch every inflection and emotion (there's none of that in the new stuff). Posdenous' inquisitive cadences, Mase's perplexed ramblings. I'd tell you more about the new stuff, but I really can't remember too much about it. They bigged up "real hip hop", whatever that is. Kinda like The Groundhogs bigging up real blues, and then launching into note perfect retro boogie. Strange place the Jazz Cafe isn't it? A good shaped venue for hip hop and jazz, but it's very awareness of this "goodness" makes it rather self-satisfied- "this is the space for real music". I wish Roll Deep would play there, I'd pay money to see that.

"I should of saw it coming, but I was blinded- by the long hard hours that I'm grinding"

Sharky Major is back and sounding on good form on Logan's show. His first line rhymes "Sama" with "Panorama", and that's without any warm-ups or anything. Dense stuff, go and decode it.

Continuing on the cricket theme, Discarda has got a lyric about the Barmy Army. Imagine him shouting "Discarda, Barmy Army! Roll Deep, Barmy Army!" a lot and you're more or less there.

Wiley is the grime Glen McGrath, nagging away at the off stump with his immaculate line and length one line flows- "I know hustler, hustler says he don't know you, I know forty eight, forty eight says he don't know you". Once again he caught Adam B just nibbling at a stray metaphor, only to be caught by Flo Dan in the gully. Still some controversy as to whether Jammaint Jones really deserves a full membership of the England entourage- getting his place as much for his producing as much as his MCing, his carnival cricket style in the forth test got him caught going for the big reload.