One of the many things I love about Damon Albarn is that he stands in firm opposition to things, and then promptly does the same sort of thing himself, only the right way. It’s too easy to sit back and sneer at the state of modern popular music and congratulate yourself that your...

Oh come on, throw me a bone here, people! I LIKE you! I like BOTH of you! I was listening to ‘Boom Boom Pow’ only this morning, after a relatively long absence from the thing, and marvelling yet again at just how perfect a production it is. That wailing whooshy noise that runs...

‘We was sitting there, vibing on the verses,’ Jeezy tells Mixtape Daily of making the Darkside track.By Shaheem Reid Fat Joe Photo: EMI The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive Young Jeezy was always going to be on Fat Joe’s The Darkside; he just wasn’t always on...

I know it’s just a loop, I know it’s just a 2-second thing Timbaland put on the track to lift it a bit, and give that heartbump bass a bit of a lift, but I have two things to say on the subject of the go-go bell that this song has running through it like the veins in a...

There is a bit at the beginning of the video here which looks disturbingly like the sweat of Tinie’s brow flying off his face and forming a ring around his head, a bit like the rings of Saturn. This presents several joke opportunities, which, if you’ll indulge me a second, I am...