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Heathens

Jehst

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Format: 12"

Cat No: YNR079EP

Release Date:  04 December 2020

Label:  Ynr Productions / YNR Productions

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  195081906270

Genres:  Rap & Hip-Hop  

  • Description

    While UK hip-hop has long bowed down to his majesty, Jehst is now addressing ‘Heathens’
    directly, four tracks of venerable penmanship and riposte that includes two recent drops that
    have kept fans in thrall of “the best British rapper of all time� (NME) and his ceaseless reserves of unequivocal syllables.

    “Still rock the Nuke Proof�, a chugging, deconstructed funk mosaic from Bastien Keb hangs
    ‘Heathens’ on the razor blade-sharp shrug of the shoulders. Riding the carousel revolutions
    as he endorses a “tailor-made rhyme style, wake-and-bake lifestyle�, Jehst ducks and
    weaves between the gaps of the track until he’s on the verge of making it a religious
    experience.

    Jaisu’s frothy jazz vapours for April’s ‘420 Every Day’ nudge along playful rhymes with mic
    remaining on red alert, before Pitch 92 teases a 10 below red rag on the lectern-trashing
    ‘State of the Union’. Subsequently a vein starts to pop on ‘Body Bag’, a dislocated, zero
    gravity freeze ray fired by Jetsun. As adept at making sure he’s “getting paid in full: Eric B &
    Rakim� as he is at taking orders for toe tags, Billy Brimstone’s psychedelic phlegm comes
    Michelin-starred: “You’re duck soup, I’m the pot-boiler / You’re ‘bout to see the end sooner
    than you want, like a plot spoiler�.

    Bio
    Long “at the forefront of UK hip-hop� (The Guardian) as “the UK’s most natural rhymer who
    simply doesn’t waste words� (Clash), Jehst’s career has spanned the pre-millennium
    ‘Premonitions’, his enduring YNR imprint that has housed the homegrown sovereignty
    Kashmere, Cappo, Micall Parknsun and Verb T, and his last album, 2017’s ‘Billy Green is
    Dead’, described as a "a qualified triumph" by The Wire magazine.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Heathens
      • 2. 420 Every Day
      • 3. State of the Union (Freestyle)
      • 4. Body Bag