Sunday 7th November 2010

ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL – “SLOW IT DOWN”

There is nothing in themselves that I hate about the young. It is simply that youth is a cipher for my own transience, an expression of my own cosmically deigned obsolescence. The relentless unerring rebirth of the world is a reminder of all the time wasted doing nothing on the way to being nothing at all. Youth is the view from falling behind.

When various members( notably minus Earl Sweatshirt) of LA hip hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All take to the stage at their debut UK show at The Drop in London on Friday just gone, it’s clear that they’re just babies. Already an internet darling that I’m miles behind writing about now, they’re knee deep in bloggers while still knee deep to grasshoppers. They’re here surrounded by record labels, because Odd Future do not waste time, brandishing their youth like the weapons they hype on about. Because for all their dubious lyrical content that skirts the usual gangster concerns, they’re biggest threat is their age. Odd Future have only just started and you’re already playing catch up in a race you’ve lost.

“Slow It Down” is from the first mixtape – The Fucking Tape -  and is a Tyler jam, because beyond seemingly being the figurehead of the collective, the boy’s an elastic face that’s equal parts cartoon and horrorshow. Just like the chopped and screwed verses here. Just like Odd Future.

Tyler Creator feat Hodgy Beats – “Slow It Down”

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