EXCLUSIVE BLACK ANT BEAT TAPE

With Natural Numbers (hopefully temporarily) retiring, it looks as though Black Ant has no challenger to the “Young, Innovative & Really Awesome Heavyweight Champion of the World” belt. Ant kindly laced this exclusive beat tape for us at Meal Deal this week, and despite clocking in at only 4 minutes, this is the shit that you should be bumping on your i-Tunes this week, regardless of the fact that new DOOM album dropped yesterday. As Ant says himself “teachers know me for it. students bob they heads to it. bitch niggas try to mock, and recreate, but no one appreciates. cause them niggas ain't black ant. Face of a champion”

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BLACK ANT

It’s pretty much impossible to approach the concept of left-field, instrumental hip-hop without thinking of the late J Dilla, and although it’s more than likely that Black Ant owns a well-worn copy of ‘Donuts’, it’s also more than likely that Black Ant has a really bad case of weed psychosis too. This is hip-hop with one foot in the thuggish aesthetics of the Diplomats, and the other in the grainy, no-fi, soundscapes last heard coming out of the broken sampler of the newly re-christened DOOM.

Head over to Black Ant’s MySpace, now to download a whole world of shit...