Delusionists were featured on Charlie Sloth's 1Xtra Show, with DJ Roast opting to chuck Trunk Rattle into the mix.

We're pleased to announce that Delusionists will be supporting the mighty Phi-Life Cypher at Suspect Packages Live next month.

Sounds like a good excuse to get a bit lairy and cop the new Delusionists album Prolusion Plus - out on Monday!

Here's the event details.

Nice little remix EP from Sweatbox Sounds head honcho Vee Kay. Includes a very chilled rehash of Delusionists' Nature's Way as well as cuts from lesser known acts such as Ghostface, Mos Def and Dizzee Rascal.

Tracklist

1 - Daft 500 - Ghostface Killah/Daft Punk
2 - Mathematics - Mos Def
3 - Sirens - Dizzee Rascal
4 - Grand Slam - Dialect ft Copywrite
5 - Little Bit Of Feel Good - Jamie Lidell
6 - Nature's Way - Delusionists
7 - Out On The Razz - Rapskallions & Yosh

01. JVF Clique - Headspace Intro
02. K.I.N.E.T.I.K. - It Ain't Hard To See f. Jamieson
03. Asaviour & IQ - No Days Off f. Sir Smurf Lil (Akira Kiteshi Remix) (Headspace Exclusive)
04. Fallacy - Rap folly 2 f.Aggi Dukes
05. Lowkey - I'm Back (Dyson Remix)
06. Stig Of The Dump - Braindead f. RA The Rugged Man (Jehst Remix)
07. Skandal - Gluttony (Headspace Exclusive)
08. d.C. & Pennjamin- Fast Cars (Headspace Exclusive) DONE
09. Delusionists - Supa Lyrical Excursion pt.2
10. Remus - Brap Brap f. Farma G
11. Brotherman & DJ Flipz - Born in the Ghetto
12. Yarah Bravo - Freedom Fighters
13. DJ IQ & Joker Starr - Sunshine
14. Oliver Sudden - C.C. for Life (Headspace Exclusive)
15. Tactical Thinking f. 3 Amigos, Jay Madden & Mic Dyson - Stampede (Lord Balrog Remix) (Headspace Exclusive)
16. Norrin Radd - Do You Understand f. Booda French (Mixed by Cross Bone T)
17. Juice Aleem - Hologram (Si Beggs Lost In The Hologram Mix) (Headspace Exclusive)
18. Obba Supa - Wet Dreams Over Nightmares (Headspace Exclusive)
19. Alphabetix - Slug Life f. Verbal Contact (Produced by Fidgit, mixed by Vice) (Headspace Exclusive)
20. Prose - Go On... (Headspace Exclusive)
21. JVF Clique - Flow Nutters (Headspace Exclusive)
22. Figment - Floor By Floor
23. Ty - Don't Cry (Headspace Exclusive)
24. London Zoo - Piece of Mind (Jed Mix) (Headspace Exclusive)
25. Jack Flash - Harass The City (Headspace Exclusive)
26. Chima Anya - KOS (remix) (Cuts by DJ Slipdisc) (Headspace Exclusive)
27. Redbeard - Sick On My Jumpa f. Sonny Jim & Kosyne (Wizard Remix) (Headspace Exclusive)
28. Blacksmith & Jagos - Edge of Breakthrough (Headspace Exclusive)
29. Mystro - Maintain (Produced by Earth Hip Hop)
30. Genesis Elijah - I'm Doin It
31. Skuff & Inja - Sunnicide
32. Just Muz - Soulful Stuff

This mixtape looks HUGE! It's dropping on the 5th of Feb (unless I just made that up) and Delusionists are on there, alongside nothing but the biggest names in UK Hip Hop right now. Check the blurb;

"For those of you who are into UK Hip Hop, sometimes you need some Headspace from the below average tracks and throw away rhymes you so frequently hear. Well here it is! nearly 2 hours of pure, unadulterated headspace!

The Headspace mixtape series is a collaboration of minds between the Basement Sessions podcasts and online Hip Hop community and the Hip Hop Hype Dog blog alongside Uk Hip Hop Mixtapes, Soap Box Clothing and Sensei FM. These four titans of the UK scene have created a mixtape that truly represents where the UK scene is right now."



"If you need more convincing, the mixtape includes tracks from (and this really is just a taste of what’s to come):
Kashmere, Truth, Joker Starr, Asaviour, Brotherman, Fallacy, Stig Of The Dump, LDNZoo, DJ IQ, INJA, Scandal, Chima Anya, Prose, SonnyJim, Kosyne, Genesis Elijah, Lowkey, Mystro, Obba Supa, Remus, Farma G and TY!!!!!"

This tune has been knocking around for a bit and it's featured on the forthcoming Delusionists promo CD Prolusion Plus, dropping very soon. Play the vid, read the lyrics* and rap along with your friends! And when you're done with that, we'd really appreciate it if you rate the video on Youtube, leave a comment and generally shove it in people's faces all over the interweb.

The Movement

To any renegades creeping in the shade,
Thinking 'bout beef? You're better off eating a grenade.
You’re 'bout as lethal as a blade of grass in a street fight,
Beanz too advanced for these neophytes
Nice since grasshopper knee height,
So tell these nerds to dash
Or get their lips all bloody like virgin gash.
And that’s absurdly crass
But yo I have to dumb it down so I can earn some cash.
So the words are brash, and the beats are more so,
You need a little meat up on that feeble torso,
Before you can compete with raw pros,
You get this Nastro Azzuro smashed to your jawbone, bro
For acting like you all don’t know
You get dragged to a land where the law won’t go.
You could masturbate until your phallus aches
And still wouldn't come hard as this, it won't happen mate.
But allow me to elaborate;
These rappers might as well be singing Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake.
But who's the baker man that's bringing you the treats,
Courtesy of Slim Pickens on the beats.
It’s UK All Day, spin it on repeat.
And if you listen close you'll hear ‘em kissing on their teeth.
We got these washed-up rappers thinking “How can we prevent the drama
Getting deeper than the trench of Mariana
Or fed to the Pirhanas?"
I smell a little weed and I don’t mean the scent of marijuana,
I’m talking ‘bout you pussy ‘oles, you need Tena Lady,
The shit that I’ve been penning lately make ‘em certify Ben as crazy.
Yeah maybe I’m fucked in the head,
‘Cause I’m up at 3am while you’re tucked in your bed, snoozing,
I guess you probably slept on The Prolusion
And that’s the main reason why you’re losing.
You left too much room for improvement,
Delusionists moved in and now you stay tuned to the movement.
And there’s still room for improvement,
Delusionists moved in and now you stay tuned to the movement.

© 2009 Beats Laying About

*Props to Tom over at Life Just Bounces for the idea of publishing lyrics in this way. I look forward to jacking more of your ideas in future.

Download aboveGround and Style43 present It Came From Across The Pond

US site aboveGround hooked up with the good people at Style43 to put together this compilation of some of the best Hip Hop the UK has to offer.

The tracklist is below and you can download it for no money right here.

1. Sound of a Genius – Jack Flash
2. Strange Fruit – M9ine
3. Aquarius – Mystro
4. Kush115 – Squid Ninjaz
5. The Low – Delusionists
6. Take Time – Truth
7. Ground N Bump (Interlude) – Jon Phonics
8. Some Emcees – The IRS
9. Responsibilities – Farma G
10. Clash of the Titans – Shadowstar ft. Joker Starr
11. Do It For a Fee – DJ IQ ft. Micall Parknsun
12. I’m Doing It – Genesis Elijah
13. Now Look At Us – Revilo
14. Alternate Take – Jon Phonics ft. Verb T & Fliptrix

As you can see, there's some big names and big tunes on there, and to have Delusionists' The Low sat amongst them makes us kinda proud. That song is gonna be included on our upcoming Prolusion Plus CD, so keep 'em peeled for details of how you can cop a hold of that.

Delusionists recently joined DJ Fabia for a bit of a chinwag over at Sensei FM HQ. Hit the big play button to see what happened and hear DBF bust an ill verse about Henry VIII.

Big up to Fabia for cramming us into the world's most dangerous studio - make sure you check for her shows on Sensei FM and UK Nova.

Download: Delusionists - The Movement (Prod. Slim Pickens)

Some brand new Delusionists music for your funky ear drums. This one's called The Movement and the beat was lovingly prepared by Slim Pickens.

This is a UK All Day exclusive, or at least it was for about 5 minutes until I wrote this. If you don't know about UK All Day or Slim Pickens, have a word with yourself.

Let us know what you think and pass it on to your man dem.

The winning entry will be featured on the CD version of The Prolusion EP as a bonus cut. This is the very same CD that we'll be passing on to as many heads as possible in the next few months as we put our heart and soul into getting our music heard. So there's potentially a decent amount of free exposure on offer for the winner...

Er... I probably should have posted this about a week ago but I was busy shitting through the eye of a needle in a crappy Egyptian hotel.

This is a little promo vid put together by Certified Banger for the On The Radar 4 album, which is still in heavy rotation on the communal Beats Laying About personal cassette player (with auto-reverse functionality).

Have a listen, then download the whole bleedin' fing.

Download On The Radar Volume 4

Yo! What better way to forget a fairly shitty holiday than to announce that Certified Banger (your favourite blogger's favourite blog) dropped On The Radar Volume 4 on Monday and it is, in my humble and slightly biased opinion, the best release in the series so far. There's exclusives all over this one from a whole heap of up-and-comers on the UK scene and the album is cleverly sequenced so that it doesn't feel disjointed at any point, despite the variety of talent on display.

As with previous installments, this has opened my orifices to a bunch of artists I've dozed on and would definitely like to hear more from - Instance, Chosen Spokesmen and Nutty P spring to mind, but there's good shit throughout. Check the back cover for the tracklist;


A special mention goes to 30KB who provide what is possibly my favourite track off the LP, the unique, atmospheric and lyrically heavyweight Crewd Sons (Ghost in The Machine). To hear more from 30KB do the MySpace ting.

And of course, this wouldn't be a Beats Laying About post without some self-promotion...

Delusionists kick things off with something brand new featuring Beats Laying About newcomers Invizible Frenz. You can cop the track by clicking on the following link;

Download Delusionists - Parallel Worldz feat. Invizible Frenz

You should really download the full On The Radar Volume 4 album though. There's really no excuse not to. It's free, you wally. Download it by clicking here. You can also get the full OTR back catalogue right here.

Seems like a good time to shout out Cee Banger for the hard graft and support shown, not only for us but for the scene as a whole. We salute you!

Certified Banger has cemented itself as THE blog to go to for UK Hip Hop (stop me if I'm wrong) so the 4th instalment of the On The Radar series is gonna be a heavyweight release. As always there will be plenty of new stuff on there as well as exclusive ish from Joker Starr, 10Shott and Will Young.

Okay, Will Young won't be on there, but there will be a brand new song from Delusionists if that's any consolation.

Keep an eye on Certified Banger and make sure you download it as soon as it hits the virtual streets. Oh, and cop the rest of the OTR series while you're waiting.