You'll never catch me on the Jeremy Kyle show

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

This is pretty good, isn't it? The gentleman doing the rapping is called Wretch 32 and the song is called 'Traktor' as in "I ride this motherfvcking beat like a traktor". There are "choo-choo"ing noises. The video features a lady hitting a dusty drum and a random OWL.

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[koganbot]

Thanks for posting this. I just wrote the following on Rolling Country:

"Traktor" by Wretch 32 ft. L. Not country (the guy is a Brit dancehall-grime-pop amalgam, if that's the right terminology (I can never keep up)), but contains the line "I rides* the motherfuckin' beat like a tractor." Don't know if there have been any other noncountry songs to mention tractors, much less to be named for one. Actually, the techno rhythm right at the start does have its ancestry (or at least predecessors) in pre-surf hillbilly guitar boogies, though it isn't played on guitar, I don't think.

*Actually sounds more like "I writes motherfuckin' beat like a tractor," but that makes less sense, since I've never thought of plowing as like writing, or "choo-choo" as descriptive of the process of writing. (In the vid, they actually do write some lyrics on the wall, and maybe are trying to write, hence say, "ride this," but the pronunciation is so condensed it sounds like "rides.")

I writes motherfuckin' blog posts like a tractor.

Choo choo blog hard blog faster, stack pieces everyday. I writes zoom zoom like a rock 'n' roll. More women more bloggin' all day.

(Wretch 32's Facebook: "His slick word play to embed satire into lyrics has made him a firm favourite among DJ's and captured the heart of audiences not only in the Uk but across Europe.")

[koganbot]

Not that it's relevant, but I also pointed out on Rolling Country that the first track on the Rihanna album has the same title as Flynnville Train's "Sandman" (minus the last two letters).

You guys miss a lot by not reading Rolling Country.