True Facts

*Cough cough splutter* excuse me a moment while I clear away the dust and cobwebs. Yes yes it’s been a while I know. I’m currently computer-less and updating from my android sounds like way too much work. However I have recently discovered that The Chap is available in New Zealand so as soon as I go and find enough coins in the sofa cushions I’m gunna go get me some. In the process of this discovery I also found some drama in the chap hop world.

Chap Hop, as you all know, is the highest, most sophisticated genre of music we have the privilege of listening to today. At present, as far as I am aware, there are two purveyors of this art form: Mr B and Professor Elemental. Well the latter of the two gentlemen has released a ditty as thick as Mr B’s mustache with fightn’ words. Mr B is yet to respond saying to The Chap however “It’s all a frightful bore, really. I understand this chappie has something of a bee in his bonnet about me. It’s usually only the ladies who get like that. No room for two Gentleman Rhymers? Act like a gentleman then, sir! ”

Well put sir. I personally have put in exhaustive research on the issue (I checked their respective wikipedia pages) and found that the good professor seems to have the upper hand. The ever infallable wiki states that the Professor has been active since 2005 and our friend Mr B began his illustrious career in late 2007. However Mr B was the first to release hardware for your gramophones in 2008 – “Flattery not Included,” whereas Elemental had his first record a year later with Tom Caruana entitled “Rebel Without Applause”.  I will admit to hearing Elementals track “Cup of Brown Joy” before my first taste of B, the video of which released four months before that of Mr B’s first – “Straight Outta Surrey”.

So who is copying whom? I’ll leave that up to you, our readers, to decide. My favor falls with Mr B personally. The good professor has some fine tracks and is a talented rapper for sure but I enjoy the works of Mr B a tad more. And he has a banjolele.