Murs - Bad Man!
Hip-hop has been sorely underrepresented around Catnip in the past couple of weeks, especially with great new albums from Strong Arm Steady and Freeway/Jake One being released, but that’s about to get rectified. I have recently been getting into the string of amazing albums that 9th Wonder (from Little Brother) and Murs put together earlier decade, and this track is definitely a standout. Built on an obscure roots-reggae track from The Mighty Diamonds called Illiteracy, 9th breaks down the sample and creates a hook that will be stuck in your head for days. Murs jumps all over the opportunity to fill the track with classic hip-hop braggadocio, made all the better by Murs insistence that it’s not his fault that you wanted a bad man.
