Akala - It's Not A Rumour

'It's Not A Rumour' is an album that crystallises everything that's gone before it and smashes through current rap conventions. It draws on a spectrum of influences from balladry and soul to trance, punk and far beyond.

On 'This Is London', Akala takes off where The Clash's 'London Calling' left off - check that chiming guitar intro - and lifts the lid on the grimey cheek-by-jowl of the capital. On 'Stand Up', a incendiary Van Halen-style riff soundtracks a call-to-arms for every UK ghetto. For 'Yeah Yeah Yeah', Akala samples doomy, Black Sabbath-style guitars and attacks modern fakery in all its forms. On the sublime 'Hold Your Head Up', he lays down a hard-living autobiography over a rolling Isley Brothers soul groove. But it's on 'Shakespeare' where Akala busts out the level of lyricism that skyrockets him beyond the reach of any contemporary. Over the grinding breakdown of Tomcraft's trance smash 'Loneliness' Akala spits lyrics that bend the laws of street linguistics from slang to poetry to science and back again into the manifesto for tomorrows hop hop.

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01. Stand Up 02. Yeah Yeah Yeah 03. Edge - Akala & Niara 04. Shakespeare 05. Carried Away 06. This Is London 07. Bullshit 08. Roll Wid Us 09. Cold 10. Hold Your Head Up - Akala & Selah 11. Why Do - Akala & Ms. Dynamite 12. Edge

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