'Rollin' With The Nines OST' (Maffia Recordz) Released 24/4/06

This album features hip-hop, drum n bass, r n b, reggae and grime music, but the lyrics on show are less varied. After all the gun-talk here, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the genre 'grime' was an abbrieviation of 'gun-crime'. The 'Nines' in the title refers to guns with a diameter of nine millimetres. The reliably rubbish Kano tells us "If you've got a nine, blood, buss dat".

Cheers for that, Charlton Heston would be proud. The character 'Red light Robbie' in Corey J, Jagwa and Gappy Ranks' 'Make Way' didn't get his name from visiting prostitutes. The 'red light' is a dot on a target from a gun. The fearsome gangsterism of this track is somewhat undercut  by the none less gangster violins.

It's as if Chris Morris' 'Uzi M.C.' character was created in vain. If we were to take these M.C's at face value, they have committed every gun-crime in this country since the war. However, there are good songs here from Sway, Life, Skinnyman, Rodney P, Peel Dem Crew (What a name), Dizzee Rascal, Class A, Sizzla and Shy FX. That makes for a six song out of eighteen hit rate for the album, meaning back to the practice range for whoever compiled this.