Blak Twang Red Letters 12" The 12" taster for the album featured on the A side 'Red Letters', the title referring to bills piling up, and about efforts to break out from the poverty trap. Excellent lyrics over great beats. The B-side '19 Long Time' is also excellent, telling about growing up in the hip-hop scene in London "Sometimes we travelled uptown, looking for bargains ... Hunting for breakbeats, watching breakers in Covent Garden..." Their four earlier 12"s were all prime slabs of pure hip-hop, pure Sarf London hip hop. Wicked. Get them if you can. - Flat 4 | profile © ukhh.com 1999 - 2000