Muhammad Ali died today, and there could never be another bright star of a soul like he in the realm of sports. A few more colours in his palette and he really could be the future. Really, truly, it is so, it is not the time for lazy and overstated summations. As with Kanye West’s recent sets, he was alone throughout with his stark backdrop, but didn’t quite have the room-filling charisma to need nothing else. He was constantly in silhouette in front of the orange wall, and his between-song pronouncements were hard to hear. His obvious spikiness didn’t allow him to work the crowd as a more straightforward rapper might have. Party People, on the surface a fun club tune, featured the question: “How am I supposed to have a good time when death and destruction is all I see?” Two songs in, over the rolling synth riff of BagBak, he was suggesting unspeakable things for the president to do. Even when the music seemed more predictable, his brittle lyrics could surprise. Hip-Hop Lyrics That Salute Boxing G.O.A.T. The cut-up jungle beats and random bleeps of Big Time arrived thanks to James Blake. Yeah Right, from new album Big Fish Theory, was a mix of cavernous sub-bass and jarringly frothy female vocals made with SOPHIE from the experimental collective PC Music. He has also turned this way for some of his more unorthodox productions. Filming for Robbie Williams Take That inspired biopic Better Man continued earlier this week with stars dancing on the streets of London clad in blue suits.
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