Friday 6 May 2011

Credit To The Nation 'Teenage Sensation'

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Credit To The Nation are Midlands teenage hip hop sensations MC Fusion, Mr G & T Swing... 'Teenage Sensation', released on 28/2/94, looks set to be their first Top 40 hit.

And so it was, although it also turned out to be their last, one of many seeming false dawns for credible UK hip-hop. Arguably it wasn't for another 15 years or so that British rappers were able to build careers in the mainstream, although Credit seem to have had more bad luck than many. By this time they'd already attracted attention with the Nirvana-sampling 'Call It What You Want' and a collaboration with Chumbawamba, but this track seems a little more knowingly commercial, especially the "Radio Friendly" version featured here (it blanks out the word "spliff"). That's not necessarily a bad thing, and that whistled hook is hard to get out of your head (although it's arguably a bit of an obvious trick). It's a fairly enjoyable record but hard to get excited about as anything beyond entertainment.

Available on: Teenage Sensation

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