Dane Baptiste & Kojey Radical’s 23Winters

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

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4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Hip-hop fan Dane discovers Kojey Radical's masterful 23Winters for the first time. At 42 minutes the EP spans rap, spoken word, and a conversation with Kojey's dad that covers themes of love, life in London, and their Ghanaian heritage. Which makes James ask, is this really an EP?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.0	My name is James Acaster and in 2017 I had a breakdown.
0:13.0	I dealt with that breakdown by buying as much music from 2016 as I possibly could.
0:18.0	As a result, I now own over 600 albums that came out in 2016 and I believe
0:24.0	it's the greatest year for music of all time. But it's not enough me believing it. I also want
0:28.8	each and every single one of you to believe it too. And a guest every single week. I'm going to send
0:34.4	them an album in advance. They'll come on the we're going to talk about that album. This week
0:39.3	my guest is Dane Baptiste and the album I've sent him is 23
0:43.3	Winters by Koji Radical.
0:45.2	I am charged to go my first name. But I
0:51.2	die not have. I passed through many times. Some of his 23 winters technically
0:57.0	23 winters technically is described as an EP by Koji
1:03.2	but it's over 40 minutes long several tracks there
1:06.7	It's not just a three track project
1:08.0	This is an album okay this is absolutely 100% an album.
1:12.8	Koji Radical, if you don't know, is a British rapper, a UK rapper.
1:17.0	His music often gets likened to spoken word in parts as well.
1:20.8	This rap style can veer between hip-hop and spoken word.
1:25.3	Walk past the cemetery on the pathway to my boy's house to sit, get lifted and dream about
1:29.8	how we wanted to live.
1:31.7	Irony in action, fractions of honesty divide people into factions, those who will and those
1:37.3	who actually will.
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