Demo of the Week

The Rappers Delight Club

WHEN I was eight, I was still spitting Three Blind Mice through a recorder in music classes, getting nowhere and feeling like a failure.
Nobody wants to learn recorder. Why do schools give us recorders? Because they are cheap. That’s why. Cheapo recorders that put kids off picking up another musical instrument ever again.
Over the pond, the youngest ever Demo Of The Weekers have been doing much more fun stuff with mics and turntables and things. The Rapper’s Delight Club from Maryland, Uwe Es Ay, are a group of kids from eight to 11 who have been taught to freestyle rap rather than pipe recorder.
The result is something you don’t hear in your average Hampstead school assembly, cracking hip-hop tunes like Hum and Tick Tock. The coolest After School Club since Jossie’s Giants football training, the tracks have been spreading around the internet like wildfire.
Even hardened hip hop addicts have been clapping them on. Copies dropped into my inbox on Friday. Hum is the ace card. It features a quirky carousel sample, bumping beats and daisy-age rapping from kids too smart for their own good.
Child stars with more punch than Michael Jackson ever had, it will be interesting to see whether they graduate to MTV land. Tracks now available – for free – at the www.myspace.com/rappersdelightclub. Go there. Plug in. Chuck out the recorder.

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