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Track Listings
| 1. At Your Inconvenience |
| 2. Don't Piss Me off |
| 3. Read All About It Feat Emeli Sande |
| 4. Spinning Out Feat Fink |
| 5. Remedy Feat Ruth - Anne Cunningham |
| 6. How Many Moons |
| 7. Astronaut |
| 8. Avalon Feat Sierra Kusterbeck |
| 9. Doll |
| 10. Never Be A Right Time Feat Ed Drewett |
| 11. Today I Cried |
| 12. Nightmares Feat Royce Da 5' 9" and Kobe |
| 13. Forever Falling Feat Haydon |
| 14. Into The Ground |
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This perhaps explains records like this second album from Hackney’s Stephen Manderson aka Professor Green. After winning an avalanche of freestyle rap battles and surviving a false start with Mike Skinner’s ill-fated The Beats label, 27-year-old Green struck pop-rap gold in 2010 with his Alive Till I’m Dead album and the Lily Allen-bolstered Just Be Good to Green single. There have also been tragedies and traumas – the suicide of his father, a friend’s death by heroin, a 2010 attack with a bottle at Cargo in Shoreditch that saw his assailant sentenced to jail time.
So, when he asks rhetorically, on the opening title-track of the follow-up: "Why would I make dance music / When I can’t dance to it?" before declaring, "I’m the antidote to that s***", and you’re nodding along approvingly to the low-slung, squelchy G-funk adorned with fuzz guitar and rude bursts of synth, you want to take the man at his word. Then you notice the presence of a bland drum‘n’bass track (Trouble), a dodgy trance-meets-breakbeat tune (Remedy) and the now-obligatory Dubstep One (How Many Moons). And you are, frankly, bemused and, increasingly, very, very bored.
Of course, one person’s ‘eclecticism’ is inevitably another person’s ‘throwing any currently marketable material at the wall to see if it sticks’. At Your Inconvenience is dominated not by club bangers but incredibly maudlin rap ballads full of banal piano lines, anonymously cutesy-pie female vocalists and choruses that scream, "Please let me on The X Factor… I promise I won’t swear!" The award for most soul-sucking moment becomes an arm-wrestle between Spinning Out, which thinks it ‘samples’ Where Is My Mind? by Pixies but actually covers it in cruise-ship style and then chucks a pointless rap at it, and the closing Into the Ground, which attempts to reclaim Green’s hip hop cred by unleashing a barrage of witless misogynist abuse. Green apparently sees no hypocrisy in including this track after the dire schmaltz that is Astronaut, a song about a rape victim who becomes a junkie and commits suicide.
Add the inevitable ‘it’s awful being famous’ whinge-rants towards the album’s end and the inconvenient truth is apparent: this is a depressingly compromised album from a rapper who, around the time of his 2006 ‘mixtape’ set Lecture 1, looked set to live up to his billing as the UK’s answer to Eminem. Instead, Professor Green seems to have settled for being the musical version of Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show. Without the laughs or the fat bloke. --Garry Mulholland
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There are songs on this album which do disappoint me such as the title track `At Your Convenience' and `Doll' but there are so many more songs which make this album one of the best I've heard this year. I especially like `D.P.M.O', `Remedy' and `Avalon'. It is very easy to compare Mr. Green with Eminem but I glad that although you can tell that Eminem is a big influence on Green, its good to see that he has begun to take his own direction and as long as he continues in that direction he will enjoy much needed recognition and album success. Keep up the good work.
This is an album that is well worth your money and can appeal to guys and girls from all classes of living as long as they like grime, hiphop and rap and can appreciate soulful singer/songwriter melodies in Professor Green's evolution and growth from his previous project. This is my favourite album of the year, tied with the Bad Meets Evil: Hell The Sequel LP that has similar aspects to this one when it vomes to lyrical abilities and haunting choruses. ( Infact, Bad Meets Evil's Royce da 5'9 even guest spots on " nightmares with an excellent verse to match Pro Green's sick verse about a cartoon-like criminal mindset that celebrates violence in a humourous way that does not offend but entertains.)
No criticisms, perfect album that puts the rapper miles ahead of some of my other favourite rappers like Chipmunk and Wretch 32, even the lyrically brilliant Devlin. Do not hesitate, BUY THIS ALBUM NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
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