Amazon.co.uk Review
Get Over It is the second album by the Nextmen, Cambridge lads Brad Balloo and Dom Search. Their debut album in 2000,
Amongst the Madness, caused a fuss in the UK hip-hop scene with its inherent funkiness, tight polished production and its considered collaborations with US and UK rappers.
Get Over It brings back all of those qualities, but adds a bigger sense of originality, a more diverse approach to production and an even more impressive collective of guest MCs. The opening cut, "Fire Walking", is an in-your-face headbanger and gets the album off to a cracking start. The party vibe is continued on songs such as Ty's title track, Rodney P's skanking "Hear What I Say", Dynamite MC's "High Score" and Soulson's "Put Your Hands Up" and Cutty Rank's "Silent Weapon".
Sandwiched in between these bonafide rump-shakers are a number of milder bumps that are equally as persuasive. Talented rapper Penultimate lends his erudite rhymes to no less than three tracks, J Live appears on "31st February" and Ty gets mellow for the end track "Marlon Brando". It might not be news that UK hip-hop is the strongest it's ever been, but it's a continual source of pride to see standards being raised and boundaries being pushed like this from our own shores. --Paul Sullivan