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The OG of UK Rap, Roots Manuva, Premieres New Machinedrum Produced Track "Like A Drum"

It's a reflective take on the price of progress.

This article originally appeared on Noisey UK.

He's back. Rodney Smith, arguably the greatest rapper to ever emerge from British shores, returned last month with the Four Tet produced "Facety 2:11," a single which proved he has not mellowed one iota over the past twenty years. Now he's premiering the single's flipside "Like A Drum," exclusively on Noisey.

Produced by one of electronic music’s most exciting voices, NYC’s Machinedrum, "Like a Drum" is a reflective take on the price of progress. Its percussion swings on a melody intricately weaved from jazz samples and warm pads. In his inimitable words, the single is "a wee spring warmer in voodoo coptic dialect shape shifting: the remit the same as ever in awakening one’s inner, modern-day Sun Ra, ODB, and Kate Bush on an overdrive of 'doing because we can't help ourselves…'"

Buy the single on iTunes or Ninjashop.