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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Michael Cragg

New music: Le1f – Wut

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There's nothing worse than when a bad video detracts from a good song. In which case it's definitely worth celebrating when a video comes along that lifts an already great song to the realms of properly amazing. So it is with Wut, the horn-flecked highlight from New York rapper Le1f's recently released mixtape Dark York. Sporting more than his fair share of lycra, Le1f, AKA Khalif Diouf, poses and preens, vogues and drops his way through the three-minute video, almost bursting out of the screen by sheer force of personality. At one point he lapdances for a semi-naked man sporting a Pokemon mask and still your attention is fixed on him. Luckily the song keeps up its half of the bargain too, Diouf's ridiculous, rapid-fire flow submerged within a looped horn sample, burping bass and chant-like backing vocals. Altogether now: "I'm getting light in my loafers".

• You can download Dark York for free from here.

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