The Nextmen are critically acclaimed UK DJ/production/songwriting duo Dom Search and Brad Baloo

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.

Tracklist

1 Fire Walking

2 Listen To This

3 31st February

4 Get Over It

5 Hear What I Say

6 20 Round Bout

7 High Score

8 Slow Burn

9 R. S. P.

10 Put Your Hands Up

11 Silent Weapon

12 Marlon Brando