BUTTERCUTS RECORDS PRESENTS
“MYGRAINE”
REBEL ACA & SPRAGGA BENZ & RODNEY P
Featuring a mix by DJ PHANTASY
& Old Skool Funky Hip Hop Mix by Pierre Duplan, Lil’s Rossco & Rebel ACA
Music Video by Big Ben Bro
RELEASE DATE – 4th APRIL 2023 (420 Day)
The legendary dancehall giant, Spragga Benz and God Father of UK hip hop, Rodney P, join alternative hip hop Artist Rebel ACA on a musical explosion in his latest single ‘Migraine’. Both Spragga Benz and Rodney P are renowned artists, bringing Jamaica and the UK together in this one-of-a-kind collaboration.
Rebel ACA channels the severe pain of having daily migraines into two versions of the single; the original is an ‘Old Cool FU NK’ hip hop version and the other is a drum and bass mix by DJ Phantasy, featuring a funky, constant drone throughout the track.
It’s hard not get pulled into the pulsating energy of this song, with the twists and turns representing the pounding pain, vertigo and tinnitus associated with migraines.
‘I know of so many people, including myself, who suffer from debilitating migraines’, said Rebel ACA. ‘It felt good to put the pain into music, a sort of release of suffering through the lyrics. It feels good to use this amazing genre of music to communicate about ordinary day to day things, like suffering from a bad headache. It feels good to shift from the classic dialogue of sex and violence, so often present in hip hop lyrics.’
Spragga Benz and Rodney P come together with Rebel ACA to capture the essence of a migraine and the probable positive effect of Cannabis; yet to be embraced fully by the medical world but helping so many with their intense suffering.
‘We talk about smoking weed to fight the migraine’ says Rebel ACA. "The lyrics revolve around what it feels like to have one in your head. Doctors have told me that migraines are caused by triggers like alcohol and getting f*cked up. Then you get a migraine and now you get more f*cked up on pills or weed to feel better." This revolving cycle spirals throughout the single.
Spragga Benz and Rodney P also take a twisting of the meaning of MYGRAINE to ‘My grain of weed’.
Rebel ACA's music is versatile but uniquely his own by utilizing numerous live instruments and coming in hard with a big boom-bap sound. The Rebel ACA sound is born by adding a funk influence on his tracks aligned with funky bass. On ‘Migraine’, he uses some vintage 70s French influence vibes to give the single a flavour of its own.
Rebel ACA records under Buttercuts Records, a company he owns and operates. The London-based production company has been "bashing out buttery beats" since 2000. Buttercuts Records is the go-to place for releasing hip hop, reggae, breaks, funk, soul, and folk records with a tongue-in-cheek attitude and marketing that surpasses witty wordplay.
As ‘Migraine’ gains international attention, one can appreciate how Rebel ACA combines old and new hip hop with effortless flows and brilliant lyrics. Maybe the world is ready for an international tax advisor who drops bars and vibes out to some wicked rhymes.
lyrics
MYGRAINE LYRICS SPRAGGA
>>>>>>>>
This is a brain killer
A chiller
Yo
My brain my brain overacting
Alcohol I swear is the last thing I need
My brain needs something relaxing
Gonna find the right strain of the highest grain weed
Cos I feeling it coming on
And I feel it coming on
Gonna fight with my chalice
Gonna fight with my bong
Cos I feel it coming on
I feel it coming on
Gonna fight with my rizzla
With my reefer extra long
RODNEY
>>>>>>>>>
Got the pain inna me head
Gimme the lambs bread
Give me the sensimilia
Make me gwan go check the dread
And get the real boom stock
Yeah!
The boom crop
Bare big buds is where we love we nah flop
Cah
This pain inna my brain need healing
This why we bun a one spliff inna the evening
And my Queen come give me a little squeezing
Give a little feeling something we can believe in
REBEL >>>>>>>>> Scream
SMASHED you get trashed
You get lashed. till you crash
Then it snaps, no relax
Till you crack, In a gap
filled with trash, smoking green
with some hash, till your mashed
From your stash, getting whiplash
As you crash to the mat
12
It’ll be back in a flash
So, don’t get too relaxed
it’ll bash up your flatl
like a baseball bat
Oh you fucking cunt
Come here ya
Arghhhh stop it..
SPRAGGA
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
My brain my brain acting nasty - why?
My baby gave me a list that I need
My brain need a lot that can last me
Many thing many nights till I find such relief.
Cos I feeling it coming on
And I feel it coming on
Gonna fight with my chalice
Gonna fight with my bong
Cos I feel it coming on
I feel it coming on
Gonna fight with my rizzla
With my reefer extra long
RODNEY >>>>>>>>>>>
Ganja baby seen the world go crazy
So it’s me and my babies
Me and my lady
Don’t truss them man
Cos them man shady
Don’t call me
If you can’t pay me
You know the ting
Head we’ll start hurting
Mind move to merking
Dutty riddim Killa
Come on we let the bottle spin
Or bun a little grade
And gwan chill behave
So the pain waves that's inna my brain can’t win
REBEL >>>>>>>>>
Its a wicked spirit
and you’ll learn to really fear it
if you try to push the limits
any where nearly near it
And I don’t really feel it
Like I used to really fear it
Because I’ve learnt to clearly steer it
With some weed and no more spirits
(Fuck you all)
And what on earth just is it
That makes it so explicit
For me to get this blizzard
So vicious and so vivid
i’ve done what I ought-a
had a run n Drunk some water
Should bought some time
Not to have this dumb aura
And HOW ON earth
Am I supposed to
deal with this shit
I Get a wizard
And a lizard
and i Follow the script
but it doesn’t make
a difference
To any of this twist
Hope the Skys open up
And takes away this bitch
SPRAGGA >>>>>>>>>
My brain my brain getting blasted
My ting not mixed with no x or no speed
My strain is the sense or lambs bread
Gotta pick away the stems and the leaves
Cos I feel it coming on
And I feel it coming on
Gonna fight with my chalice
Gonna fight with my bong
Cos I feel it coming on
I feel it coming on
Gonna fight with my rizzla
With my reefer extra long
REBEL >>>>>>>>
MEGRAINE,
MEGRAINE
SOME PEOPLE SAY
(English people)
MIGRAINE,
MIGRAINE
(American people)
But my name
My name
My name
(Sensible people)
Is to call it
MEAN PAIN,
MEAN PAIN
(Cos it hurts quite alot)
I feel it coming on
And I feel it coming on
(Oh no!)
Gonna fight with my chalice
Gonna fight with my bong
Cos I feel it coming on
feel it coming on
Gonna fight with my rizzla
With my reefer extra long
SPRAGGA >>>>>>>
Cos I feel it coming on
And I feel it coming on
Gonna fight with my chalice
Gonna fight with my bong
Cos I feel it coming on
I feel it coming on
Gonna fight with my rizzla
With my reefer extra long
REBEL >>>>>>>>>
Come on weed
Save the day again
Help me
We can fight them together
Together
we are strong!
we won’t be a victim
We are marijuana
Not migraine
OOOOOoooo
Fucking migraines
Soul-searching hip-hop from this Florida rapper, with lyrics that dig deep and take an unflinching look at life’s questions. Bandcamp New & Notable May 1, 2023
