Ed Scissor - Max (Official Video) (Prod. Lamplighter)

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Brand new video for 'Max'. Track produced by Lamplighter. This is the third single to be released from Ed Scissor's debut album 'Better.Luck.Next.Life' which is out late November 2012 on High Focus Records on CD, Digital & Limited Edition vinyl. The project features Contact Play is entirely produced by Lamplighter.
Video created by Anis Ali www.anisali.co.uk
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[@alexhoneyy2665]

Lamplighter is possibly the best producer I've been listening to in recent weeks. Every instrumental he does is flawless, mad respect.

[@seanbharper]

i love how dark a lot of ed's stuff is, he really is a genius

[@dowhatyouwant99]

rawest fucking beat

[@slipworksfactory8280]

Whenever I am feeling really really shit, like so shit things start getting dark I listen to this song and watch the video and it truly does something for me. Ed you have saved me from some real dark times and for that, I thank you.

[@FullMetalJesus84]

UK has some top notch producers.

[@bigchestflex]

for sure! the Brits have many of my top hip hoppers

[@joehempstead369]

This will always be one of my favourite songs ever

[@Wfordy212]

Always

[@aronbradley-clarke4278]

This shit is so relatable cos we all probably knew a 'Spastic Max' in our local community or school. I was a bit of an outcast, so I'd talk to this archetype regularly. He's the kid who faced so much darkness he decided to embrace it.

[@niallhelire819]

We all know a man like Max. It could be a family member, a mate, a loved one or a lost one, might even be yourself. As dark as this tune is its a beautiful example of a life we all know to well. Absolute masterpiece 👏

[@dannymaurice5543]

Ive been through some dark times in the last few years and sometimes i feel like im becoming Max. Ive been tryna do better and seek help, but the feeling lingers and grows stronger

[@missbritt288]

This is a literal masterpiece , remember listening to this while fresh outta highschool ... all this high focus stuff just blew my mind

[@user-pk4hv9mi8g]

Truth mate its a fucking masterpiece

[@KerouacsAccomplice]

You and me both. Discovered this subgenre through a mate and we became true followers of it. I studied english literature at school, and somehow this stuff is more poetic than poetry itself. The rich, vivid, satirical, gritty imagery.

[@Oxymoroncodone]

Couldnt have said it better

[@elbo7755]

It's mad that this tune is coming up to it's 10 year ani

[@agbrenv]

this is my favorite album from him, his later stuff also has plenty of songs I like, but I can enjoy this from start to finish, while later projects have instrumental only tracks or songs that barely fall into the category of hip-hop all of which I don't really care for, kinda like the 3 new songs released from his upcoming album, I don't particularly care for them, well maybe apart from Been A Minute

[@slipworksfactory8280]

Thank you Ed, I still use this to get me out of shit places. Today is one of those days

[@slipworksfactory8280]

Back again

[@blockheadcas]

i so fuckin' relate to this track, the gear,bee,smack call it whathever fucked up my life properly...when you feel really really good then comes to feel really fuckin' bad, no talking' about no fuckin' karma, it's just the duality that happens in this world simple as the day & night, good & bad, moon & sun...my advice, leave you're veins alone..safe

[@christophemillertime]

Work it, you're worth it.

[@ethanwashington60]

life doesn't come with a handbook, make mistakes but acknowledge and learn. best of luck mate

[@BIPERM]

i appreciate your guts mate

[@rad44rr]

hope ur ok now chap

[@tyonorshapzc7tjfvb7-caz]

@blockheadcaz ^^ :D-)-

[@JamieMarksify]

Still coming back to this tune just a master peice 🙏Edds use of metaphors is simply unreal

[@newday8545]

When are we going to be hearing from Ed Scissor again????

[@Emily-xo2sh]

Yes.. when?!!

[@ValAzurah]

Where is Scissor Tongue

[@garethdiamond1048]

fuck knows what a waste needs to be bringing that fire been away far too long

[@ArkayneShad0w]

i think he might be making chavassian striking distance into a full album but i really have no clue

[@rad44rr]

Wheeeere the fuck is scissor touuuunge

[@hazeboiRR]

What amazing story telling, vocabulary prowess, lyrical ability and picture paiting. I hate to say this but I fully relate to being in that mosh pit of non - existence in the fourth dimension for too long.....

[@maxdunbar8745]

I attempted suicide with this on loop few days ago I relate to it tooo much ovi I ain't messing with skag but yo I went to te DEPTHS man urghh😫

[@oiinahgiiusadurrybrahchuck7209]

@@maxdunbar8745 aye fam. how you doing

[@aleksandrilarionov9997]

It was 1999 Bonfire Night When the red mist first enveloped his character traits He found himself with no control over his fists wailing on some dickhead’s face from his council estate See many moons had passed since the hope of a 2 point 4 landlubber life style had been smashed into smithereens It was a year ago this very day that the intravenous sludge pumping had taken off at a wild speed He found himself a regular at the phone boxes Cherry Lambrini Bicarb from the corner shop Back to the mould covered wormhole mattress stained practice baccy packs full of flints and butts stinking Nuff guzzling drugs Vein deposit lumps clogging his mug stuck in the mud the AM doth greet him Spastic Max sat in a deluge of acid tabs Flame retardant trackie pants and garage raps sketching Seldom seen was he between A-to-B Missions to spaghetti junctions paints on the underpass Hanging off the highest bridge Rangoose quackathon Throwing breeze blocks through speeding windscreens passing He would climb electricity mains and cut the power from his home town and roam the streets reeling in the panic And cotch in cul-de-sac hedgerows watching single mothers sparking matches in the darkness of their living rooms His grief flourished like anthill communities Couplets from an undercurrent colour source beneath the grey concrete corridors and monoliths in-and-around the pissy stairwells and pissy lifts in which he found his peace Beneath the bread line Bread knives sliced at the smart price car crimes carnage his hair greyed Cracked enamel pegs inside a garbage pail kid cabbage patch tapping veins until the sun decayed He moved inland for better dope Cast away bastard face forgot the names of his school mates He moved inland like seagulls sacking off trawler ship cast offs for landfill luncheon The coastline haunted his thoughts and so he thought ever more about taking a saw to his neck side He had visions of blood dripping over the floor of his four-by-four foot box bedroom next life He’d open paperbacks but only paint the pages black and use a magnifying glass to spark a map of memories Words would get deleted quicker than a 100 metre dash Another night laden with some fear and loathing imagery You might have known him The man behind those ram raids The man behind the letter bombs sent out to several primary schools You might have known him as the dude who scampered down the side of your house and made off with your penny farthing bicycles He used to watch the freight trains He used to fish for carp and beat his catches to a rancid mush with heavy ended claw hammers He used to sneak into the cinema and sit in front rows and laugh his head off to the hammer horror matinees He used to talk to people and people used to talk him too That was way before the crack the whores the drugs the sniffing glue That was way before the days of simply nicking pissy booze and jumping queues of peeps shopping for shitty supermarket food See life wasn’t ship shape life was shit mate Life was hookers tied to his bed frame with grip tape Blindfolded piss games Net curtains shit stained fist gape listening to Rick James’ mixtapes He was his mother’s only baby pains His mother’s only labour day His mother’s one and only angel saint His mother never thought she’d see her grave before the day that Max was raking cash and chasing pavements to the stock exchange His mind felt heavy cracked skull matter case fragile flesh with lead brick sat inside throbbing He felt his face change shape and time ebbing away the vital signs of life ankle deep inside a teak coffin Sitting in the fourth dimension he felt the raw depression of forty horsemen stretching his organs awful essence He was ever omnipresent as a portal peasant looking in the mirror clock a devil dressed in his reflection During thunderstorms he found peace with life He saw the rain as writing letters with Jesus Christ and with his fingers he’d scribe letters across the sky in the hope that constellations would free his mind But deep inside his rancid flat Light flicker movements mapped white face wrinkled grimace lager cans and baccy ash Lost in the soil for the Spastic Max Six foot two six foot box six feet deep in the cancer tank

[@projectb-audioz1532]

Scissor man absolutely smashing it as usual. This still hits hard

[@joeobrien9762]

this is one of the realist's song i've ever heard

[@jaquecousteau2976]

One of the hardest beats ever made

[@telepathy90]

i love his imagery and stories. fucking phenomenal

[@yungptrapzbandobaby2847]

whos still litening to this in 2016........this is hard calm to toke bongs to

[@letsfraq9049]

+Bong King Stephens yesss

[@yungptrapzbandobaby2847]

+Tyler Adams legend

[@76shogun1]

I do!!from the Philly area U.S......us Americans should be ashamed of ourselves what we call hip hop nowadays.....good shit

[@thistownfails]

scissortongue sucks, no flow,just misery, flow man we need flow not bullshit

[@76shogun1]

thistownfails and where are your videos of "flow"??I'd love to be enlightened

[@teddykbug]

This is exactly why i love hip hop, incredible tune

[@Emily-xo2sh]

Always come back to this 🔥🔥🔥

[@MichaelTurley88]

love the Production Ed really gets images painted in your head!

[@Atomic101z]

"see life wasn't ship shape, life was shit mate" that is so fucking good!

[@s3pharoth]

So eerie but so damn good, Can't get enough of this guy

[@ApplemaxxMusicMedia]

Still one of the best songs in the 🌎🌍 🚀

[@dannymaurice5543]

This is the first High Focus, first Ed Scissor song i heard. Close to seven yeara ago. I still keep coming back

[@SamanthaRoserBabe1]

11 years on and still just as good as day 1

[@purepressure78]

All artists mentioned are worth bowing to. But this is Edward Scissortongue. Stand up!!!

[@NeanderthalTV]

Can't wait to hear the whole album, this is a dope track.

[@88binis88]

amazing lyrics ,the whole track and clip is dope.

[@UberBlessMan83]

Yasssss!

[@HatedHatred]

I could listen to this go on for hours

[@maroosia]

seriously good, loving these Lamplighter beats too, dark, mysterious, works great with scissortongue

[@VariantNode]

I still love the hell out of this track

[@discedo]

I love your style of beat man its a rarity to hear complexity in such a simple set up.

[@ApplemaxxMusicMedia]

A lyricist beyond measurement. Bring back #scissortounge

[@Marzimus]

Holy heck, this is dope! 💥

[@garethdiamond1048]

Always find my way bk here some classic this

[@jonahvarney8361]

woah this is my fave song ever!! so tuneful XXXX

[@knittedpainting]

He used to sneak into the cinema and sit in front rows and laugh his head off to the Hammer horror matinees

[@oldmate4665]

beautiful

[@viliani93]

This track is timeless. The amount of times i watched this video and only noticed that Ed walks past the guy at 5:40 though 🥴

[@destroythemap66]

Don't normally leave comments but just had to say: this song STILL gives me shivers. Next level. Big up High Focus!

[@YERRKL]

Scissor is BIG, can't wait for his solo release

[@defects1000]

scissor and lamplighter is a formidable combination. this is just to good. i CANT WAIT to hear more... bless up bruv!!

[@tregear26666]

ed scissortongue proves again why he's one of the uk's best word smiths

[@MichaelTurley88]

every thing with this song is amazing!!

[@HatedHatred]

Said it before and I'll say it again........ this man is a god

[@Tom-iq9qb]

This goes hard!! Another banger!!! 🔥💯

[@shrkb1te]

Yeah to right - how could forget split prophets - bil next , res, datkid all highly gifted mc's

[@wisewarriormuzic]

One of the best tracks I've heard in some time lol. That beat though... Damn

[@natewray2520]

These lyrics, the beat, its all just fucking sick! High focus and their boys just got a new sub.

[@Hoolicanni]

You don't get much more real than that! Top notch flow. Bam!

[@liamsmith6052]

Lamplighter is producing some of the dopest, most original beats I've heard in a while. If only he had better drum samples or instruments, these instrumentals would be unfuckable.

[@VariantNode]

Reminds me of Autechre, leaning more towards their Hip Hop roots. Been awhile since I've really hard a Hip Hop song with such classy synthwork in it

[@liamsmith6052]

That is true. But personally, I don't think his drum samples are very high quality, some of his claps and kicks sound like the presets you can get in FL Studio without adding any sort of effects or layering. But I'm not taking anything away from Lamplighter, he's still an amazing producer, this is just my opinion.

[@VariantNode]

***** They are simple sounds, but I think there's nothing wrong with that. I'd have to disagree with them sounding like FL Studio presets though. For example however, (not to bring up as a topic on its own at all), Soulja Boy's music is FL Studio presets. These drums could have been simple sounds from old drum machines, but sometimes simple is all you need and sometimes it's already available in its best form on some machine from the past. Like nobody complains when Aphex Twin used 808s, cause he does it dope. After listening to this I've developed yet another reason to cherish as something simple as a nice, sharp hand clap. Also I like how simple sounds give people to do something more audibly off-rhythm as shown in some of Edward's other tracks. Done on an organic drumset it might sound more like a wave of noise.

[@liamsmith6052]

I guess you're right. I think it's coming more from a personal perspective, I just don't like the basic clap sounds, I'd much rather hear clanky, metallic, crashy snares for some of these beats or really soft jazz snares. But that's just me.

[@VariantNode]

***** Respect simply for acknowledging that some things come down to taste :) and also for liking dope music anyway. Not everyone has the capacity.

[@burnonedown09]

The lyrics are like poetry.

[@SkillzArgentina]

word up4 this people!!!! hands up from buenos aires,argentina

[@cyreakarobbjewelz]

im not sure i fully digested this in full..but the poetry is loud and clear. this label is incredible!!., im shipping every release overseas, its that good!

[@jayrapid7590]

Didnt realize you were from Cambridge Ed!! Big up g!! If You Go Away, my favourite tune...

[@lydialoukaki8626]

Real classic hip hop back again!!! 😊👌

[@robxdavies]

this is dope. big up anis too!

[@Reachwun]

Not a fan of Scissortongue, but this really impressed me. Nice stuff.

[@Headtoppaman1989]

these are some deep meaningful bars jheeze

[@TheBare1992]

scissor smashin it again

[@bryanne3317]

THE BEST INSTRUMENTAL EVER

[@shrkb1te]

yeah - spot on got their two albums a few weeks back

[@EarthUPC]

Good track. Really good track. The beat and video are flaming too.. big ups!

[@blindmown]

And everyone seems to forget Skuff. As far as I can tell the most underrated bloke in UKHH

[@SubnoteMuzik]

absolute tune

[@PotRoast666]

Okay, I will for sure check it out. I appreciate the heads up, stay up homie.

[@coreywiles9317]

Truly captivating art..

[@sammarrec9917]

Loud.🔥

[@user-vg5rv5xf4u]

You need to tile that kitchen Max ...Sort it out mate.

[@thegreatVanitas]

This is such a masterpiece i know this dutch rapper his beats have a simmilair vibe. Only it was made like 5 or 10 years earlier sadly he's his music from that time is not populaire sinds we got al this drillers running around. Not knowing what real means or what good hiphop is its nice to see in this comments, atleast some people know what rap is all about.

[@viktorlnt7835]

this video is a masterpiece

[@slimymcbrazy7691]

every track is top notch quality

[@benbliss9589]

Shitting on mainstream since day 1 👌

[@MrYoungAndClueless]

big ups mayne! He probably bumping to this up in heaven!

[@rossettro]

sharp! i love it.

[@jelyko1]

Realy good! suport from Portugal dude!

[@pearhead7226]

I know so many people this track relates to its uncanny, such a hard tune!

[@tadellosplay]

2:36 Love seeing you at places like these.

[@jonathanamesake625]

I have only just caught wind of you this was incredible. Really really good so many qoute'ables.

[@TwistedPerceptionMc]

Everyone forgot Fliptrix hes the reason high focus are blowing up!

[@x67th]

SPASTIC Max

[@edwardscissortongue5716]

K-LASH IS MAJESTIC.

[@Motherslapper]

Scissortongue's a fucking lyrical poet man. Theremin and this are a fucking great demonstration of that narrative bassy dystopian storytelling.

[@shrkb1te]

Got the album today man , got the mango too - cant wait to give it a proper listen -

[@wakeforldmusic]

masterpiece

[@FeatheredFriend1]

No worries man, the point being still is that high focus and the UK scene is the fuckin business right now :)

[@rottenflaps]

how could u forget lead dog!!! and taskforce!! haha skinnyman, rodney p, roots manuva. split prohpets, concept of thought!! big up em all, killin it each in there own way. safe, UKHH making moves... support!!! big up all ya

[@pasiegopisuena]

Fair enough. Im gona cop that new TF shit to. Them boys deserve it. Peace.

[@ShardsOfAlex]

one of the few high focus tracks that isn't completely shit

[@campbelljacable]

true that im still bumpin solitary confinement non stop such an album

[@fuusajin6075]

keep up the sick Work

[@Wrest1Graffiti]

nice track, big ups to anis on the edit

[@fabrizioferrara6753]

Big Up!!!! EDWARDS

[@shrkb1te]

cheers man - re- fliptrix your not the first to remind me of him he's there man defo - he's on the extra list below

[@drkazeebazooka6128]

LOVE IT

[@ezymodes]

I don't have a mix, I listen to music... I was merely pointing out you forgot the legend that is chester p...

[@CharlesJonahMarshall]

this is a beautiful song...