UK trainer shop Soleheaven not only sell a tone of fresh kicks and accessories, but also take it upon themselves to hook up with a different musical collective each spring to produce a promotional video based around sneaker culture. They’ve drafted in producer Smoove to lace a really nice mellow beat, led by melodic wind [...]
With record store day just gone, you need to up your game if your bag isn’t already bulging, but even so there’s plenty of new releases to help break the zip coming up or just released. A mixture of Hip Hop and D&B (labelled as such for the genre purists) there’s even some Record Store [...]
PLEASE NOTE, THIS NIGHT HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL NOT BE HAPPENING ON 23RD! Keep an eye on The Doctor’s orders website for details of it’s rearrangement. As well as bringing in Hip Hop royalty from across the pond such as DJ Premier and Jazzy Jeff, it’s nice to see The Doctor’s orders representing [...]
Brighton based producer 184′s latest album seemed to slip under the radar a little bit when it was released on 21st January, and undeservedly so. Not only is it 16 hard, boom bap beats remixed by a whole host of the scenes illest producers such as Evil Ed, Kashmere, The Purist, Lewis Parker and Pete [...]
Real freestyle has become somewhat of a lost art recently; Youtube videos feature the word in the title when actually they feature nothing of the sort, rap battles are generally pre-written and most MCs stepping to the cypher are armed with their latest bars rather then straight off the dome wit. However, there are still [...]
Dual nationality rapper Andy Kayes learnt his trade spitting both English and French on the underground hip hop scene out in France and is admittedly someone I hadn’t heard of up until this point. But seeing a Facebook post by Micall Parknsun I was intrigued, and even more so when the presenter and videographer behind [...]
I’m sure I’m not the only one in UK Hip Hop to get really excited every time I see a new appearance from this particular high plains drifter. He’s been putting in work since day dot and is one of the key reasons our scene is where it currently is, with every mc and their [...]
Fliptrix is a name that needs no introduction to anyone who’s been reading anything I’ve been saying for the past year or so, or anyone into their Hip Hop in general. The founder of High Focus, one quarter of recent super crew The Four Owls and with two solo albums under his belt already, the [...]
The annual Camden Crawl rolls through north London on the may bank holiday weekend with an eclectic lineup of music, comedy, arts and all that good stuff spread over fifty venues and 3 days. Most interestingly, Jehst, Lunar C, Sway and Ghettz are on their repping for the hip hop/grime side of things, and Disclosure [...]
I posted the remix of ‘Connect the Spdif’, a Purist produced track featuring Jehst, Farma G and Buggsy, recently, and the full digital release has just dropped via King Kong Holding Co. A four track EP, it features that tune, along with the original which has got Jehst on every verse with Parky ad libs, [...]
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