Leeds Hip Hop Scene

Word up peeps, this is how it is and this is how it was.   

Got to the Elbow Rooms with a an hour and a bit to spare, a couple of white boys were playing the block party music the ears wanted to hear and warming up the one’s ‘n’ two’s, the breakers were makin holes in the dance floor and the master of ceremonies, BBOY 10 TONN, was putting his stamp on the evening.
Before the GANG came to party a beautiful girl came to the stage, her name… BIANCA G (she was looking so fine that if she had opened her mouth to reveal a grill full of burnt chicken the guys would have still wished they had a chance of tappin’ that ass). She came on to belt out her new single that is to be her first release titled ‘HOLD YOU DOWN’, this little lovely worked the crowd and was genius with her adlibs, and she had hip-hop in all the right places.
Exit the lady B and enter the mighty SUGARHILL GANG, looking a little bit older and a lot more buffed a dapper MASTER GEE takes command of the small stage area with WONDER MIKE on his right hand side, they are welcomed by the warmest of roars and shouts of SU-GAR-HILL, SU-GAR-HILL! They started by bursting the balls of Hank Marvin in the way of APACHE, they ripped the shit out of that and moved on to some new material, which I have to admit, I cannot remember the names of the two new tracks they performed, but it was very good all the same (they’re gonna be out at the back end of the year). Then it was their time to pay homage and respect to their other homies, the ones that weren’t there and who have now been entered into the rock hall of fame, Mr. FLASH and Co. Basically, they played ‘THE MESSAGE’ and rapped their asses off over the top, whilst sticking the mic into the crowd for us monotone dummies to pretend we know all the lyrics, (it was like the times in the shower but this time you couldn’t get away with getting’ it drastically wrong). They played more not so well known classics and another new one, then got some girls up for a dancing competition, which only seemed to benefit the ageing MASTER GEE (who was at this time down to his wife beater vest and lookin’ at his biceps every time he rapped in the direction of WONDER MIKE).

It had come to the end of their set and they played the old ‘sorry but that’s all folks, we’ve got nothing left to offer’ card, this worked, as every man, woman, under aged drinker and pool cue could be heard shouting ‘RAPPERS DELIGHT, Huh, what, RAPPERS DELIGHT! Then it dropped, it was something so sweet and I’ll never forget it, I don’t think I’ve ever remembered the whole of that classic before until this historic time in my life, I even filmed WONDER MIKE rappin’ with mad eyes into my camera, I can only imagine that this is how an Elvis fan would feel if he was singing ‘sail on sailor’ in their face while mopping his brow with a fluffy white towel, I was in hip-hop heaven and as my Uncle Herbert would say, ‘it was the shit’.

Thanks to LHHS and Fresh Jive for the opportunity, hope you’ve liked the read,

peas out

esSDee! 

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