Leeds Hip Hop Scene

Today I found out about the demise of the blog, Hip Hop Bootleggers  (HHB). I suppose there is a limited shelf life for all bootleggin’ blogs and there has to be time when they must face the music (forgive the pun). They have lasted for quite a while and that is considerably surprising considering they [...]

Akala has been moving his way up the UK hip-hop scene for a while, he initially came through with the gimmick of being the little brother of Ms. Dynamite but as he kept going it was obvious he is a very talented artist in his own right.
He touches on both Hip-Hop and Grime circles after [...]

How We Do is a 2hour show on LSR dedicated to promoting local urban talent, all music you hear on the show is by Leeds based artists and in the 2nd hour of the show we have an artist/crew/etc come in and be interviewed and do some freestyling, singing or just have a chat.
Anyways, if [...]

Verb T is an artist who certainly enjoys collaborations, his first two LP’s are both collaborations first with mystical emcee Kashmere and the second with UK beat master Harry Love. This his third LP is no different this time teaming up with Dusty Crates Radio Show DJ and Halal Beats member ‘The Last Skeptik’.
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This morning I was reliably informed the new Fiddy album “Curtis” will be moved back a week for its release in September as far as I am concerned the album should be moved back to the year 5000 but that must just be me?
Most music consumers must love filling the deep pockets of 50 [...]

Yo…
Shameless‘ live set last night at the Elbow Room (’longside the Paddyraggaband…) was close to being the best single live show I’ve ever seen. Skinnyman probably still edges it as #1 but there’s not a lot in it… if you missed last night shame on you (no pun intended) and either way try and [...]