Leeds Hip Hop Scene

I thought I’d better direct you to an interesting interview by our regular contributor Analogue with Jehst over on Britishhiphop.co.uk - where he chats about his new release “Mengi Bus Mixtape“, his record label and Leeds dynamic duo Double D Dagger…
Enjoy
http://www.britishhiphop.co.uk/features/interviews/jehst.html

[ September 22, 2007; 2:00 pm; 2:00 pm; ] All dayer

Hip Hop @ the Jockey, Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Doors 2pm

Acts include 

Freyed Knot

Northern Beats

Skint and Demoralised

Jolean and the Rich T’s

http://myspace.com/3demonz

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