Leeds Hip Hop Scene

On Thursday 29th November I had the Crackhouse Allstarz - AKA MCs PCP, Instance and No Change - up in the studio to represent their Leeds-based label, Crackhouse Recordings on the Straight Out Leodis show.

Download and stream the show from britishhiphop.co.uk - more info on the page.
Just a quick reminder also - earlier in the [...]

It’s a cold Friday December night in Leeds and Aidan Severs is stood outside the Atrium club with the IRS boys trying to get an interview out of them before they hit the stage and tear it up with their usual brand of comedy and social commentary…
Can you tell me who we’ve got here first?
Ed [...]

Seems Christmas has come early for me this year.Last week some tubby old guy in a red suit came up to me in the skuzzy little ‘after hours’ bar that is The George. Very quietly he slid a CD under my beer mat. I did not react, continuing my hand of Black Jack, but I [...]

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Pat D a beat maker and sometime DJ, creates Jazzy and Soulful beats. Influenced by numerous artists and producers, from Jazz to Soul to Hip-Hop. Pat creates music he himself enjoys listening to and tries to work with artists that follow similar ethics to himself. He’s put out [...]

I was chatting to Wisdomtooth the other day about the lyrical content in Hip Hop and most importantly the intellectual fodder we are provided by many mainstream artists… so I got down to thinking and decided I’d put down a couple of my favourite worst Hip Hop/Rap lyrics into the public domain:
NOTORIOUS B.I.G. - Whats [...]

When I was younger I was taught to play the piano. Nowadays I’m not too hot on the old keys but whenever I get a little chance I’ll tinkle those ivories. My repertoire consists of half of ‘Maple Leaf Rag’ by Scott Joplin, ‘Tiger Blues’ by Christopher Norton and a number of Hip Hop piano [...]