Leeds Hip Hop Scene

For his latest release, the Tokyo-born, Bay Area-raised rapper Tom “Lyrics Born” Shimura employs live instrumentation instead of the sample-heavy textures of his 2003 solo debut, “Later That Day …” Though hip-hop purists may wince, the musical shift only further helps Lyrics Born expand on his own genre-bending sensibility.
On the enjoyable “Everywhere At Once,” the [...]

Its undeniable, The Elementz are making their own lane. Following a two year hiatus Nottingham’s finest production team return with Crushmode a compilation LP featuring the cuts that fuelled the duo to record of the week on BBC Radio 1Xtra coupled with brand new galaxy-stirring material. Neither Zoutr nor Liati have hung up their zero [...]

D’YA LIKE SCRATCHIN’?
Check - check fans of the LHHS, searching for this album was worth every effort, although only 35 minutes long you really do have to pick this up. It’s brought on the scene by FATBEATS in New York and allows TOTAL ECLIPSE; ROB SWIFT & PRECISION to start the [...]

Mystic Man, with an approach to production that’s just that bit too elusive to put your finger on, has crafted a superb set of sonic canvasses for rapper Eshamanjaro to wave his lyrical brush over, and he does it with the flourish of a true master too. In the art world you’d be hard pushed [...]

 
To coincide with the release of his first album, I met up with Leeds MC, Instance. We had a chat, a couple of jars (one in The Bourbon where the music was too loud and they charged a quid to get in and another in a Wetherspoons of all places… well, they had no [...]

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