Leeds Hip Hop Scene

One of the most important hip hop producers of all time, Brooklyn legend DJ Premier makes a much anticipated visit to Smokestack on his UK tour. Perhaps best known as the man who programmed the beats for Jazzmatazz and Gang Starr, Premier is renowned for his trademark East Coast style heavy drums and sparse loops [...]

That’s right 2 years old!!
It seems to have flown by and it’s been truly brilliant! You can read about me and Adam in the latest Leeds Student magazine and we’re planning something very soon to say thanks to all you loyal Leeds folks, so get your best clobber washed and ironed!!
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All new kidkanevil video from his new album “Back off Man I’m a Scientist”…

Foreign Beggars are back with a vengeance with cheeky track about poon tang on some French-dirty-house-rap-shit tip. Hit That Gash, the first single of their forthcoming album United Colours of Beggattron, is a collaboration with French super-group Rouge A levres, comprised of Deephop Panel Lynchpin Grems aka SuperMicro, Disiz La Peste and Le 4romain. Fusing [...]

I mentioned a few weeks ago that this show was coming to the UK well here’s the official details!!
The tour will hit the UK on 6th Nov at Birmingham Academy , the 9th Nov at London’s indigo2 and at Manchester’s Apollo on 12th November. The European tour will see Nas, Mos Def, Pharcyde, freestyle world [...]

‘144,000’ is dark, so if you don’t like dark Hip Hop shove off. Or you could stay, read and give it a chance. ‘Anthema’, the album by M9’s group Triple Darkness, came at a time when I wasn’t feeling rap’s more gloomy side. It changed my perspective and this album cements my new perspective [...]