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 [...]
Archive for October, 2008
’144,000′ – M9 (album review)
October 10th, 2008
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‘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 in [...]
‘The Signature LP’ – Sway (album review)
October 7th, 2008
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‘The Signature LP’ – the UK’s biggest rap release this year. Sway – the UK’s brightest hope for world wide success. It’s that simple. You’re probably part of the hype surrounding this – I know I am – we know how much anticipation comes with the release of this album. The news of Sway’s signing [...]
Mongrel by name…
October 7th, 2008
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…Mongrel by nature. Apart from they’re not dogs. Well, they are probably all ‘dogs’ in friend-of-an-American-rapper sense. But some of them aren’t even rappers…well only one is. And he is Lowkey, a quiet mainstay of the UK Hip Hop scene. The rest of them are a motley assortment (hence the name – made up of [...]
‘State of Lunacy’ – Rhyme Asylum (album review)
October 7th, 2008
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Rhyme Asylum are the UK’s version of Non Phixion and that’s a good thing. Remember their 2002 album ‘The Future is Now’? It featured Pete Rock, Large Pro, DJ Premier and Beatnuts production – on ‘State of Lunacy’ Leatherface rivals the greats in freshness and headnodability. And despite the dark overtones it’s not the least [...]
