Leeds Hip Hop Scene

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Y’all know my boy Kidkanevil, right? Tokyorkshire’s finest scratch DJ/ producer with an album out called “Problems & Solutions” which you need in your collection. On vinyl, of course…

His live show is another thing entirely. What works cotching up in the studio with an MPC for company doesn’t necessarily translate perfectly to a club environment. [...]

var sburl6786 = window.location.href; var sbtitle6786 = document.title;My HHB Radio show saw an appearance by Minneapolis crew Tru Ruts (TruthMaze and EG Bailey), who we were lucky enough to catch in Leeds before they flew back to the States. Also in the place were Monkee from the Invizible Circle collective, talking about the forthcoming [...]

Abdominal first grabbed the attention of students and hipsters everywhere in 2001, when he appeared on an early release by Brighton-based DJ Format, a painfully retro piece of conceptual kitsch-hop entitled “Ill Culinary Behaviour”. That track, and I would imagine the majority of the duo’s collaborative efforts since, re-worked the seam of sickly nostalgia already [...]

J-Treole are a quartet from the London area who fuse Jazz and Hip-Hop to create a fresh, live-sounding mix on their debut CD, entitled “Minor Details”.

Immediate comparisons may initially and inevitably focus upon the influence of Philadelphia act The Roots, who arguably invented the concept of a rapper backed up by a live band - [...]

Jehst’s position as one of the most respected lyricists in the UK is more or less a given nowadays. His dense, intelligent rhymes take some getting into and his style is distinctive enough to divide opinion, but once you’ve break past the barrier and enter his world, the extent to which he dominates and defines [...]

This is our live show from Thursday 19th July, featuring three very talented heads from the Leeds scene - DJ / Producer Kidkanevil and MCs Testament and J Bravo. Beats, cuts and lyrics as usual, plus some beatbox action from Testament and an impromptu film review section. Pure random…

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