Leeds Hip Hop Scene

 
Certified Banger: There’s not much need in recounting your musical past, everyone reading this will know for sure! We can start instead with you filling us in on the years between the Demon Boyz and ‘Dogz ‘n’ Sledgez’.
Million Dan: The years between the Demon Boyz and Dogz N Sledgez were very BIG years for [...]

Words: Nino
Joe Driscoll is the true definition of an artist; painting and spraying rhythm, sculpting words and weaving integrity into what is undoubtedly some of the most inspirational music of the 21st Century. His fresh one man band throw up of singing, rapping, beat boxing plus playing the guitar, harmonica and more with the aid [...]

 
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 [...]

 
It seems as though in all this ‘true hip hop’ palava we’ve forgotten who the true saviours of the scene really are. They don’t have to be rockin the stereotypical dress or accent. It’s about having a pure, rooted, hip hop mentality. And of course, some genuine talent to go with it.Don’t Talk To Strangers [...]

This is a video interview we filmed with the Silent Soundz men of the hour, Verb T and The Last Skeptik, it was filmed a couple of months ago at the HiFi Club in Leeds as they prepared to take to the stage.

This is the added web extras from the interview; here we find the [...]

After a complete pisstake of a train journey(the conductor was kind enough as to make us feel like we were on a fucking Blackpool tour bus - ‘If you look to your left you will see the overflowing riverbank with the waves steadily rising towards us’).
The perfect distraction from my frustration was a reet ol’ [...]