Leeds Hip Hop Scene

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’ [...]

1. Can you tell us your necessary background details so we can build on basics for the rest of the interview? For example: who you are, where you are from, projects you have worked on, people you have worked with.
I’m Beirut Music from Los Angeles, CA. My family isLebanese-Armenian, and I was born in Beirut, [...]

It’s a cold Friday December night in Leeds and Aidan Severs is stood outside the Atrium club with the IRS boys trying to get an interview out of them before they hit the stage and tear it up with their usual brand of comedy and social commentary…
Can you tell me who we’ve got here first?
Ed [...]

Words: Nino
Like a good Chinese soup nothing goes to waste with Chief Wiggum. He utilises his background, personality and intellect to their full potential in every breathing moment. For a malnutritioned hip hop culture he is the pure soul we crave. Ahead of some mintin new projects, and the new album which in stores form [...]

Aidan Severs catches up with LG to discuss his influences and career to date.
For those not in the know can you introduce yourself?
I’m from London. I started Sit Tight Records with Lopez a good few years back and we put out:
Rocket Fuel feat Jehst & Skriblah / City Breaks featuring Yungun 12″ (which I produced)
Micall [...]

This an exclusive video interview for LHHS - we were fortunate enough to meet up with Jehst, Micall Parknsun, Sir Smurf Lil and LG at their recent gig at New Bohemia in Leeds. We sat down and chatted about UK Hip Hop, Yorkshire, the Mengi Bus Mixtape, Aubergines and check for some exclusive footage from [...]