Month: November 2005

Two years ago Idea started spitting truth and thought provoking hip hop, The town of Slough (West london) where he was brought up currently has a small local rap scene. Idea started spitting and joined lots of online forums to elevate his skills.
 

Gouki Productions are from Macclesfeild / Manchester and consists of Chris (MC), Rob (MC), Ben B (MC), Ants (Producer), Jut (Producer) and Matt R (Producer/MC). Originally the group was formed in 2002, by Ants, Jut & Chris. Then during the release of Chris' 1st promo they met up with Ben & Rob. A few months later Matt R was thrown into the mix.
 

Play It Again Sam imprint Genuine was launched in January 2002 as a dedicated outlet for soul-based repertoire. Looking to develop authentic artists in an organic way most releases will carry a vinyl-based focus, even if our emphasis is not always on the dance floor.

Kool Keith AKA Dr. Octagon, is most renowned for being in the seminal, old school NYC hip hop trio, Ultramagnetic MCs. Hailing straight out of the mean side of the Bronx, Kool Keith has redefined the conventional hip hop styles and introduced a warped, bizarre take on the genre.

Ok, well its more like Foreign Beggar, as human beatbox genius Shlomo from Foreign Beggars plays live on the BBC’s flagship music programme ‘Later with Jools Holland’ TONIGHT, Friday November 18th!!!!. Shlomo will be performing a 5 minute beatbox showcase alongside other guests including Sean Paul, Texas, Babyshambles, Salif Keita, Peter Kay and Teddy Thompson. 

Coming out on Filthy Habits the new single from MCConflix and super producer The Last Skeptik entitled Think Twice is a smooth stormer with a touch of inteigence and groove, components that are rarely married these days.
 

Area 51 Entertainment, Inc. are back with their re-mastered presentation "Know Who You Wit '2006". A high powered rolling beat produced by DJ KQuick propels this powerful expose of the Area 51 click as they ask do you know who you rollin wit?. The main performers are MCs Snake Hollywood, AbSOUL & Nyghtmare. The re-mastering work was done by Randy at Analog Acoustics, Inc. and he has the resulting sound sweetly polished.
 

My name is Jake and I live in the almighty Shropshire near a little town called church Stretton, as you can probably tell this may be the last place you would have thought of making hip-hop.
 

Definition of Choong: anything that's heavy, gully, denoting a particular flavour of excellence.