Month: May 2011

After a storming set at London's XOYO last night 25 year-old Jermaine Scott, aka Wretch 32 has announced a headline UK tour for October this year. Wretch 32 had an incredible start to the year. After being earmarked by BBC as a one to watch for their Sound of 2011 list, along with being hotly tipped by NME, MTV and HMV, as a rising music star he has gone on to achieve a top 5 debut smash with his first commercial single release, Traktor, and has just completed a tour with Example.

Faith SFX is without doubt one of the most in demand talents to emerge from the UK scene. Since his first shows supporting major urban acts when he was just 15 years old Faith quickly established himself as the go-to Beatboxer for the scene. Since then he's gone on to become a multi award winner, record adverts for the likes of Motorola, tour and performing alongside the likes of Jay Z, Plan B, Chipmunk and Ms Dynamite and amass over 10 million views of his videos on youtube.

Untold Songs: Volume One is a groundbreaking compilation of songs by female artists brought together from all across the globe. The compilation is being released through Jus Like Music Records in collaboration with Amnesty International to raise awareness and money for their "Stop Violence Against Women" campaign.

Atlantic Records’ rap sensation, Wiz Khalifa, will be hitting the UK shores this November for a headline tour. The run of dates will kick off at Glasgow’s O2 Academy on November 2nd and will include a London show at the prestigious O2 Brixton Academy on November 7th. Dates also include Newcastle, Bristol, Manchester, Southampton and Leeds.

A sultry voice with razor sharp wit and a stage show to match; Ladi6 is New Zealand's leading hip-hop soul artist who is fast emerging as an international star after live shows for Gil Scott-Heron, Mayer Hawthorne, Mos Def and Masta Ace. On the 8th of August, she drops game-changing sophomore album The Liberation Of....

Eso Tre and Subz are L.A. duo Substance Abuse. The former URB Next 100 picks dropped their debut Brand New Crime in 1998, following up with 2006's Overproof which featured Motion Man, Saafir and Rasco and received four-star marks from URB and Scratch. "We"re big fans of Tha Alkaholiks and have fond memories of going to the Coast II Coast release party back in the day, so working with Tash was a pretty surreal experience", says Eso.

As The European Survival Tour continues on, Seek finds himself in the studio with Lyon, France artist Don Smokilla. This multi-talented Hip Hop artist can rap in three different languages, English, French, and Madagascan. Here he shows off his skills with the latter. 'Where We From' is produced by Maescro. The video was also shot and edited by him. For more info check out the Seek's Fan Page, link is below.

Mr Flex from Chosen Spokesmen finally drops the much anticipated release of his superb 'Nothing To Prove EP'. Featuring production from some the UK's biggest beat-makers such as Kelakovski, Chemo, Risk Beats and Beat Butcha, this is EP is a must for UK Rap fans. The EP also features Chosen Spokesmen members Blick Kid, Danger The Sergeant and Modulation, as well as guest features from female vocalist Sophie and UK heavy-hitters Ramson Badbonez, Iron Braydz, Kosyne and DJ 456.

As a totally independent artist (no management, record label or outside funding) Mr ShaoDow (pronounced Sha-Ow-Dough) is no stranger to knock downs. At age 18 he traveled alone to China in order to learn Shaolin Kung Fu and fulfill a long held dream. Whilst studying the art of fighting he also discovered the art of music. At that time he began a journey that would span the whole of the UK.

While working on directing and editing videos for the Eat Good team, Redbeard has found the time to release some unreleased material on his Reverbnation site. There are five tracks in total, featuring production by Darren Paul, Roeg du Casq, Devas (T.L.G), Mikee Lazy (T.L.G) and R2thabeatz, these tracks also feature vocals from Sonnyjim, SK and Jimmy Davis.