Month: June 2014

This is an exclusive new track taken from Big Toast's forthcoming Wedding Fund EP. Big Toast, TPS Fam's grumpy old man, is getting married (somehow) and to try pay for a few sausage rolls and frozen party snacks he plans to release a solo project called The Wedding Fund EP.

I Know, You Know is the new single from Bristol up-and-comer ThisisDA. It's been a while since ThisisDA dropped a new track, but this one definitely makes up for the absence. Check him out trading bars with Columbian rapper, Juan Pablo Giraldo, over production by Evil Needle and Freddie Joachim. ThisisDa continues pursuing new territory with his single releases, demonstrating his impressive versatility. The track is minimalistic and kinda skippy withh abstract flows.

The next release from De Facto Entertainment is courtesy of Brother Beatbox with his new album entitled 'Vol. III'. Brother Beatbox from the group Natural Selection takes another dip into his extensive vault of Hip Hop treasures and this release promises to carry on the success from which Vol. II and Transmissions left off demonstrating the soulful genius that is Brother Beatbox.

So far 2014 has been a superb year for Yorkshire's alternative hip hop dwellers - the Ceiling Demons. Since identical twin brother MCs Psy Ceiling and Dan Demon, along with producer Beat Demon released their acclaimed debut album 'Dual Sides', they have supported the phenomenal Young Fathers (Anticon / Big Dada) in the UK stretch of their world tour, been heralded by alternative hip hop legends Arrested Development, picked up and played on XFM by Scroobius Pip and have recently supported the mighty De La Soul on their 25 year anniversary tour of cult classic '3 Feet High & Rising' at York's YO1 Festival.

BBP have just dropped the debut single and associated video for 'Valhalla Rhyming', track put together by Habitat and DJ Severe. The track is taken from the forthcoming album 'Empire Building' which is due to drop on June 12th. This is a heavy-hitting, boom bap banger from the Heavy Links MC! The single features a remix from Remulak and bonus non-album cut 'Darkseid'.

A nice follow on from a very honest Heartbeat, Champion screams evolution of our underground Princess. Nyah demonstrates that she is independent, tenacious and is back with a track to be reckoned with! Not the first time Princess has taken her music from London to Ibiza, she proudly reintroduces herself to the music scene with her new single.

The debut album from Confucius MC entitled 'The Highest Order' dropped a couple of weeks back in May, exclusively on YNR, but we still needed to bring you this information. The album is a rare trans-channel Hip Hop collaboration with Parisian beat-smith Keor Meteor; who's smoky boom-bap provides the perfect sound-scape for Con's cerebral picture-painting. Eloquently constructed rhymes laid over a backdrop of atmospheric, cinematic production.

Releasing his debut album "Timing Is Everything" on 22nd July, Kid Vishis has emerged as one of Detroit's most talented lyricists over the past ten years. While still at school, his skills were honed during the "family freestyle basement sessions" with his elder brother Royce da 5 9, before touring initially as the Slaughterhouse veteran's hypeman. Over time, these shows saw him perform his own freestyle slots to sell out crowds nationwide, sharing bills with the likes of Rakim and Slick Rick, Ghostface and many more.

Bear With Me 2: Bear Sophisticated is the second instalment of T.Bear's, aka TB Tuberculosis', #BWM mixtape series. The release showcases the influence Tupac Amaru Shakur had on a worldwide generation of artists. Unwilling to copy or add to the many run of the mill versions of the late, great, Tupac's music, T.Bear has reworked and revisited the essence of originality and honesty in his favourite Tupac songs and re-expressed themes and feelings relevant to himself and the modern economical and societal conditions that affect those that dwell in the inner-city.

UK based musician, Just P, has taken to his exclusive YouTube channel to release a brand new official music video. 'The Melody' is the brand new official music video from independent musician, Just P. The track uses an instrumental originally used by US hip hop act 'The Left' and features on Just P's 'While I'm Away' EP, available for free download.