Leddie and Smoggy (L&S) are a positive UK Hip Hop duo from Middlesborough, UK. Leddie is a 22 year old female Hip Hop artist and producer and Smoggy is a 24 year old male Hip Hop artist. In advance of their LP they have been regularly dropping taster tracks.

London rapper Baby Blue has announced her plans for the third installment of 'Paper Haters', her current single, taken from her forthcoming debut album. The rapper is hoping to find three new talents by offering up Davinche’s energetic beat to her fans.

Skillzbeatz is one of the UK's formidable forces in HipHop, he doesn't limit himself there though even branching out into R&B, Drum & Bass and really anything from urban music to pop. He has always worked exclusivly with artists notching up credits with well known acts and companies such as...

Think deep concentration, combined with phat beats and rhymes. There isn't an artist in the game that this DJ hasn't pushed at some time or another. He’s been a backbone and nurtured the game from behind the scenes and has never turned his back on it.

Divine Count Stone is yet another new moniker for Bionic. Bionic is a legend having come to prominence in 1987 as a member of the London Posse, one of the earliest groups in the UK Hip Hop scene. After an extended hiatus, the original ambassador of UK Hip Hop has returned with a brand new look and a fresh new sound.

Pharoahe Monch W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) is a 13-track album with an eclectic mix of feature artists such as Jill Scott, Styles P, Immortal Technique, Vernon Reid, Citizen Cope, Phonte, Jean Grae, Mr. Porter, Idris Elba, Royce Da 5'9" and more. The album has production from Marco Polo, M-Phazes, Diamond D, Exile, Pharoahe Monch himself and more...

The Anthology of Rap is an exceptional book and certainly the most appropriate present I’ve ever been given (thanks Sis!). After unwrapping it I stared suspiciously at it for several hours as if it was some kind of alien artifact or the ark of the covenant. I had not been aware of it before and it looked big and interesting.

Skandal made a big splash at the beginning of last year with his debut Project A and Hunger Pains. But true creativity is all about re-birth and re-invention and so Skandal has metamorphosed into Rewd Adams and is back with a new LP Rewd Awakening. Read on to find out what has changed since Britishhiphop.co.uk last spoke to Rewd Adams.

The Big Chill Presents returns for its first event of 2011 launching a brand new monthly residency from our favorite on-demand radio platform Mixcloud who kick things off with a very special Big Chill Presents event titled History Of Hip-Hop. Headed up by a very special guest DJ from Ninja Tune, Mixcloud have assembled a task-force of killer DJs to deliver past, present and future sets from one of the most important musical genres of the 20th Century!

Kieren Dickins aka DELS is a new type of rapper (which is another way of saying that he’s more than just a rapper). Applying the kind of attention to detail, micro-management and macro-vision which Jay-Z used to build a business empire, DELS makes art. Popular art mind you, but art all the same, an album of emotional peaks, musical innovation and surreal, brilliant lyrics, held together by such a unique, such a strong vision that it sounds almost silly to suggest it’s just a debut.