Tag: kashmere

Fresh for you surfers is something pretty darn special. The latest release on the prolific, consistently dope Dented Records (Foreign Beggars / Skrein / Stig), comes this highly anticipated CD. "Trading Standards" is entirely comprised of original material, and features the country’s most talented emcees including Mercury Music Prize Nominee and MOBO Award Winning Soweto Kinch, Foreign Beggars, Jehst, Stig Of The Dump and Kashmere.

Representing real hip hop since 1999, Jehst’s YNR Productions imprint continues to set standards with yet again another certified banger, brought to you by none other then the beat-driven vinyl junkie Lenny Greenberg, aka LG.

Jehst's position as one of the most respected lyricists in the UK is more or less a given nowadays. His dense, intelligent rhymes take some getting into and his style is distinctive enough to divide opinion, but once you've break past the barrier and enter his world, the extent to which he dominates and defines a certain strain and style of UK Hip-Hop becomes both evident and wholly justifiable.

Already being called a definitive and groundbreaking collection of some of the UK’s strongest talent, and following the success of Vol. One HS Pro & Biggerman have embarked on this new project which is set to establish ‘Food 4 Da Brain’ as a solid platform for innovative hip hop.

DJ IQ first shot to fame by winning the youth version of the DMC competition. Since then he has continued to build his DJ rep and is now stepping up his game by including production into his list of abilities. This is his latest production for which he has assembled one of the most awesome MC line ups to grace wax.
 

A hip-hop producer and DJ of over ten years experience, Ghost's first 12", Ghost Stories, came out in 2002 and introduced Ghost's deeply musical approach. He developed his blueprint of hip hop with a nod to the past and an eye firmly on the future as 2 more singles followed on Breakin Bread and a number of his productions for MC's came out on other labels (Lowlife, Receptor, Suspect-Packages).
 

Last Thursday (09/02/06) Blade and MuffJam put on a tremendous live UK Hip Hop extravaganza worthy of any festival, but a tremendous bonus for the knock down price of £6.50. It was the launch night of Blade's new Guerrilla Tactics LP and Blade had called on a multitude of talent from across the country to come and take to the stage to kick it off in the right fashion. Blade is a long time stalwart of the scene, so you know when he calls the acts will come.

As the summer winds down the quality of releases heats up. UK's finest hip hop imprint, Lowlife Records, delve into their box of tasty treasures and serve up a kick ass slab of hip hop gems from their Lowlife stable.