Tag: Tru-Tone

This month the Pioneers Hip Hop Show shines their light on Ricky Rennalls and the Hip Hop Alliance, beginning their journey in the early years of UK Hip Hop.

This month Pioneers Hip Hop Show travels to the early 90s (predominantly) to focus on a phenomenon that was particularly prevalent at the time: the proliferation of self-released white labels.

This month's Pioneers Hip Hop Show on Kane FM tells the story of iconic UK Hip Hop label Music Of Life, from it's beginnings in the mid 80s through to its reputation for breaking some of the greatest crews to come from the shores of the UK.

For the final show of 2023, the Pioneers Hip Hop Show does its customary round-up of our favourite Hip Hop tracks of 2023.

This month's Pioneers Hip Hop Show is the final in the Hip Hop At 50 series. Focusing on 1992, this time the show features a UK selection as taken from the Hip Hop chart of the time.

Whirlwind D alongside Specifik and Jabba Tha Kut performing 'Night Time' at the Bournemouth 02 supporting Public Enemy in 2015.

This month the Pioneers Hip Hop Show travels back to UK shores and shine a light on London-based Hip Hop label Liberty Grooves that ran from 1990-1999. During the show featured is music from the likes of the Gutter Snypes, Truestyle, Solid n Mind, KLM and Johnny F and much more.

Whirlwind D and Specifik returned to the fabulous Lindesfarne Festival this year. This is a small clip of them performing 'Do It Now', Whirlwind D's new single with Smoove.

This month's Pioneers show focuses on one of the unsung heroes of UK Hip Hop (and much more, but we focus on his work within hip hop), someone who has been synonymous with the culture since the late 80s right up until the present day...

This month's show focuses on relatively recent history, examining the story of B-Line Recordings from its inception in 2012 to the present day featuring music from Specifik, Chrome and Illinspired, Whirlwind D, The Doozer, Project Cee, Uncle Mic Nitro, Deeflux and Miracle, Jabba tha Kut and many more.