Music Videos
So I’m going to take full responsibility and say I should have posted this a LONG time ago. In fact I should’ve posted anything by Twizzy since we first started HHLAT. In my defense…I’m rubbish. So to make for my negligence here’s Bristol based (best city son!) rapper Twizzy featuring M.A.B and DJ Skint, produced by Bailey’s Brown and directed by Chris Lucas. Awesome flow, clever lyrics and a consistency that so many are lacking nowadays. Bonus points for the South West twang!
Look out for an interview with the man himself in the near future!
http://twizzy.bandcamp.com
http://abnoxshuz.bandcamp.com
http://arunproductions.co.uk
High Focus Records is proud to present NATURE’S GREATEST MYSTERY, the first album from brand new collective THE FOUR OWLS…
Deep in the High Focus catacombs, Nature’s Greatest Mystery has been gathering in force. For years the underworld has been buzzing to the sound of a new band of lyricists, a feathered troop of strigiformes unlike anything the world has seen before. It is only now, one month before the apocalypse, that mankind is finally ready for the full force of Nature’s Greatest Mystery.
This parliament of owls hover in cypher circles gripping microphones with their iron talons, leaving humans in the wake of their earthly knowledge. Led by the merciless BIG OWL (FLIPTRIX), guided by the teachings of BIRD T (VERB T), entertained by the do-or-die spirit of RUSTY TAKE-OFF (BVA MC) & inspired by the inventions of DEFORMED WING (LEAF DOG), The Four Owls have played in the shadows for long enough and are ready to take flight with their debut single Lights Off, a head-nodding classic that BIRD T accurately describes as “true hip hop”. Produced entirely by High Focus artist Leaf Dog and joined in the woods by an all-star list of collaborators including High Focus label mates Dirty Dike on Much Too Much and Jam Baxter on The Balance Of Life, plus the phenomenal Q-Unique on the epic across the pond club banger Champion, THE OWLS are unlike anything you have heard before.
Nature’s Greatest Mystery is High Focus Records most ambitious release to date. The label has quickly gained a reputation for pushing boundaries in a scene that has grown desperate for a new type of binocular vision. The FOUR OWLS are responsible for a modern day classic, fourteen tracks of straight up-and-down head banging rhythms, undiluted lyricism and conceptual brilliance. Who said UK hip hop was dead? Just look to the skies.
The time has come for The Four Owls to descend silently from their colony in the highest mountain peaks and unleash a wave of hip hop unlike anything you mere humans have heard before.
THIS IS THE AGE OF THE OWL.
Now because I’m lucky enough to have some kind of platform in order to hop on my little soapbox knowing that at least 3 people are reading this, I’m going to use this opportunity to promote some of my personal favourites. Why? Why not? But I’ve got fantastic taste so it’s okay you’re safe.
Tonight I’m going to point your attention towards my favourite hip-hop group of all time since I was a little shorty wearing oversize t-shirts and swearing at old ladies. Blestenation (pronounced Bless the nation) are 2 MCs and a DJ/producer from New York. They’re a straight up hip-hop group but also merge other genres with their sound to create some of the best songs my little ears have ever heard. The lyrical content ranges from the super bizarre, to party anthem to introspective and social-political. Most topics covered. They’re not gangstas, they’re straight-up hip-hop kids, and I once read a bio that said “With so many drug dealers getting a chance to tell their story in hip-hop, don’t you think it’s time to hear what their customers have to say?”
I’m a bit of a fangirl so in my eyes these guys can do no wrong but I guarantee you won’t be disappointed. Look out for a review of their 2010 release “MBugout City” in the coming days from this very same site. Also, for those that do know Blestenation if you’ve got “Zombie Slave County” and “The Countdown” I’m missing those releases from my collection after loosing all my music files a year back.
Enjoy!
