Last week The Scribes played at Trinity in Bristol with The Herbaliser. They were kind enough to drop a few cheeky bars for us literally minutes before the show was about to start. These dudes are not only super talented, and musically, a really interesting
group, but also some of the nicest people we’ve met within hip-hop (it made us love this scene just that little bit more). I strongly suggest you go check them out once you’ve watched this video, but if you need help being convinced you can read a short review of their new record that we posted last week.
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For those of you living in the old LDN, The Ruby Kid is hosting a regular spoken word/hip-hop/generally good music night, featuring some really interesting artists in around the hip-hop and spoken word scene. It’s not strictly hippity hoppity, which in my eyes is a good thing because I don’t know about you, but I eat all genres for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. I can’t get enough of music, fill my musical belly up please…If you didn’t enjoy that weird little metaphor then you’ll be glad to know there’ll be people at ‘Out-Spoken’ doing a better job of creating imagery and narrative with their words. So get yourself on down and check it out for yourselves.
Aimee
This months features:
CHIMENE SULEYMAN – poet and storyteller from north London, whose stories capture the regeneration and decay, the despair and the hopeful possibility or life in the modern city. Chimene hosts “Kid, I Wrote Back”, one of London’s finest poetry showcases/open mics. –www.chimenesuleyman.com
RACHEL ROSE REID – a multi-platform artist whose poems, stories, and songs collide the old with the new and tradition with modernity. She is the Dickens 2012 Bicentenary Writer In Residence, and has been called “queen of the new wave storytellers” by BBC Radio 3. – http://www.rachelrosereid.com/
ANTHONY ANAXAGOROU – Out-Spoken founder and spoken-word poet presents poems from his forthcoming collection ‘A Difficult Place To Be Human’ including new pieces written during his recent two-month visit to South East Asia. Anthony has performed alongside artists including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dick Gregory, Akala, and his work has been interpreted by the world-famous Cirque de Soleil. – www.anthonyanaxagorou.com
Rapper:
JUICE ALEEM – a pioneer of avant-grade UK hip-hop, this Birmingham rapper was the first hip-hop artist to be signed to indie label Big Dada/Ninja Tune (preceding Roots Manuva, Wiley, and others). He has played all over the world, working extensively with Def Jux alumnus Mike Ladd as part of The Infesticons. – http://www.twitter.com/AleemSaRaSun
“On November 20th, Wu-Tang Clan affiliate/Guinness World Record Freestylist M-Eighty will drop the highly anticipated album “Home Grown Internationally Known”. The LP pays tribute to the rappers hometown of Toledo, OH by featuring all Toledo-based Emcees and Producers alongside the pairing of M-Eighty & newcomer and fellow Toledo native Nino Graye. The duo known as “Glass City”, will be embarking on a 15-date Midwest tour in November alongside the likes of Kid Ink, Cappadonna, & Bronze Nazareth in support of their debut. Fans can expect several videos spawning from the LP’s release including featured tracks “Hip-Hop Glory”, “911”, “Burn it Up”, “Lose My Sheeeit!” & the collegiate-anthem “FAH-Q”.
When asked how the duo came up with the name for their group and the title for their debut, M-Eighty remarked by stating, “I am a home grown product of Toledo, OH who never stopped loving my roots and 30-years later I am that internationally recognized Artist/A&R/Executive that people notice and I still keep it 1000% with my peers. “Glass City” is a nickname for Toledo, OH aka The Renaissance City and though the group is just Nino and I, we definitely showed a lot of love to the artists grinding in Toledo and gave the community a sense of hope that big things can happen if we all learn to motivate and persevere together.” GlassCity“Home Grown Internationally Known” drops 11-20-12 on Holy Toledo Productions/Flow-4-Ever Entertainment.”
As promised, our first every video shot exclusively for Hip-Hop Life & Times. It’s been a few months in the works, and we couldn’t have picked any better MCs to hit our freestyle/bars videos off with than South West rappers, Twizzy and Jinxsta. These guys absolutely smashed it, along with the talents of our in-house beatboxer Matt Ryder. Watch and enjoy, and subscribe to our Youtube page as we’ll be posting more videos and our bi-weekly podcast up on there from now on.
If you’d like to feature on this, then get in touch with either Stix or myself via our email/twitter/facebook or Youtube accounts.
Also, if you’re feeling these guys then check out the links below to listen to more of their material.
Evening! Well after the storming success of our first podcast, we thought well we’ve gotta give the public what they need. I’ll tell you now that all our phones have been blowing up since then, none of us have had a spare 5 minutes to ourselves. Coke and Enron and Tescos want to give us all their money, but yo we’re gutter kids yeah we won’t sell out for anything!
Anyway aside from that little make-believe, the response was pretty good and so much so we thought we would keep this bi-weekly. This episode we play some classic Immortal Technique, Slick Rick and ODB. As well as the latest underground tracks from Astroid Boys, John Vietnam, Q-Unique, A.C, Tricksta, Reveal, Dr Syntax and loads more. We also update you about our up and coming filming projects with Bristol MCs Twizzy and Jinxsta, and tell you more about The Ruby Kid and Tricksta, the artists that we’ll be interviewing for the future podcasts. This whole episode also demonstrates how to pronounce people’s names wrong; it takes a certain kind of genius that’s for sure. As well as talking about how having a dog is much better than having a child.
So two weeks ago, we posted our first podcast. The response was pretty good and you can listen to it on our/Stix’s Soundcloud so we’ve decided to make it into a permanent bi-weekly thing. The premise of the podcast was to bring people music they might not be aware of, and some classics, and have a little chat about the current state of hip-hop. Last week we played a bunch of new underground jams by UK and U.S artists, and a few classics. A few of the people we included were RZA, Datkid (Split Prophets), Book Thieves, Three Headed Beast, A Tribe Called Quest, Too Many Ts, Jae Apollo, Doomtree and a load more.
This weekend will follow that same narrative of our previous podcast, the next two that follows it will however have interviews from London based MC The Ruby Kid, and UK Promotor/Producer Tricksta from Park Street PR and UK Runnings.
This is something we want to expand upon and get more cats involved with, which is why if you have any artists or tracks you think we need to be exposed to then get in touch with us via our Facebook page, Twitter or email.
We’ll be recording it Saturday night so you can message us up until 9pm UK time.
Not too sure how many of you have seen this, but I thought it’s worth a watch. Charlie Sloth (BBC Radio 1Xtra) travels around the UK hooking up with different locals artists, and finding out about what they’re doing on their side. Whether you live in Britain or not, I think it’s quite an interesting documentary and showcases some really good up and coming talent. Charlie Sloth doesn’t always know what he’s talking about, you know us underground kids will always be too cool for school, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
It features:
Astroid Boys
Mr Phormula & Hoax Emcee
Flow Dem
Goldie Lookin Chain
Jun Tzu
Dan Magill
Sketch Nine
Madhat McGore
Deko
Respek BA
Werd (S.O.S)
Bigg Taj
English Frank
RoxXxan
Tez Kidd
Shotty Horroh
Mic Righteous
The boys in Too Many T’s will be releasing their debut mixtape ‘Earl Necks & Round Grey’ for free this Friday. We’ve been big fans of these guys for a long time (we even featured one of their tracks on our podcast last week), and we’re stoked that they’re finally released a full mixtape, but if you can’t wait that long you can download a free track now from this link.
Also, the group recently preformed on stage Belladrum 2012. with folk band Hoodja, and mashed two of their songs together. It works surprisingly well, and I suggest you take a cheeky peek.
On October 22, 2012, Vinnie will release his sophomore solo album God of the Serengeti featuring production by DJ Premier, Havoc (Mobb Deep), Psycho Les (Beatnuts), Marco Polo, C-Lance and more with guest appearances by Scarface, Mobb Deep, Immortal Technique, La Coka Nostra, Army of the Pharaohs, Kool G. Rap, R.A. the Rugged Man and others. The 18-track album promises to add another chapter in the growing legacy of Vinnie Paz’s uncompromising brand of hardcore hip-hop. Here’s a new video for, “The Oracle,” produced by non-other then DJ Premier from Vinnie Paz’s upcoming sophomore solo-album God of the Serengeti.
You can also download his previous single release ‘7 Fires of Prophecy’ from his Soundcloud account.
1.) “Shadow Of The Guillotine” f/ Q-Unique (produced by DJ Lethal)
2.) “Slum Chemist” (produced by C-Lance)
3.) “The Oracle” (produced by DJ Premier)
4.) “And Your Blood Will Blot Out The Sun” f/ Immortal Technique & Poison Pen (produced by Tony Kenyatta)
5.) “Last Breath” f/ Chris Rivers (aka Baby Pun) & Whispers (produced by C-Lance)
6.) “Crime Library” f/ Blaq Poet (produced by Marco Polo)
7. “Feign Submission” (Interlude) (produced by JBL the Titan)
8. “Duel To The Death” f/ Mobb Deep (produced by Stu Bangas)
9.) “Problem Solver” f/ Scarface (produced by The Arcitype)
10.) “Battle Hymn” f/ Apathy, King Syze, Crypt the Warchild, Jus Allah, Esoteric, Blacastan, Celph Titled & Planetary (produced by Mr. Green)
11.) “Geometry of Business” f/ La Coka Nostra (produced by Havoc)
12.) “Jake LaMotta” (produced by Illinformed)
13.) “7 Fires Of Prophecy” f/ Tragedy Khadafi (produced by Beatnick Dee)
14.) “Cheesesteaks” (produced by Psycho Les)
15.) “Cold, Dark, and Empty” f/ FT and Smoke (produced by Jack Of All Trades)
16. “Razor Gloves” f/ R.A. the Rugged Man (produced by MTK)
17.) “Wolves Amongst The Sheep” f/ Kool G. Rap & Block McCloud (produced by C-Lance)
18.) “You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train” (produced by C-Lance & JBL the Titan)
19.) “Kingdom Crusher” f/ Block McCloud (produced by Paul Nice) *****BONUS TRACK
Last, but not least, you can catch Vinnie Paz and ILL BILL on tour together this fall. This is just the first round of confirmed dates. We’ll be announcing the European tour details and other dates as we go. Tickets for all shows on sale soon.
11/2/12 – Brooklyn, NY – Knitting Factory
11/3/12 – Philadelphia, PA – TBA
11/5/12 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
11/6/12 – Albany, NY – Bogie’s
11/7/12 – Toronto, ON – The Opera House
11/8/12 – Grand Rapids, MI – Intersection
11/9/12 – Chicago, IL – Subterranean
11/14/12 – Las Vegas, NV – TBA
11/16/12 – Los Angeles, CA – Key Club
11/17/12 – Oakland, CA – The New Parish
11/18/12 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
11/27/12 thru 12/16/12 – European Tour
LATE releases his brand new four track EP ‘The Hip-Hop Representer’ produced by Tricksta. Featuring the street smash ‘We Get It Worldwide’ featuring Fes Taylor, the underground anthem ‘Enter The Sector’ featuring cuts from Jabba Tha Kut, as well as ‘Scientific Wordplay’ and the brand new video ‘In The Lab’ featuring Calico this is real Hip-Hop!
