Big French releases his first official video Nothing’s Promised which sees him talking about what he wants in his future, his past and seeing better days.
December 20, 2013
Reload Central – LOTM5 Allstars [Music Video]
Lord Of The Mics is the highest new entry in the official charts this week after being released on Monday and went straight in at No.11 of the official album charts. Here is the video to this years anthem with the LOTM5 allstars featuring Jammer, Maxsta, Big Shizz, Blizzard, Lil Nasty, Realz, D2, Lil Choppa & Zeo.
December 20, 2013
Young Mad B – Meditation [Music Video]
Young Mad B drops the video to Meditation a track about life struggles taken from his recently released album Stress Relief. Mv3
December 18, 2013
Murda Siraq – A Brick From The Block [Free Download]
Murda Siraq has been warming us up for the release of his A Brick From The Block mixtape by dropping a few videos in the last week including Murda and Out Here. His 21 track tape is now available to download and features Youngs Teflon, Bellzey, Timbar and more.
Download – Murda Siraq – A Brick From The Block here
December 18, 2013
Giggs – Mr Kool BBC 1Xtra Live Lounge
Giggs takes to the 1Xtra Live Lounge with Trevor Nelson for his live session of Mr Kool which features Anthony Hamilton and is taken from his recently released album When Will It Stop. This is pretty cool check it out.
December 17, 2013
Bigz – My Funked Up Soul [Free Download]
Bigz returns with My Funked Up Soul for free download. The 16-track mixtape is produced by Turkish Dcypha and only sees one collaboration with J Warner. Bigz is a great lyricist and it’s good to see him showing off his skills on this tape. He blends hip hop and soul for this impressive piece of work. Check out the stream below and get downloading.
December 17, 2013
Lord of the Mics V – Allstars ft Jammer, Maxsta, Big Shizz, Blizzard, Lil Nasty, Realz, D2, Lil Choppa & Zeo [Audio]
2013 sees some of the most eagerly anticipated emcee battles of modern day rap with two of East London’s biggest underground rappers; Maxsta (signed to Sony imprint Just Jam) and Lil Nasty going head to head, plus the North vs South, battle of all time, between Manchester’s Blizzard and East London’s Big Shizz (signed to Virgin EMI).
In true Lord of the Mics style, the search for raw talent has travelled the full length and depth of the UK and representatives from Birmingham, Derby, Manchester and London have been carefully selected to step up to the mic and fight for their place and reputation.
The DVD and audio CD is available now from all good outlets.
December 17, 2013
Ard Adz, Sho Shallow & K’More – Lose My Head [Music Video]
Brixton rappers Ard Adz and Sho Shallow take it down a different vibe for their new track Lose My Head featuring bashment artist K’More, gives in a kind of summery feeling in this cold winter.
December 17, 2013
MTV The Wrap Up: UK Rap Rundown [News]
This week is all about the Lord Of The Mics release and all last week we saw it being talked about everywhere on the social networks and blogs and sites supporting the movement started by Ratty and Jammer…
The press launch party also took place last week, which saw press being invited down to watch the clashes before the release and everyone talking about their opinions of who won. Some of the opinions were quite definite, others were hard to tell. Now its out, I’m sure a lot of you have watched it, what do you think?
The Allstars track was also unleashed on radio and on Soundcloud for us to hear and featured Jammer, Maxsta, Big Shizz, Blizzard, Lil Nasty, Realz, D2, Lil Choppa and Zeo. Check it out now!
Goldie 1’s name has been popping up this year quite a lot on the rap circuit and I definitely like his style, he’s brought something different to the table. A very trappy style which features two of my favourites who are just getting bigger and better and have had an incredible year Sho Shallow and Ard Adz and also a strong verse from Ayo Beatz.
Two South London rappers join forces for this new club banger which sees Ghost from Squeeze 4 Ps collaborate with SN1’s Giggs. The two deliver some hard bars over a dark instrumental. Look out for more to come from Ghost next year.
One of Grime’s hardest duo’s the Newham Generals last week dropped another video this one entitled ‘Passion.’ The track was premiered on Mistajam’s show on 1Xtra recently with the video being released soon after last week and shows the General’s passion for Grime still.
Alwayz Recording artist Yellows brought out his ‘Yellows Pages 2’ EP and we should be expecting more visuals from it very very soon. The mixtape sees collaborations from Sneakbo, Paigey Cakey, Fuze BW and more. Make sure you go and get that now.
December 10, 2013
MTV The Wrap Up: UK Rap Rundown [News]
Last week I attended Lil Nasty’s ‘Nasty Piece Of Work’ EP launch at Silk Club in Camden. The EP itself will be available to buy on iTunes on December 16. Lil Nasty, Flirta D and Jammer performed for us on the night.
On the subject of grime last week saw a few of the Lord Of The Mics hype sessions being released including the ‘headline’ clash between Lil Nasty and Maxsta. We also saw Grimmy and Grim Sickers, D2 and Eyez, Proton and Realz, Lil Choppa and Zeo’s hype sessions. More should be dropping next week.
Two of the finest South London rising rappers Dru Blu and Fekky came together for a collaboration on Dru Blu’s recent album ‘Double Or Nothing’. Last week they released the video to this banger which sees Dru delivering some of his hardest bars and Fekky’s classic ad libs.
I talked about the release of Murda’s mixtape ‘A Brick From The Block’ a few weeks ago so if you missed that and want to see what he’s about go and get that now. Last week he also dropped a video from the tape titled ‘Murda’ where he talks through his experiences for this street track.
Next up we have more artists from South London, an area that’s always been strong in the UK rap game. Brixton’s DVS, Syikes and Naja (Mr Sozah) headed down to Westwood’s crib to showcase some new fiery hot bars for this outstanding freestyle.
More fire from Brixton this one called the ‘A Town Line Up’ and sees C1z (A Money and Lil Trev), Sneakbo, Lil Shak, Ribbz, Mr Sozah, Crazy, Feel Fr33 and more. The ten minute track sees them all spitting some hardcore bars on this ten minute long track. Make sure you go and check out this talent from Angel Town.
Musically he’s been quiet for a little while now not having released any tracks of his own. Last week Ex from USG took to Twitter to release two unheard tracks on his Soundcloud ‘Stack It To The Loft’ and ‘Wonderin’. We will probably see these two tracks on his forthcoming mixtape ‘The Ex Files’ which should be out this month.
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