A wrap on onthebuzz’s UK hip hop week, this will be visited again not only UK hip hop but UK music (so called.. urban) in general. Davinche (no codes to cracking the holy grail :P) is a classically trained (pianist and guitarist), aspiring and self taught producer and songwriter whose worked with Kano (Brown Eyes and [...]
May 30, 2009
Apart from the audio mixes featuring several soulful UK artists (Alice Russell), this week’s articles on onthebuzz are pretty male oriented, what the hell happened to equality and all that blues. This obviously rectifies of sorts with Speech Debelle (well is just the one…), an upcoming female hip hop artist with a smooth flow/rhyme of words/stories [...]
May 29, 2009
For this week we have kept things on the UK hip hop front, bringing to the fore accomplished artists in retired Braintax, Phi-Life Cypher to name a few. Continuing the UK week on onthebuzz, we thought it essential to create a mix of other UK artists (soul, hip hop, electronica) who did not make the cut [...]
May 28, 2009
Previously we highlighted and referenced some legends on the UK hip hop Braintax and Phi-Life Cypher. Doc Brown is by no means a newbie on UK hip hop block. The geezer is not only a fine UK rapper who worked alongside De La Soul, Mark Ronson, Busta Rhymes released albums Citizen Smith Volume I, The Document [...]
May 26, 2009
UK hip hop did come to prominence in the 1990’s and ealry 2000’s with equally as good a content as any on the world hip hop scene during the time. One of the pioneers and influential artist of the movement was Braintax (Joseph Christie) from Leeds and owner of the mainstay that was Low Life Records [...]
May 25, 2009
Phi Life Cypher are a hip hop group that hail from Luton in the UK. The group consist of Life, Si-Philli as the MCs and DJ Nappa as producer and pursuing solo projects besides. Phi Life Cypher have been together since 1996 releasing albums: Millennium Metaphors (2000), The Instrumentals (2000), Higher Forces (2003) and Playback (2006). [...]
May 23, 2009
Soon to wrap the music untapped US underground edition for this week, this is by no means the end, but the genesis of searching/researching quality hip hop (soulful, jazzy, alternative, christian etc), soul, neosoul from Africa to Europe hopefully broaden horizons maybe? We are drawn to another hip hop underground rapper and producer Donny Goines, bringing [...]
May 21, 2009
Any association with 9th Wonder one of the finest hip hop producer is mentioned, previewing got to be done, well its good music after all and that’s what we try and present/represent on this website. Enter the world of Wale a US rapper and producer who is working with 9th wonder on his upcoming mixtape Back To [...]
May 20, 2009
By far one of the most emotional, creative yet simple underground beat in the history of hip hop! When you’re in a cypher / freestyle session and a beat like this drops, You just hope the DJ kept it going long enough till the mic gets to you. The beat is very raw and it’s the [...]
May 18, 2009
See many or few say hip hop is dead, this notion in a sense can be attributed to the very commercialised hip hop overground maybe? At the end of the day, its what your music poison is, after all some of these commercial artistes that are despised have gone on to become legends, classic albums, [...]
May 17, 2009
OUR WORLD Trap, snap this slave chamber, we are at the mercy of the wars, paws of our fellow men and women who are suppose to meander and lose, break the bound chain of this chamber. What is! They revel take of their own with others hard earned paper/s and swelting blood. From the black, dark continent to [...]
May 16, 2009
Stacy Epps hails from Atlanta, US and gathered acclaim and respect amongst the underground hip hop scene. She brings her music vibe and flavour to the masses via alternative and independent means. Stacy Epps, “lyrics possesses an astute talent for insightful rhyming, what she calls the, “ultimate divine form of communication.” By lyrically wielding a heavy Uzi [...]
May 15, 2009
Nigerian born and raised musician, who does music for the love of it. She is the Future!!! Put away your Beyonce and Rhianna albums and listen to some good music! Nneka is an intelligent young woman, the girl next door type of artist who’s very original and puts a lot of energy into her music. Her style [...]
May 13, 2009
By Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur Hip-Hop lovers can rejoice: Nas and producer Pete Rock are working on music again. Together Nas and Pete Rock orchestrated some of the most meaningful, prolific music to in the 90’s when they collaborated on Nas’ seminal album Illmatic, which was released 15 years ago this year. “The World Is Yours” was an inspirational [...]
May 12, 2009
We are mixing up old and new’ish hip hop tracks, more rappy and reminiscent hip hop though. So here we go this is male/group oriented but the ladies are coming! 1. Track Title is Black Republican by artist Jay-Z and Nas on the album Hip Hop Is Dead released in 2006. 2. Track Title is LAX by [...]
May 31, 2009