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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
May 11, 2009
This week on onthebuzz we are mixing up some boom bap tracks. jazzy, old school’ish hip hop, anything at least soulful not just hip hop though. So here we go this is male/group oriented but the ladies are coming! 1. Track Title is Believe by artist Preach on the album Garveyism released in 2006. 2. [...]
May 9, 2009
The world wide web lets face it, its a fantastic bit of magic aint it good and bad. Conducting research on any type of subject in a search engine, similar entries are associated with the original search term, the temptation of straying is evident because we are curious creatures after all, in some cases it [...]
May 5, 2009
Onthebuzz.com this week will feature comedians/comedy shows from all corners of the globe. Today we start with the United Kingdom with stand up comedian Kojo Many a time when in comes to comedy you normally look to the US comedians, Capone, Bernie Mac, Chris Tucker etc. But you fail to look at the expansive array [...]
May 28, 2009