Gotta add the 'Nextmen' to that list, had a little preview of an EP coming
out on scenario soon, BAD and even a little intelligent lyrics !
Also check the word of mouth compilation, all the latest UK crews you've
mentioned.
Easy
J
At 03:09 22/03/00 -0800, dj t-bird wrote:
>Who says the UK don't know Hip-Hop?!?!
>>
>> no one i know. the uk has only reinvented hiphop about 5 times
>(drum'n'bass,
>> big beat - best forgotten, so-called 'bristol' type shit etc etc) and now
>> its putting out some of the best stuff i get through my office... maybe
>i'm
>> biased as a contributor to ukhiphop.com but 95% of the stuff out of the
>u.s.
>> is all sugary puff daddy type nonsense.
>
>it's the best & worst of times for u.s. hiphop, in the words of erick sermon
>(!) "i'll stick to underground, you keep the cross-over." actually i'm not
>that hard-core, some groups i like are crossing over (e.g., styles of
>beyond) but they're not really going for the pop thing, they're just
>somewhat accessible to non-heads.
>
>> i'm not trying to put the US down at all ... just trying to big up the UK.
>
>u.s. heads need to recognize--the u.k. massive has skills!!
>
>> i suggest tracking down stuff by skitz, task force, numskullz, lewis
>parker,
>> braintax, blade, harry love, hundred strong, herbaliser, new flesh for
>old,
>> mystro... labels like hombre, lowlife, son, ruf beats, big dada, apeman,
>> deal real, ronin, jazz fudge, k-boro
>
>second on that emotion!! i'm not really down w/lewis parker & new flesh,
>but there's other talent on big dada i can get with --juice aleem & part 2,
>man like manuva!! don't forget funky d.l.--i know he can get kinda "pop"
>sometimes but he gets down, too.
>
>u.k. producers have been getting props for a while, but now there's a lot of
>m.c.s that are solid too.
>
>-t
>
>
>
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