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It’s always a cringeworthy moment whenever a tabloid newspaper misinterprets a crossover urban act as UK Hip Hop due to their attire of baggy clothes and bling. It’s cringeworthy because fans of the genre know that the “real” UKHH scene has boasted some of the best and purest acts in recent history including
Skinnyman,
Klashnekoff and one of the forefront groups of the scene, the
Foreign Beggars. With an impressive 12 year lifespan, the group return with their fourth offering of beats, rhymes and life without any US twang or autotuned divas on the choruses.
United Colours of Beggattron continues to keep to the traditional legacy of UK Hip Hop with an impressive array of cuts filled with samples, scratches and head nodding beats.
When it comes to the genre of UK rap music, there are certain veterans in the game that have stayed underground and Logic is one of them. After dropping a fair few mixtapes and three underground albums spanning over a decade, with affiliations to south London rap collective PDC and playing the role of Peoples Army general alongside Lowkey and DJ Snuff, Logic has dropped his new album “True Talk” in collaboration with new producer Last Resort that features some weighty link ups from Maverick Sabre, Klashnekoff, Akala, Lowkey, Rewd Adams, People’s Army Big Cakes, Remus, battle emcee Elz as well as Renee Soul and Shadia Mansour.
After months of speculating an official release date and two revised tracklistings we finally have the sophomore album from London rapper and political activist Lowkey, crafted 100% independently with no aid from a record label. The end result of the long awaited Soundtrack To The Struggle... is a 26-track LP including six album skits. Since his debut offering Dear Listener released in 2009, Lowkey’s career has incorporated politics, speaking candidly on his opinions about injustice and inequality across the Middle East and at home on various platforms, speaking against government cuts and at anti war and racism meetings and rallies. With little mainstream support of his recent material, 10 tracks already in the consciousness of Lowkey fans and followers and two controversial videos banned from TV, how will this highly anticipated album stand up?
Five years on from the release of his debut album Deh Pon Road, South London hailing emcee