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Article Jun 13 2019

Too Deep And Just Right Enough: Musing Over Gang Starr

As a lyricist and frontman, the late Guru was always very ‘listenable’: easy on the ear in terms of delivery; sounding assured and correct at all times; a laid-back artist whose committed style perfectly dovetailed with DJ Premier‘s driven and perennially-catchy productions. From the get-go, Gang Starr had more than a certain something to elevate […]
Article Apr 24 2019

Introduction To Fixed Penalty: Teenage Griots

‘If you listen to the three EPs, you can hear the style, the lyrical agility getting better… we were still teenagers though.’ This is the tale of three young outsiders who gave it their all and earned a small niche in history alongside other similar early UK rap pioneers. Its narrator, Wayne McDonald, was one-third […]
Article Apr 8 2018

Introduction To Brothers Like Outlaw

This is the second in an occasional series that looks at UK rap, primarily, shining a light on those acts and twelves that got away… lost in the abyss that is musical history. One album and two singles, released in ’92, was all that the duo Brothers Like Outlaw wrote and then they were gone. […]
Article Feb 21 2018

Introduction To CAVEMAN

Long Island, Compton, High Wycombe in the Chiltern Hills. That last place doesn’t have quite the same resonance when it comes to backing up a rap group’s credibility, especially during the Nineties when fans in the UK struggled to appreciate the beats and rhymes of our own, but the emergence of Caveman on Profile records […]