Our favourite Pooh since King Tee’s DJ.

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Timbaland’s latest protege offers up a worthy leak track produced by Koolade with a classic Meters backdrop.

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K-Cloud and The Crew and MC Valentine – We’re Here To Stay
Oh, you are, are you? Perhaps your wished for longevity was somewhat scuppered by the unwieldy name you chose for your crew. K-Cloud and The Crew? Fine. K-Cloud and MC Valentine? Perfect. But K-Cloud and The Crew and MC Valentine? Fuck us, but that’s [...]

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“Wolftown Massive” by Molly Neux
The Midlands Crap Graf scene is often ignored by the scholars in the textbooks that are in frequent use at KRS One’s Temple of Hip-Hop Culture (nb – they’re looking for a new head of Sisssssssy Studies since Professor X became Professor Ex). Instead they focus on such hotbeds of speed-dobberdom [...]

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It’s no surprise that rappers ran out of new song titles a long time ago. When you’re making albums with 22 tracks, you’re going to use the stock of words up quick fast. That said, there are some song titles so unique that to copy it would be downright biting. For example, you couldn’t drop [...]

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Remember when your parents told you in 1986 that hip-hop was a fad? Well, your parents were always idiots. Everyone thinks so. How stupid? Well, you can’t do anything in life these days without hip-hop pushing its damn way in. Even a conversation with a 76-year-old librarian will probably end with her saying ‘you’re cold [...]

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We’re glad some rappers have retired. Seriously, we’re not trying to hear a MC Rell and the Houserockers comeback in 2009, no matter how underrated we feel his album is. We didn’t think we’d be welcoming back The Chubbster either, but this is actually nice – he even drops in a Milton Bradley reference  for [...]

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Since we last yelled at you about Roxanne battle records, some more have come to light. Yup, at least 23 years since anyone last cared, we’re still digging them up. Our man Werner (whose excellent blog just upped a dope interview with Cozmo D from Newcleus) is an aficionado of the Roxanne wars with a [...]

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In our second instalment of MC’s Act Like They Don’t Know, we hooked up with baggy trousered rap artist MC Hammer.

FL: Hello MC Hammer. Welcome to MC’s Act Like They Don’t Know. First up, what have you been doing since the early 90’s?
MCH: Well, after I released Too Legit To Quit I released two [...]

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