Ya Heard? Hip Hop eargasms for your delectations….
Here’s some really cool music floating about, but if you relied solely on the radio you might never get a chance to hear it. This week I bring you some of the most chill tracks I’ve come across so...
View ArticleThe Monolith Blogger: November Edition
Singularly preoccupied for the past year with my own Monolith Cocktail blog, I’ve found myself once more returning to (my home-from-home) God Is In The TV. Each month I will feature an exclusive to...
View ArticleIntroducing: BMB Spacekid
Russia is known for a lot of things, but who would have thought dope music would be one of them? Producer BMB Spacekid takes us on a funkadelic voyage back to the 1980’s when West coast hip hop was...
View ArticleThe first ever Welsh BeatBox Championships slated for January 2015
Calling all Welsh MCs, rappers and hip hop heads, Cardiff promotions company Mean Business Media in association with the Moon Club, Cardiff are putting on the first ever Welsh Beatbox Championships on...
View ArticleThe Monolith Blogger: March Edition.
I wouldn’t like to presume but my monthly postings have not yet caused enough offence or bored the readers of GIITTV as I’ve been welcomed back for a fourth month. As a self-proclaimed critic picking...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Constant Deviants
A little before Puffy had his artists donning shiny suits and busting a move with their backing dancers, rapper M.I. and producer DJ Cutt – collectively known as Constant Deviants – were laying the...
View ArticleFlying Lotus – O2 Brixton Academy, 1st May 2015
Flying Lotus took a sold out Brixton Academy on an intergalactic journey through his trippy mind with the aid of a laser-light show and selected tracks from his back catalogue on Friday 1st...
View ArticleDope Show Alert: Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) plays J Dilla
Hip hop fans should prepare to have their minds blown with the announcement that Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) will take to London’s Indigo2 on 11th of June to perform tracks from the back catalogue...
View ArticleIntroducing: Clubs & Spades
It’s not often you hear the words Sheffield and hip hop in the same sentence, but that could all be set to change if Clubs & Spades have their way. Producers Andy Nicholson and Jamie Shield dish...
View ArticleInarguable Hip-Hop Classics: Public Enemy – ‘Don’t Believe The Hype’.
It’s impossible to mention music in the 80s without mentioning hip hop, and it’s impossible to mention 80s hip hop without mentioning Public Enemy. The crew burst out onto the music scene in the New...
View ArticleNEWS: Iceland Airwaves adds more acts and announces the second edition of...
Dates: 2nd – 6th November 2016 Location: Reykjavik, Iceland This year’s Iceland Airwaves already boasts an impressive line up featuring PJ Harvey, Julia Holter, Warpaint and múm playing with the Kronos...
View ArticleIN CONVERSATION: Skeet Taste
Skeet Taste, also known as Money Hungry Skeet and Hot Boy Thin-A-Thin, is a young rapper from West Belfort Street in Southwest Houston. The 25-year old’s songs are nihilistic sermons on street life...
View ArticleIN CONVERSATION: Coronavirus
Coronavirus is a rapper from LA, California, and has had a more productive pandemic than most. Using the global crisis as inspiration for three albums since New Year, he now has almost 40,000 monthly...
View ArticleIntroducing: J Chambers
Manchester’s cultural metamorphosis is represented symbolically by the worker bee; a city where ideas cross-pollinate and individual successes are often part of a bigger hive mentality. To an outsider...
View ArticleClipping. – Visions of Bodies Being Burned (Sub Pop)
Clipping. delivered one of my very favourite albums of 2019, There Existed an Addiction to Blood. Daveed Diggs’ nihilist lyricism and intense delivery complimented the uneasy vibe created by horrific...
View ArticleLand Of Rap – March 2021
Whilst at university, one of my highest grades was for a project on Welsh identity within Hip-hop. I wish I still had my notes as it’s something I’ve been reflecting on a fair bit this week. What is it...
View ArticleNEWS: Yaya Bey announces new album ‘Remember Your North Star’, Out 17 June...
Yaya Bey continues to be a creative force with her album Remember Your North Star out 17th June 2022 on Big Dada Records. British-based label Big Dada is of course home to some legendary records in the...
View ArticleNEWS: New international event dedicated to Scotland’s hip hop and underground...
Pitch, Scotland’s conference of hip hop and underground culture will takes place on 27th August 2022 in Glasgow. Three venues in the heart of Glasgow’s creative East End will host the event. Following...
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