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Nottingham based C-Mone releases her fourth album ‘Herstory The Autobiography‘ on independent imprint Dark Whisper Records, a wonderfully minimalistic offering that leans heavily on the lyrical merit of the self proclaimed ‘undisputed Queen of UK Hip Hop’. The beats, in many cases are stripped completely back to allow the words to breathe and sit with the listener for contemplation. This is clearly a very personal piece, described as an “an epic journey throughout my life, on tracks”, with tributes to […]

Cardiff based duo Blue City CDF (Jay Rede and Formal Brown) have teamed up with producer Risk1, for their fourth album “Anamnesis” (an interesting title referring to a ‘recollection of a previous existence’), out now on Bard Picasso records. Risk1 handles all beatwork and cuts on the new 17 track release, which initially appears to be a standard boom bap offering but on further inspection is quite a personal piece of music, delving into love, life and loss, making references […]

We’re not sure if it’s in spite of or because of soaring temperatures, lingering global catastrophe and political instability, but the UK is experiencing one of the strongest festival seasons in recent memory. Returning to the ‘hidden valleys’ of Herefordshire, Nozstock (ticket link) has long been friendly to the hip hop scene and this year hosts it’s biggest roster yet. This provides the perfect opportunity to give a UK hip hop head’s guide to the festival (also we have our […]

It’s hard to always know where things end and things begin. The Crown, an album from End of the Weak founder Jason “Vice Verses “Williams, is being released this year, almost two years after his passing.  The Crown encapsulates Vice’s trademarks: lyrical, dark, haunting, melancholy, light-hearted, clever, and honest. It is all of those things, and more. The album personifies the unique way Vice connected with family, friends, fellow artists, kids … with people. While Vice conceptualized the songs, he […]

Bristol heads get yourselves down to Lakota this Saturday 16.07 for an all day Hip Hop extravaganza. A whole heap of talent performing on the day, headed up by King Kashmere (Strange U, Gawd Status) Split Prophets, Wish Master & more, check the full line up below Tickets available below:

I recently spent a day with the CMPND boys and haven’t been the same since. With their second LP ‘Long Live the Court’ dropping today, we thought it would be a good time to give a peek into the lives behind the legendary rap gonzos… 8:43PM – CMPND are sound checking ahead of their headline performance at a Brighton nightclub. Wundrop’s mic isn’t working. “Have you tried turning it on?” asks the bar manager-slash-sound engineer. Wundrop spews back “This ain’t […]

The Great Escape is a weird one. On one hand it brings hundreds of incredible acts right to my doorstep, but on the other it attracts hordes of identical looking music A&R types, thoughtfully stroking their beards while a talented 20-something old performs their heart out just metres away. There were some cases where this audience mismatch was painfully obvious (watching a young child sit cross-legged whilst New Wave icon Namani repeats “Fuck you, pay me” at the Platform B […]

As the first thing resembling an unrestricted summer since 2019 is about to appear (stops writing touches wood, crosses fingers and prays to all the deities)… Team UKHH is finally going to get stuck into some more festival silliness. More to be revealed on that as the theoretical probably-summer maybe unfolds. First up though… Balter Festival 2022. Now in its 8th Year, the small but mighty Balter has built a reputation for going particularly hard. Its status as a Mecca […]

Nottingham born, London based Shortee Blitz is set to release his highly anticipated (and long overdue) self produced four track debut EP ‘…1st Step‘, this May on Sydney based record label Low Key Source. Over the years Shortee has been described as ‘the UK’s number one Hip Hop and club DJ’ and has been part of the landscape for over 27 years. He started life as a mix DJ for legendary radio duo Max & Dave on Kiss FM (the […]