You might already know Bristol based rapper El Bizzy (formerly Stil Bizzy) from his work with The Aristocrats, or if you’re lucky enough to have been in attendance at any of our ‘The Reload Presents’ nights you’ll have witnessed his mic skills live in the flesh. If not, however, then his most recent EP Worcester… Continue reading EP Review: El Bizzy – Worcester Sauce
Category: UK Hip Hop
EP Review: Mr Key and Greenwood Sharps – ‘Green & Gold’
'Green & Gold' artwork - by Jamie Johnson. Green and Gold is the new project from Mr Key and Greenwood Sharps, the synaesthetic producer who composed the album in its eponymous colours. For those not familiar, synaesthesia is a condition that causes one stimulus to trigger two senses, in Sharps’s case this means that he… Continue reading EP Review: Mr Key and Greenwood Sharps – ‘Green & Gold’
Album Review: CMPND – Eagle Court
If you haven’t yet heard of CMPND, you’re about to; as this Friday marks the release of their impressive debut album Eagle Court, on the High Focus imprint. The trio, made up of Kemastry, Vitamin G and Wundrop – who also produced the album in its entirety – honed their skills with Brighton's Yogocop collective,… Continue reading Album Review: CMPND – Eagle Court
New Artist: Youssy
Up and coming London rapper and producer Youssy first came onto our radar when he released his first single Tide last year. His gentle tone and on point lyricism rested on a muffled grand piano loop effortlessly whilst a tenor sax cut through the sample to give the track an old school Miles Davis Blue… Continue reading New Artist: Youssy
Album Review: Dirty Dike – Acrylic Snail
Acrylic snail, Dirty Dike’s first full length offering since 2015’s ‘Sucking on Prawns in the Moonlight’, offers exactly what we’ve come to expect from the High Focus rapper, a brash, brazen barrage of lyrical debauchery seesawing between giddy, narcissistic highs and self-deprecating lows. Ever the enigmatic lyricist the one thing you can be certain that… Continue reading Album Review: Dirty Dike – Acrylic Snail