PRINCE FEAT Q-TIP BOX OF CHOCOLATES

EXCLUSIVE-DIZZEE RASCAL SPECIAL GUEST TONIGHT WITH DJ MK AND SHORTEE BLITZ KISS100

DIZZEE BREAKS DOWN HIS NEW ALBUM TONIGHT ON KISS...EXCLUSIVE NOT TO BE MISSED

MOS DEF IS A DOOM STAN, I MEAN FAN.

GO COP THAT NEW DOOM ISHHHH

LONDON GRAFFITI- the 80'S EDITION

I really got into Hip Hop through graffiti.In 86 i started school and would have to take the Big Met from Wembley Park to Bush in West London. I was amazed at all the tags i used to see SET3, KIS42, SIR BEAU, CAST, INK, ROBBO, YESE ETC, i used to wonder,who are these kids? A month later i saw Style wars and then the book Subway art and all was explained. By the end of 86 i would always carry a pen with me,met other writers and started to get up.

A year later i was hanging round Kilburn Park hard and was in a crew called LA (LOOKING AHEAD) Along with DAME,REMIX,ARTIST,FAIR,AND EVIL 87. Evil wasnt evil at all, he was chubby kid who was a year younger then me, and was the best racker i'd ever met. When we went to get cans or pens he would always get the most. I remember being with him outside Kilburn park tube station and we arranged to meet up the next day. The next day when i got into school a writer called Drone from Edgware rd told me he was dead... When we used to hit up Kilburn Park, we d cross the live rail, and then hide in a little Workman's hole, then your mates would get on the tube, and hold the doors so the train couldnt leave the station...this gave you about 3 minutes to do a few dubs and get up before the train driver came out of his carriage...Evil was doin this but when the train pulled away he got dragged under......EVIL 87 RIP




After Evils death we all gave up Graff for about 2 months....Then it was back to business. More and more pieces were running daily, and writers were hitting train yards more then hitting walls.. By 88 writers like KAST,MIZE,STEAM, RATE&EVENT, FOAM,CAZBEE,SHOK ETC were painting the sickest pieces, and London had never and would never see this amount of art running on its tube network. Below is some of the pix i took from back then, we all used to share are photos so i think some of them were CASTS.

The sickest graff website you NEED to check is WWW.ROCKINGTHECITY.COM. They have photos of literally every single piece ive seen running on the tubes and you need to check it..

Graffiti is the one part of Hip Hop culture that always gets over looked,as the bigger corporations cant really exploit it as they can do with MCing...I gave up Graff in 1990 after being caught and sent to Feltham. I thought maybe i should stick to djing, which i did.













In the 90's a new generation of writers came through, and they were more hardcore than ever. By this time cameras were on more or less every platform and in most if not all yards. It was getting harder to paint but that didnt stop writers like FUME,TEACH,ELK,SUB,DIET,FIASCO, as well as the 80's writers who were still doing there thing (PRIME, SHUTO,RATE)

In the present day, trains get hit but most dont run. Shout out to TOX who has been doing his thing. Check out this mini documentary on him which was on SKY.

VIDEO-DJ PREMIER INTERVIEW WITH DJ MK & SHORTEE BLITZ

Premier & Blaq Poet were our special guests on last Sundays radio show. This was a DJ PREMIER 2 hour special!! Premo breaks down alot of things here, essential viewing. Part 2 tomorrow if your good...

*Premier talks about working with Nas on Illmatic

*How he had to stop the tape whilst recording Kick in the door with BIG when he heard him calling out Jeru, Afu Ra and Nas.

*Getting his Famous MPV stolen on Rikers Island

SHOUT OUT 2 R DUDE MAGDI




DOWNLOAD DJ PREMIER-BLAQ POET INTERVIEW HOUR 1
DOWNLOAD DJ PREMIER -BLAQ POET INTERVIEW HOUR 2
INTERVIEW WITH NO MUSIC

wefightwelove remix featuring kanye west & consequence

EXCLUSIVE DIZZEE RASCAL INTERVIEW THIS SUNDAY WITH DJ MK & SHORTEE BLITZ

Last week i caught up with my homeboy Dizzee Rascal for a exclusive interview where he's breaking down his new album, who's on it, who's not on, the different producers he's working with, and the direction of the new music. The title of the new album is called "Tongue-in-cheek" and as Diz says "It does what it says on the tin...naughty but nice"

Also Diz KILLED IT with the bars. Seriously he smashed it..... One the beats i gave him was "Rotate" and he destroyed it with probably the BEST freestyle I've heard this year. Even my producer kept going on about how good it was. Hear for yourself this Sunday night Kiss100

Video: Raekwon ft. Method Man & Ghostface - Wu-Ohh (Behind The Scenes)

I WANNA SEE THE FINAL VERSION OF THIS...

DJ PREMIER - BLAQ POET LIVE WITH DJ MK AND SHORTEE BLITZ

Here's some footage of Premier and Blaq Poet in the UK. It shows Poet and Preem up on our show on KISS as well as them tearing down Fabric. The footage of the radio is being edited now and will be up later tonight. Until then, enjoy this...Shout out to biggest Gord, Premier, Poet and Magdi

DJ PREMIER 2 HOUR SPECIAL ALONGSIDE BLAQ POET-TOMORROW NIGHT MK & SHORTEE BLITZ ON KISS100 9-11

TONIGHT IS THE DJ PREMIER 2 HOUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW.

IF YOUR A FAN OF HIP HOP THIS IS ESSENTIAL LISTENING

PREMIER GOES IN DEEP AND TALKS ABOUT EVERYTHING...

* WORKING WITH BIG L AND HOW RON BROWZ PRODUCED EBONICS

* HIS TOP 5 MC'S

* ALL OF HIS MUSICAL INFLUENCES

* WORKING WITH BIGGIE AND HOW HE STOPPED THE TAPE WHILST RECORDING "KICK IN THE DOOR" WHEN HE HEARD BIGGIE CALLING OUT JERU, AFU RA, AND NAS

* HOW HE DOES NT LISTEN TO HIS OWN PRODUCTION

* WILL THERE BE A NAS-PREMO ALBUM??

* HOW HE MAKES BEATS

* WORKING WITH JAY Z

*AND MUCH MUCH MORE.....MAKE SURE YOU LISTEN...WWW.TOTALKISS.COM-CLICK ON LISTEN LIVE

NEWHAM GENERALS FREESTYLE WITH DJMK

8 MINUTE SICK FREESTYLE WITH THE GENERALS....KILLING IT!!

HHC R.I.P

So after 21 years Hip Hop Connection is no more. Lets be honest, it had its good/bad points but for anyone (Andy Cowan) to run a Hip Hop magazine for 21 years deserves props. HHC was 1st a phone service where you'd pay £1.50 a minute to hear all the latest Hip Hop news. A few months later in Aug 1988 the 1st edition hit the streets. Oh yeah and this is before the Source...You gonna miss it??????

In 1988 Hip-Hop Connection (HHC) magazine published its first issue. 21 years later, the world’s longest running rap monthly recently published its last.

It’s a cracker too, answering the question heads over the globe just can’t resist arguing over: Who is the great rapper of all time? And we didn’t just send our top critics down the pub to argue the toss. Rather, we polled over 100 emcees from all walks of life and all levels of superstardom to find the answer.

While there is an inevitable air of sadness that a combination of increased paper and production costs allied to viciously plummeting ad revenues have made continuing unworkable, HHC and its staff are happy the magazine is hanging up its metaphorical boots while in rude creative health.

Independently published by Infamous Ink since 2001, it’s charted hip-hop’s myriad highs and lows in candid and amusing fashion; never cowed by the preening demands of rap’s A-list stars or scared to take them down a peg or too, while also championing the UK’s homegrown hopefuls and the freshest underground US talent. Along the way HHC has posted upfront cover debuts for the likes of The Fugees, Wu-Tang Clan, Outkast, Eminem, Danger Mouse, 50 Cent and The Game – long before they were anything close to being on the mainstream’s radar.

And while HHC will no longer be the true rap fanatic’s monthly paper fix, it will still live on in other forms: from April 7 it will become the world’s first dedicated digital hip-hop magazine, available for download from www.hhcdigital.net

All of HHC’s staff and contributors will continue to be active journalistically, so please retain on any relevant mailing lists.

Thank you for your support, in whatever capacity, over the years.

All the best,

Andy Cowan (Hip Hop Connection)

WESTWOOD INTERVIEWS Q-TIP

WICKED INTERVIEW WITH TIP....DOWNLOAD

DJ MK AND A-CYDE MARCH GULLYVER FLYER

MARCH IS GONNA BE YET ANOTHER ROAD BLOCK.BE THERE!!

CHIPMONK FREESTYLE WITH DJ MK AND SHORTEE BLITZ

Chipmonk has got bars for days...

One of the best new talents in the UK??

CONSEQUENCE & KID CUDI - BUGGING OUT 2009

Directed by Rik Cordero, I ve been playing this up at on the radio HARD, for the last couple of months. Taken from the amazing J.Period mix cd. The 2009 version of the classic Tribe" Buggin Out"

SHORTEE BLITZ- A-LIST RADIO

ESSENTIAL LISTENING...EXTENDED PLAYERS STYLE..

Last Fridays Blitz Power Mix.
The times are now 16:00-18:00 EST
Which is 20:00-22:00 GMT

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PHAT FRIDAY'S EVIL DEE - HOT 97 1994

Found HERE. Shout out to Paul.

This tape (only 40 mins long unfortunately) is one of my favourites for the following reasons:
- E Rule's 'Listen Up'.
- Evil Dee cutting up Zhane & Blackgirl acapellas over Gang Starr and Wu Tang beats and scratching his name check on 'Crooklyn'.
- Its got the world premier of Black Moon's 'Murder MCs', straight off the DAT from D&D studios.
- Buckshot drops a freestyle over the 'Kaught In Da Ak' instrumental.
- The phoned-in shout-outs give it an authentic mid-90s NYC feel and I like that sort of thing.
Considering this is from 1994 (one of the best years ever for quality Hip Hop) its strange that Buckshot mentions "taking Hip Hop back". He obviously had no idea what the future held and that any DJ playing a Bootcamp Click b-side on daytime Hot 97 in 2009 would be fired.

DOWNLOAD HERE

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT......

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT- THIS SUNDAY ALONGSIDE MK & SHORTEE BLITZ, SPECIAL GUEST FOR THE WHOLE SHOW, DJ PREMIER ALONGSIDE BLAQ POET!!!. IF YOU GOT ANY QUESTIONS FOR PREEM HIT ME UP...

Capone-N-Noreaga - Talk To Me (Big Tyme)

New CNN video for Talk to me. Look out for the new CNN album out any day now. Cnn just finished a huge European tour. No shows in the UK??? Whats that all about???


Capone-N-Noreaga - "Talk To Me (Big Tyme)" from Three/21 Films on Vimeo.

PUBLIC ENEMY AND THE ROOTS ON JIMMY FALLON

Jimmy twittered this yesterday...(Hmmm is twittered even a proper word ???)

NEW JAZZY JEFF FREE DOWNLOAD MIX "MY FAVES" VOLUME ONE

Found by the power of Twitter...Dope mix..Enjoy.

JAZZY JEFF - MY FAVES - VOLUME ONE

Biggie - Gimme the Doe
Wu Tang - Loot
Jay - Z - Moment of Clearness
Nas - Uno Amore
Pharcyde - Passin by Me
Biggie - Hip No Ties
Jay - Z - Allow me Too…
Nas - It Ain’t Hard
Juice Crew - Da Orchestra
Jay - Z - Dirty Shoulders
Biggie - Kick the Door In
Audio Two - Bill the Top
Nas - Made u Peek
Black Moon - Dollatown
Jay - Z - Hustle Knockin

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BIG DADDY KANE DOCUMENTARY

Here's the full 16 minute documentary on the legend that is Big Daddy Kane. Kane is such a legend in my eyes. This film is short but sweet. Watch out for the Big Daddy Kane show at the Jazz Cafe in London in the forthcoming weeks.

CLICK THIS LINK THEN GO TO SCION EASY 10 TO WATCH

NEWHAM GENERALS - LIVE WITH DJMK AND SHORTEE BLITZ TOMORROW NIGHT ON KISS100 9-11

Generals live on the show tomorrow night. Gonna be SICK...LOck IN!!!!!!!

DJ YODA - FLIGHT SCHOOL- FREE DOWNLOAD

NEW FREE DOWNLOAD MIX CD FROM MY HOMEBOY DJ YODA ALONGSIDE MR TOBES..DOWNLOAD THE DOPENESS HERE..

DJ MK-DIZZEE RASCAL

So today i hooked up with my bredrin Dizzee Rascal at Kiss. He was armed with some gold discs and one of them was for me!! After Diz laced me with the gold, we went into the studio and laid down some SICK freestyles. Seriously, i put on the "Rotate" ins and he destroyed it. One of the best freestyles Ive heard all year real talk. Diz also broke down his new album, whose on it, what vibe it's on, and why its gonna sell more than the last album. Gonna air the interview and spitting session next week. Dont miss it.

DE LA SOULS DUG OUT

Ok here's the deal... I get a phone call at Midnight from Shortee Blitz telling me i HAVE TO CHECK THIS WEBSITE....Basically its some of the sickest thing Ive seen. YouTube is kinda dead now google (who owns YouTube) has taken all the videos off. Anyway, this website is live streaming from what i think is Maceo from De La Souls basement. When i logged on i witnessed DJ Scratch cutting up live for about 30 minutes ....HE MURDERED IT....KILLED IT....DESTROYED IT....Seriously it was amazing....Then after that Maceo came on and djed for 2 hours,just playing every thing from bangers to rare funk to 80's grooves. The good thing is that theres a chat room as well, so you can chat ish and chat to Maceo....Anyway 4 hours later me and half of London was locked in. Then Bumpy Knuckles comes on and killed it, cracking pure jokes...It was mad,talking to Freddie Fox and Shortee blitz, and Harry love at the same time whilst hearing some sick tunes..You have to sign up but its free. Normally i wouldn't post this kinda thing, but its worth checking out...Shout out shortee for the hook up!!

PEEP HERE

NEW ASHER ROTH ALBUM COVER

DJ MK BREAK 2 THE BEAT MIX- RECORDED LIVE LAST NIGHT-KISS100

Last night was yet another SMASH show with my brother from another mother Shortee blitz. Exclusives got cut the f.. up, Chipmonk one the brightest new talents in the UK music scene passed thru, and blessed the mic with a Sick freestyle. For the last 20 minutes of the show i did a little breaks mix...Break to the beat style...Came out good..Real good... DOWNLOAD AND ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DJ MK - BREAK 2 THE BEAT MIX

Santogold - Shove It - Virgin
Jay Z - Brooklyn Go Hard - Bad Boy
The Clash - Straight To Hell - Cbs
M.I.A Ft Jim Jones - Paper Planes Remix - Iga
The Pharcyde - Passing Me By - Delicious Vinyl
Roy Ayers - The Third Eye - Ubiquity
The Pharcyde - A1 Passing Me By - Delicious Vinyl
Audio 2 - Top Billin - First Priority Music
50 Cent - I Get Money - Shady/Aftermath
Cerone - Rocket In The Pocket - Cbs
Mc Lyte - Cha Cha Cha - First Priority Music
Toto - Georgy Porgy - Columbia
Mc Lyte - Poor Georgie - First Priority Music
Mc Lyte - 10% Dis - First Priority Music
Asher Roth - I Love College - Src
Debarge - Stay With Me - Gordy
Biggie - One More Chance Remix - Bad Boy
Donald Byrd - Think Twice - Bluenote
Main Source - Looking At The Front Door - Wild Pitch
Labi Siffre - My Song - Emi
Kanye West - I Wonder - Roc A Fella
Cameo - Hangin Downtown - Club
Group Home - Supa Star - Payday
Young Holt Trio - Strangers In The Night - Edsel Records
Crooklyn Dodgers - Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers - Mca
Al Green - The Letter - Motown
Capone N Noreaga - La La - Penalty
Public Enemy - Shut Em Down - Def Jam
Notorious B.I.G - Ten Crack Commandments - Bad Boy
Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce - Cbs
Notorious B.I.G - Going Back To Cali - Bad Boy

BIGGIE SMALLS WAS THE ILLEST

Classic Biggie, alongside Snoop, Tupac, Warren G. Damn...imagine if you were at that show...

JAM MASTER JAY LIVE IN THE MIX WITH WESTWOOD 1998

Lets take it back...Classic material.. Jam Master Jay on Westwood from around 1998. I remember RUN DMC were in town when the Jason Niven's rmx was doing its thing in the charts. I remember my homeboy Mr Lawson was working at Profile Records at this time and was looking after them. I remember he got me the sickest drops but who knows where they are now...Taken from my homeboy DJ STEP ONES NEW BLOG

PART 1 DOWNLOAD

PART 2 DOWNLOAD

NEW GHOSTFACE "MESSAGE FROM GHOSTFACE"

TAKE SOME ADVICE FROM UNCLE TONY HERE

"PULL UP" THIS FRIDAY @ THE COBDEN CLUB - DJ MK - HARRY LOVE- AFRIKAN BOY - DE TROPIX

BIG PARTY THIS FRIDAY...BE THERE.

JACO COMES TO LONDON

The 1st piece of Vinyl i ever bought was a Michael Jackson record. I grew up on this dudes music...He is one of the greatest performers/singers of our time........The question is, in 2009, do i really care?????

Prince did a load of dates at the O2 same way Michael is, and Prince killed it!!! The shows were amazing, and the night i went to see him he was on stage for over 3 hours, doing ALL his hits. Somehow i feel that this is gonna turn into more of a freak show, then a good show???

Whose goin????

B - REAL MEETS PIMPING CURLY

I LIKE THE NEW 50 WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR

DIZZEE RASCAL & THE NEWHAM GENERALS LIVE WITH WESTWOOD

Damn they killed it!!!!

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE NEW RAEKWON "WU OOH" VIDEO SHOOT

BEEN PLAYING THIS UP ON MY RADIO SHOW..BIG TUNE...RAE IS A DON.

ASHER ROTH OVER THE JUDGEMENT DAY RIDDIM (PRODUCED BY ROOTS MANUVA)

Asher Roth was up on the radio show last Sunday on Kiss100. He killed it on the freestyle...This is him spitting over the Judgement day riddim produced by Roots Manuva. The original version of this is, by Kyza and is only so far available on my new mix cd which you can get HERE

REVEAL FREESTYLE WITH DJ MK AND SHORTEE BLITZ - KISS100 EVERY SUN NITE 9-11

REVEAL, JARGON, AND ASHER ROTH ALL PAST BY THE SHOW ON SUNDAY. REVEAL KILLED IT..CHECK HIM OUT GOIN IN OVER RAEKWONS BAGGAGE HANDLERS...

KID CUDI PERFORMS SOME NEW HEAT "SKY MIGHT FALL " (PRODUCED BY KANYE WEST)

NEW HEAT FROM CUDI "SKY MIGHT FALL"

MK- SHORTEE BLITZ - ASHER ROTH -2 NITE- KISS100 9-11PM

Tonight on Kiss, myself and Mr Blitz have the good homey Asher Roth Passing through. The freestyle is gonna be legendary!! 9-11pm, Kiss100, www.totalkiss.com..listen live!!!