New York’s Double A.B. spent some time living in north London’s Tottenham.
As the news of the much publicized London riots of August 2011 spread globally, Double A.B. wrote the track London Calling reflecting on what he could see happening in his old neighbourhood. He got together with his old associate & fellow New Yorker Dub Sonata who produced the Clash sampled beat and then approached the UK’s highly rated MC Iron Braydz to feature.
Braydz goes in hard on the track as expected with plaudits for his “Devil May Cry” album last year still reverberating around UK hiphop
Double A.B. and Dub Sonata are currently working on a new album while Iron Braydz has new projects lined up for 2012 with some heavy hittin international names on board
The video was filmed in New York by Last Call Steeve and in London by Despa of Stay Fresh in September this year, edited & produced by Dirty Media London.
The UK’s “1st Lady of Hiphop” and “One Woman Wrecking Machine”, DJ Sarah Love has a big few months ahead.
Starting on Wednesday 9th November, she supports Cypress Hill and Soul Assassins DJ Muggs as part of his Bass For Your Face European tour along with Choice FM’s DJ279, Rod Azlan and End of the Weak / Speaker’s Corner’s DJ Snuff
She is then the official UK tour dj for Aloe Blacc during December, taking in most of the country’s major cities before heading off to tour Australia in January. 2012 promises to be a big year for the ex MTV and BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter with various projects in the pipeline, and you can expect to see a lot more press coverage before the turn of the year.
Taken from Souls of Mischief’s 2010 album “Montezuma’s Revenge”, the “Mr Freeman Skit”
Tajai takes a call from actor Morgan Freeman offering fatherly advice on his hiphop career and lets him in on some details for a future acting role….lol
The album is generally available online and can be bought with a range of merchandise from http://www.hieroglyphics.com
Produced by Prince Paul, the tracklisting includes choice cuts such as Proper Aim, For Real Y’All and Postal
Look out for a possible European tour in the first half of 2012.
You can follow the guys on twitter @TajaiMassey @OpioHieroSOM @PhestoHieroSoul and @HieroAPlus
In September 2011, UK hiphop artists Mystro, Genesis Elijah and Iron Braydz were in west London filming scenes for a new video to be released for a posse cut which will also feature artists from Oakland’s legendary Hiero Imperium.
The full video will be completed in the next couple of months.
While together, UK’s online Niji Magazine caught up with them to see what was happening behind the scenes, find out what they had coming up in their own right, and also interviewed the video cameraman Despa from the Birmingham based Stay Fresh label and the video director from Dirty Media London
Follow these guys on twitter @GenesisElijah @Braydz @Mystrogen @DespaStayFresh @DirtyMediaLDN @NijiMagazine
Cypress Hill and Soul Assassins DJ Muggs brings a big night of hiphop and dubstep toLondon’s Brixton Jamm on Wednesday 9th November with a heavy dj support line up including Sarah Love, 279, Snuff, Rod Azlan, Chef, Raggs, Enme and more, hosted by Kiss FM’s MC Crazy D
Cypress Hill and Soul Assassins DJ Muggs stops off in London as part of his Bass for your Face European tour at Brixton Jamm on Wednesday 9th November 2011.
Support comes from the UK’s 1st Lady of Hiphop DJ Sarah Love, Choice FM’s legendary DJ 279, DJ Snuff (End of the Weak / People’s Army / Speaker’s Corner), Chef from Rinse FM, Rod Azlan (Choice FM), DJ Raggs and more.
It’ll be a big night of hiphop and dubstep in both rooms.
Youtube have fully reinstated our Youtube account urbanelitepr having accepted we did not breach any copywright infringement
This is a facility to assist our clients and only ever upload either videos or audio slides with their prior approval.
On our account includes videos & audio slides from Stateside and UK artists such as TQ, Souls of Mischief, Tha Vill ft Kele Le Roc, Verbal Kent, Deeprooted, Copywrite, Vast Aire, & more
Over 3 days, 14th, 15th & 16th September, we arranged 5 video shoots with UK artists linked to future releases from Stateside artists Copywrite & Double AB.
On the first day, we were with Mystro, Genesis Elijah and Iron Braydz in Ladbroke Grove to film 3 of these. Mystro appears on Copywrite’s track Pick Up Stix, also featuring Sean Price, Iron Braydz appears on a track from Double AB “London’s Calling”, and all 3 appear on a new posse cut with Copywrite. Copywrite’s album “God Save The King” is due for release in the first quarter of 2012.
A number of media also dropped by to check out what was happening, including Soulculture, The Grime Report, BSomebody TV, Niji Magazine, Code Emphasis, Lime, and The Hip Hop Chronicle. Mystro, Gen & Braydz gave an impromptu “Big Man Ting” interview for The Hip Hop Chronicle (see below)
Pics from day 1
MYSTRO – PICK UP STIX
Mystro, Genesis Elijah & Iron Braydz
The next day we were in Lewisham, South London linkin up with Dru Blu (AKA Don Strapzy) to film a sequence for the track God Save The King. Good fellas and Dru been gettin a lot of exposure recently in the specialist UK media
On the final day we were over at Hammersmith to meet up with Context MC who had already appeared on a remix for Copywrite’s labelmate Vast Aire, on the track “Cannon on Samus”. The sequence was shot for a track “Ghost in the Machine” down at the Thames. Special mention to the woman who told us she could “arrange” for a variety of birds to appear in the video & offered a feather as proof. You have a sponsorship deal with Thunderbird in the making there sweetheart…..!
The full versions of these videos are now due to be edited and the results will be seen in the near future. Mention also to John at Dirty Media and Despa at Stay Fresh on the video duties
Follow all these guys on twitter @Mystrogen @GenesisElijah @Braydz @DonDruBlu @ContextMC
@DirtyMediaLdn @DespaStayFresh
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BIG MAN TING ft Mystro, Genesis Elijah & Iron Braydz filmed by The Hip Hop Chronicle
This is the new August 2011 hiphop mix we have uploaded to 8tracks.com
It consists of various artists from the US and UK we have promoted recently and over the past couple of years. This covers Bay Area / San Diego to Chicago, Detroit, over to New York via Jamaica Queens and Brooklyn & London
We have uploaded a monthly mix since April primarily to showcase the talent that exists in these and other territories, much of it independent or underground, but always top quality.
The full tracklisting for the August mix is as follows:
Iomos Marad “Dont Play Dat”
Deeprooted “Break of Dawn”
Verbal Kent “Dinner Party” produced by iLLmind
Copywrite ft Sam Khan “Stop Remix”
Copywrite ft Jay Notes, Loudmouth Melvin,Skillit “PYT Rmx”
Vast Aire ft Kenyattah & Context MC “Cannon of Samus Rmx”
Souls of Mischief “For Real Y’All”
Vast Aire ft Guilty Simpson & Haze “The Verdict Remix”
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VAST AIRE – “THE CANNON OF SAMUS REMIX” ft Kenyattah Black and Context MC
A new August 2011 exclusive remix of Vast Aire’s “The Cannon of Samus” featuring Kenyattah Black & the UK’s Context MC. Produced by AreWhy, the original version appears on Vast’s album Ox 2010 : A Street Odyssey out on Man Bites Dog Records now. The album also includes features from Cappadonna, Raekwon, Vordul Mega & Guilty Simpson on The Verdict, a track which also recently had a recent UK remix featuring Haze from Eurogang.
In early autumn Vast will release a new EP of remixes and B-Sides “A Space Iliad”. Context MC is one of the biggest emerging talents in the UK right now, getting huge support for releases such as “Off With Their Heads” and his current release “Listening to Burial”
