UK Hip Hop

Can anyone recommend any good UK hip hop, grime etc I know of all the well known ones and stuff like foreign beggars etc. Just need to boost the size of my library a bit.

Jehst is about the only one worth it in my opinion.

-AC

Jehst about?

There aren't any I'd mention, personally.

I know there are a few artists (probably) ommited for quality, but there's always Plan B, Aftershock, Lady Sovereign/Ms. Dynamite, Dizzee Rascal, and The Streets..although I think he's a joke. Hadouken! would fit in the grime category, more so than The Klaxons. You may dig The Go! Team..they've got a old school flare about them, too.

Sway is pretty fun to listen to. Heard him in a couple of Video games. But thats the only one I know since im really into american and hispanic hip hop.

sorry lads but all of them I already have, lookin for some more underground sounds

Originally posted by The Core
I know there are a few artists (probably) ommited for quality, but there's always Plan B, Aftershock, Lady Sovereign/Ms. Dynamite, Dizzee Rascal, and The Streets..although I think he's a joke. Hadouken! would fit in the grime category, more so than The Klaxons. You may dig The Go! Team..they've got a old school flare about them, too.

I wouldn't really put Klaxons anywhere near the genre.

Since when did Dizzee Rascal and Lady Sovereign become worth mentioning?

Those two alone prove my "Anybody from England can be a success in the States." theory.

-AC

blame NME for claiming every new band is the beatles returned. dizzee>>>>lady sovereign, though.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Since when did Dizzee Rascal and Lady Sovereign become worth mentioning?

Those two alone prove my "Anybody from England can be a success in the States." theory.

-AC

Didn't you say you went to school with Dizzy? I'm pretty sure I remember reading that post in the hip-hop thread. In the same post you confused him with Dizzy Dustin from Ugly Duckling.

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Since when did Dizzee Rascal and Lady Sovereign become worth mentioning?

Those two alone prove my "Anybody from England can be a success in the States." theory.

-AC

Atleast for one song. She's just a Spice Girl about a decade too late. Touring with Gwen Stefani, making party music.

(Klaxons are garage/grime, I did say they don't belong in the genre as much as Hadouken, but their work with them still fits.)

Originally posted by The Core
Atleast for one song. She's just a Spice Girl about a decade too late. Touring with Gwen Stefani, making party music.

(Klaxons are garage/grime, I did say they don't belong in the genre as much as Hadouken, but their work with them still fits.)

Though not their own music.

Yes Doom, I went to school with Dizzee. As in, we attended the same school and acknowledged each other now and then. The degrees to which his past is fabricated in the press is quite sickening.

Originally posted by The Core
Atleast for one song. She's just a Spice Girl about a decade too late. Touring with Gwen Stefani, making party music.

(Klaxons are garage/grime, I did say they don't belong in the genre as much as Hadouken, but their work with them still fits.)

Why are you telling people who live in London what a "London" based band's music is? I know what grime and garage are, I live in the town next to where 99% of the stuff was born. Klaxons are not grime nor garage.

They call themselves a pop band, or at least that's what they want to be. They make music with clear elements of rave music, rock and pop. What they aren't is grime or garage.

-AC

I would personally classify the Klaxons as a fusion between indy and trance. What's Dizzee like then AC is he a good lad?

I was thinking of starting to rap again but there just seems too much beef in london these days. At any rate it would probably be underground like horrocore.

May I reccomend doing your own rapping, boi?

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri

Why are you telling people who live in London what a "London" based band's music is? I know what grime and garage are, I live in the town next to where 99% of the stuff was born. Klaxons are not grime nor garage.

I put it in parenthesis, for the lesser exposed, to generalize their sound. Not you. And I disagree, they're a hard band to categorize.

How can you possibly think that Klaxons are grime or garage? They're a basic indie rock band - no grime or garage connections at all.

Originally posted by pcp
May I reccomend doing your own rapping, boi?

Er, yeah....what exactly do you mean? I think I know what you mean but please clarify exactly what you mean.