Leeds Hip Hop Scene

We’re all about the free goodies this week!

kidkanevil’s brand spanking new album ‘Back off man, I’m a Scientist’ is out October 20th in all the usual places if you’re an eager beaver and want to get a taster of his new work then go and have a listen at www.myspace.com/kidkanevil

Teef has been kind to all his fans yet again by upping some new free goodies for you to enjoy!

5 Brand New TEEF and TOES Songs
2 TEEF Desktop wallpapers
1 Song Lyrics
1 Acapella (get your remix on)

Get yours now

Pick up a Design Template in store at Footasylum or apply online at www.dontpaniconline.com/designbrief/client/newera where we have a live interactive voting gallery. Entries open worldwide until 15 Nov.

I caught Sway performing at the Mint Club, Leeds. After sitting through a couple of hours of mindless R’n'B ‘hits’ (seriously, I can’t even recognise music in that genre as R’n'B now) I managed to get crushed up against the front barrier by a load of screaming girls when Sway hit the stage at around half past midnight.

Sway performed ‘This is my Demo’ the lead track from his first LP of the same name. He dropped the news that he is now signed officially to Akon’s Kon Live label in the US and performed, for the first time, the first verse and chorus of a new track recorded with Akon. The crowd, who are evidently Sway’s target audience for collaborations such as this, went generally wild over the whole Akon/Konvict news. I didn’t like the track but it’ll probably smash in both countries if the adoring female fans are anything to go by.

Sway also performed a new track called ‘Taxi’ which sounded a little more promising but the best track performed from the new LP was ‘Say It Twice’ an entertaining concept that Sway pulls off with much aplomb.

Sway and Junior Dcypha also passed out a few physical copies of his new mixtape ‘The Signature Mixtape’ meant as a promotional tool for the forthcoming ‘The Signature LP’, now to be released on October 6th. You can get a download of this mix by going to http://www.sway.uk.com/ and filling in your details.

So here you have it people, we’ve tried our damned hardest to bring Hip-Hop Connection and their 20th Anniversary celebrations to Leeds but, for a number of reasons that include a lack of communication, a lack of organisation and a lack of understanding from people who are in the game for only one thing, money. Being the kind of respectful trio we are and to appease others, we moved the date twice but it came to light that even this wasn’t enough. So, as a final gentlemanly gesture we changed the date a third and last time (which again wasn’t good enough).

We then received emails with threats of ‘if I have to, I’ll tell this artist and that artist not to play’, below the belt childish bully tactics that did nothing but make us hungrier. So we started on a long journey down the winding road called hip-hop politics. Where the days of getting everyone together for a good old beat infused celebration seems to have been replaced with money hungry, self obsessed, child like people who enjoy talking out of their rear end. Continue reading ‘HHC LEEDS EVENT CANCELLED!! We tried, they failed!’