If you asked most people, they’d probably turn down the opportunity to have a raw sewage pipe running directly into their living room, tipping raw faeces on their head as they try and concentrate on The Football League Show. Despite this, Kanye West already has 760,000 followers on Twitter, making him nearly 40% as popular [...]

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One of our most anticipated albums of 2010 has to be from Jay Elec. Check out this show, courstesy of Red Bull Music Academy, curators of some of the best on-line radio of late.

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You might have thought that just because we haven’t droned on about Roxanne records for the last 13 months, we’ve run out of them. BOOOOOYAAAAA! We’re not you, rapper.
Yes, we’ve still been digging, if by digging you mean ‘typing into search fields’. There are more over the coming months, but first let’s deal with this [...]

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It’s been a couple of years since we last tended to our Crack Rap garden, and in that time it has been overrun by records from before virtually every rapper fessed up to being a dealer of the white. In fact, it’s heartbreaking to hear the angry optimism on these records before crack use settled [...]

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The way many rappers go on – and yes we’re talking about Capone N Noreaga here – you’d think that they were all pro-rape. Well, not so, as this Irish curio proves. In fact, the lead MC here (played by the Hofmeister bear) led a campaign so effective that there hasn’t been any rapes in [...]

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That’s right, Finesse just copped the brand new ZX81 so has no need for this old school technology. However it looks pretty clean to us. He’s probably bought a bulk load from Emu, signing them and selling them off at a profit. Cop here at eBay, or buy Ableton, it’s much easier to use. But [...]

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Some records were just made to be pillaged to death, and ‘Synthetic Substitution’ is one of those. It’s the foundation and cornerstone that countless classics were built on. Enjoy the stunning original, enjoy the stunning songs that used it, and pour out a little liquor for Melvin Bliss, who just passed.

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Straight flames from our man Maze, Lord Tariq still doing it rugged. Available digitally on Amazon and iTunes, but we’re hoping dude presses up some vinyl as well.

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Sasha’s a Bad girl and likes to Get Down and she’s Dangerous and she Can Give you More and she Wants You and she’ll Rock Your Bells and she Needs Love in her Big Ole Butt. [takes breath] She’ll also guarantee 6 Minutes of Pleasure and as for her knickers, she’s Droppin’ Em ready for [...]

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Of all the great things the Afrocentric era in rap taught us – namely that it sounds great when rappers talk bollocks, how much rappers will believe any old bollocks about black scientists creating the white race in a lab several thousand years ago, how ruinously expensive it is to try and get an X-Clan [...]

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