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When I initially created this site over 7 years ago it was give another platform, no matter how small, to the part of hip-hop considered loc...

Some artists are able to transcend genres, eras or trends and survive & adapt to new challenges in music. Some artists stay in thei...

I've made a grave error by announcing this series. I understand this now. 1000 posts will take me about 20 years at my current workra...

Over the course of his (almost) 20 year career, Busta Rhymes has managed to stick close to a lot of his guns. Sure, in recent times he has b...

Recently on www.djpremierblog.com there was a poll for hip-hop fans to vote on which beat Primo had produced in 2011 that they thought was ...

The turn of the new year brings some new music from one of UK rap's true living legends. Farma G, one half of Taskforce, is set to relea...

It's the last day of the year, so what I'd like to do is take a moment on look back on what has happened in my life, and in life in ...

While trying to find photos of the new burgeoning rap collective from London, I couldn't get anything past photos of spanish horror movi...

Lewis Parker seemingly left these shores a long time ago, opting to hone his already considerable skills in the birth city of hip-hop, New Y...