gimmie your best/worst: UK hip hop/rap

[DannyL]

They were the most raw of all that lot I think. Some funny shit in their videos like them nicking car stereos.

 

[DannyL]

Me and Luka have slagged off Hi Focus on here a bunch of times if you want really terrible examples - I tend to blank on the names though, as is normal with trauma. Oceans Wisdom is the one I recall off the top of my head. He has actually got skills as well.

 

[...]

Show your friends this classic interview to explain UK rap dynamics

What's going on here, where they on holiday together or something?

 

[william_kent]

How about the UK answer to Public Enemy?



Hardnoise - Serve Tea, Then Murder

 

[Corpsey]

What's going on here, where they on holiday together or something?

Westwood looks like he's about to puke.

 

[...]

He says it's 7am and I can't work out if they've got up bright and early or it's still last night for them.

 

[...]

It's a good video though because you can really focus on the weirdness of Westwood's voice.

 

[wg-]

 

[tomfun]

Hardnoise - Untitled


Hijack - Doomsday Of Rap


Silver Bullet - Bring Forth The Guillotine

 

[tomfun]

S.L. Troopers - Systematic Terror


Demon Boyz - Junglist


Blade - Mind Of An Ordinary Citizen

 

[tomfun]

B.O.O.M. - Boom


Cash Crew - Ghetto Circumstances


Caveman - Fry You Like A Fish (Though tbh "I'm Ready" is their classic)

 

[DannyL]

Straining my brain from some obscure ones:



I had this on 12"



This seemed really radical at the time - I think 'cos he took the PE lead and talked about Africa and slavery - but sounds very generic now

 

[tomfun]

Some from my neck of the woods (Scotland)

Dope Inc. - The Frontal Attack (Aberdeen 1991)


Sugar Bullet - Demonstrate In Mass (Welcome To The Terrordrome Mix) (Edinburgh 1990)


II Tone Committee - Hangman (Glasgow 1991)

 

[DannyL]

Sure you know London posse but this early effort seems to catch something v London, reggae colliding with beatbox

 

[mixed_biscuits]

 

[tomfun]

MC Mell'O' - Open Up Your Mind


Cash Crew - One Decade


DJ Mink ft 2wice The Trouble - Hey, Hey, Can U Relate

 

[DannyL]

Shit MC Mello! I haven't thought about him since like 1991

Best London Posse

 

[tomfun]

Gunshot - Battle Creek Brawl


Def Tex - Addiction To Rhyme


She Rockers - On Stage (Betty Boo's old crew)

 

[tomfun]

Cookie Crew - Born This Way


A lot of the britcore era of uk rap suffers from them putting on american accents imho

 

[DannyL]

Yeah that's cos it was always a bit of a cargo cult. Fantasy role play a lot of it.