The Hip Hop Chronicle UK

The Hip Hop Chronicle were in attendance at the 6th Annual Urban Music Awards at the Indigo2 Arena in London.
The Awards helps to showcase both underground and ‘overground’ talent in UK Urban Music.

Artists like Bashy, Tinchy Stryder, Ms Dynamite, Dwain Chambers, Richard Blackwood, actors from the soap Hollyoaks and many more stars of the UK [...]

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The time now is 1.35am, hours before in a lush bar in the O2 Dome, special guests and the press were invited to listen to Kanye West’s new album 808’s & Hearbreak’. The Hip Hop Chronicle were in attendance.
Set for release on November 24rd, the album has already raised eyebrowns over what kind of sound [...]

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The Hip Hop Chronicle had the pleasure of speaking to New York MC and CEO of Blacksmith Music, Talib Kweli.

Talib who rose to fame with Mos Def making up the legendary Black Star. Tracks like ‘Definition’ & ‘Respiration’ helped Talib gain repsect as being one of Hip Hop’s true MC’s. He’s worked with the likes of Kanye [...]

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Def Jam set up a conference call with Nasir Jones aka Nas. This is the 2nd time I’ve spoken to Nas |
If you remember I spoke to Nas a few months back when his ‘Untitled’ album was dropping.
(CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO 1ST TIME) 

Nas who has been on the Rock The Bells tour & The [...]

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WearYourCity.com is a site that was created for one reason; to allow people from all over the world to wear their cities, towns, and neighborhoods and represent them to the fullest. 
Created by two people who had one aim, to allow people to put on for their city.
The Hip Hop Chronicle caught up exclusively with one [...]

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The Hip Hop Chronicle was invited to a special B.O.B.O./Def Jam Conference call with Grammy winner and Hip Hop superstar Ludacris.
With over 250 outlets on the line, The Hip Hop Chronicle was the only international outlet to speak with the rapper. This was also the case with the Nas Conference Call
 
Luda who currently is putting the finishing [...]

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The Hip Hop Chronicle spoke to Shawty Lo a few hours ago. Shawty who recently won the Breakthrough Artist at this year’s O Zone Awards has been on fire in the last year.
 
Tracks like Dey Know and Foolish have been huge successes and the D4L Records CEO is getting the accolades that he deserves.
Recently his on-going [...]

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2008 has been a great year for the ‘Evil Genius’, otherwise known as DJ Green Lantern.

This year he has made history by producing the GTA 4 Soundtrack, he’s toured with Jay-Z and is currently on the road with Nas, released an album with Immortal Technique. He also presents a very successful show on Sirus Satellite.
Green now has [...]

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JD Era is a Canadian artist who recently won Best Rapper at the Toronto Indie Music Awards.
His infectious smash single ‘Paper Chase’ has taken Toronto and Canada by storm.
He now plans to over the States.

In his first ever U.K. interview, I had a chance to speak to JD Era about his mixtape ‘Coming To America’, his [...]

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This September, Def Comedy Jam will be coming to the U.K. for the very first time. 

The extremely successful comedy show premiered on HBO in 1991. It was a phenomenon that changed the face of American comedy.
Produced by partners Russell Simmons and Stan Lathan, the Jam’s helped launch the careers of Dave Chappelle, Chris Tucker, the late [...]

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The Hip Hop Chronicle had the pleasure of speaking with legendary MC Freddie Foxx A.K.A. Bumpy Knuckles.

Bumpy is releasing ‘Crazy Like A Foxx’, an album that was recorded in 1994. While bootlegs of this album have been circulating for years but now Bumpy has decided to remaster the album for the fans.

The album boasts guest [...]

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Hailing from the birthplace of rap (The Bronx), Mickey Factz is making his mark in Hip Hop. Each week he has blessed us with his extemely successful music series ’ The Leak’.

As a youngster, Mickey was exposed to music, when his father would rap to him. But it was until the age of 8 that his love affair [...]

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‘The new age RUN DMC’
- JoJo Simmons
Fans of Run’s House would have seen the progession of a new Hip Hop Group, Team Blackout.
Now under the guidance of Rev Run, JoJo, Reggie and Zach hope to take the Hip Hop world by storm.
The infectious ‘Lights Down Low’ has been followed by ‘Billion Dollar Boyfriend’.
In their first [...]

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