The Hip Hop Chronicle UK

HardKnockTV provide some footage of Lauryn performing “Lost Ones”  

  Ski Dead Presidents from XXL Video on Vimeo.     Thanks to XXL

    Alot was made of Jay-Z’s appearance at Glastonbury a few years ago. Many including myself saw the appearance as progression. Festivals are generally been considered as either rock or indie music events but that perception is ever changing. This is where Sony’s Fantasy Festival comes in.   Sony’s Fantasy Festival is a free, points based league game. The aim – to assemble the ultimate, imaginary festival line-up and gain   Read More ...

Jay-Z performed at the All Points West Festival. He replaced the Beastie Boys following sad news that MCA of the Beastie’s was diagnoised with cancer. To open the show, Jay-Z paid tribute to the group. Elliott Wilson over at Rap Radar said, In a stirring opener on par with his Oasis shocker at Glastonbury, Hov paid tribute to MCA and the Beastie Boys (who he replaced on this show) with   Read More ...

Jay-Z has been confirmed to perform at the All Points Festival in New Jersey at the end of this month. The star will stand in for the Beastie Boys who were forced to pull out following the news that member MCA (Adam Yauch) was diagonised with cancer. Jay-Z is no stranger to festivals having performed at Glastonbury, Wireless and the Hove festival last year. Hova headlines the festival bill on   Read More ...

I posted a story on this yesterday. I knew Semtex had footage of it! lol So we were at the Rockness Festival, Scotland this weekend. 26,000 ravers on the shores of Loch Ness. We were on the main stage, and the crowd were moshing too hard, a couple of people couldn’t handle it at the front and had to be pulled out of the crowd by the security/medic teams. So   Read More ...

Dizzee Rascal is a leading UK music artist, a rapper and now peacemaker. During his set at the recent Rockness festival in Scotland, the rapper was forced to playing some R&B music to stop a fight that had broke out at the front of the stage. While the people in the fight went “Bonkers”, Dizzee told Semtex (his offical DJ) to play some slow R&B ballads until the people stopped fighting. The rapper   Read More ...