The Hip Hop Chronicle UK

This should be dope!   Heads Up: 57th

As I reported a few days back, BET released the roster for the BET ciphers for this year’s BET Hip Hop Awards. Ice Cube and his son’s were paired up with Rev Run and his sons. The segment was filmed recently and Cube took to his blog to talk about it. What up fam? Last night I stood on a roof in Brooklyn wit my 2 sons (OMG & Doughboy)   Read More ...

 50 Cent is finally taking a break from tweeting, well until the MTV VMA’s. The rapper is taking a short hiatus to continue work on his new album and get collaborations going. Speaking to Shaheem Reid over at MTV 50 said, “A lot of producers send stuff that’s interesting. To me, it inspires me to write with different cadences, see a different style. I don’t want the record to sound   Read More ...

Cee-Lo Green has revealed that he went through a Goth phase when he was younger. Speaking to NME, he explained how he used to wear alot of black because it made him feel invisible. “I did have a Goth phase. I definitely went through a period of my life when I was listening to The Cure. I wore a lot of black. It wasn’t that I was trying to not   Read More ...

Linkin Park have a tribute track to Public Enemy on their new album. The new project called “A Thousand Suns” has an ode to Chuck D and the legendary group. Speaking to NME, Mike Shinoda said, “There is a homage to Chuck D on there. It’s probably the most hip-hop song on the record and one of the most aggressive. Public Enemy were very three-dimensional with their records because although they seemed   Read More ...

50 Cent has been continuing his twitter takeover by announcing that he won’t cut his hair until his album is done. “I’m not gonna cut my hair ’till I finish my album. I’m working on it now. I’m writing… I’m not cutting my hair till it’s done.” Jay-Z is another rapper who uses the same discipline when working on music. 50 is currently working on his 2009 follow up Before I   Read More ...

Some nice news reached me today that Hip Hop legend Big Daddy Kane will be performing two shows in London this coming October. Londoners mark your diaries for Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th The venue is looking like Jazz Cafe in Camden but waiting on that to be confirmed. Birmingham fans will also have a chance to see the BDK on Sunday 24th October. There aint no half steppin

Eminem has sold a whopping 753,870 units of “Recovery” in the first week sales according to HitsDailyDouble Slim Shady was predicted to score the highest first week sales and he has done that. 5th number one for Eminem if anyone is keeping count. Drake sold 156k in his second week and The Roots sold 49,320 in the first week of releasing “How I Got Over” The official numbers are out   Read More ...

Could it be? Are we going to get the first single off Dr. Dre’s Detox album? This is the rumour floating about on the interwebs. According to  Michael Yo from E! News a new single from Dr. Dre featuring Jay-Z will be dropping sometime this week. I’ll believe it when it drops. Stay tuned! Thanks to UHTN for the heads up and screen grabs.