Get them while you can. Support real underground Hip Hop at a price that aint no JOKE!! Get here. Only 100 copies left of the Mark B & Dialect 7 left. 10 Copies left of the Danny Spice ft Craig G. Once they are gone they are gone Big thanks to all those supporting the movement !!
Photography : Andy Higgs
Just got this link to this joint produced by Sparkii Ski, its from the Vault featuring VIC a.k.a Amadeus. Enjoy.
Ive known Madflow for a long long time, hailing from Birmingham City, Here is the first in a long overdue series from the man. Mixed by Psykhomantus, The Adominable Flowman is a 17 track project well worth a listen. My personal favourite track on there is the ‘Give it to ya’ (DJ Hell Rza mix). There is also a nice touch courtesy of the Artwork created from up coming Comic Book artist Kevin Lee Bennett.
Flow has been working alongside the kotb team for a while now, hosting Jams. Infact he is part of the PARTY GROOVE Crew, which returns to Birmingham’s Hare & Hounds March 24.
Big thanks to Maurizio The NextOne, Deal and the Crew who put on a weekend of Hip Hop Culture. Celebrating the NextOne Birthday Hip Hoppers across the globe gather to unite as one Nation Under a Groove.
Sunday saw the first of the KOTB Italy Battles. Contestants from all over Italy, Switzerland and the UK were invited to take part in this event. From the UK, Jay King (former UK champ) and Solomon Caine planned to do damage. From Switzerland was Sauce Less, he was one of the strongest contestants from last years Swiss Event. Returning to the challenge was Obie former Italian Champ. Also from Italy a strong Contender was Bigga who flipped a James Brown Classic. Judged by Pritt, Mauri and Madflow i can say Solomon Caine came through a clear Winner. Congratulations Solomon. Big Props to all the Contestants who took the time out to take on the challenge and represented considering the weather was awful -14 and 12 inches of Snow.
Big Props to : Sara, Fnan Kensei Deb, Piero Ali Passatore, Stevie Lu, Igi Boev, Jay King & Joseph Josta Seu for the pics
Here are 3 new T-shirts available exclusively from KOTB. Legendary London based aerosol writer THE ARTFUL DODGER has created two Star Wars Inspired designs. There is a limited run on these shirts, so get them while you can.
Long before Banksi came out with the Star Wars AT-AT designs. A.Dee and Pritt almost 20 years ago worked on a series of Star Wars inspired artwork which led to both of them creating pieces that featured AT-ATs with Graff on the side. Here is your chance to own the original Design on a T from one of the most significant UK writers. This is a piece of UK hip hop History and pretty fly t-shirt to wear anyway.
Its all about the AGE OF AQUARIOUS this week. 2 Days of celebration of Hip hop culture courtesy of Maurizio the NextOne. Mauri has gone all out on this one, got to love the flyer. Coming from a design and creative background, you can only take your hat off to the time and effort gone into designing the flyer, a remake of the Tribe Called Quest’s Midnight Marauders LP.
If your in Turin and would like to Join the crew and celebrate The NextOne’s Birthday here is the all important info :4th -5th Feb 2012, Lapsus, Torino, Italy. Starting time 10pm.
Sparkii Ski one of the original UK producers, known for producing artists like London Posse, MC Mello and Monie Love has been hiding out in the CAVE (his studio) for a minute working on his new project.
A fusion of his Rusty Malkie Group and his new partnership with Italian producer Maurizio The NextOne. This album promises to be defining and landmark Album. Expect nothing but quality from this man who helped forge UK Hip Hop.
Yo BBoy “Sparkii ski aka SiccaVicca” Jus letting ya know wah Gwarn these days..well ust getting into this Rusty Malkie Heritage Project, which will feature the old school heads i came up with (DJ Pogo & Co..Joker Starr, Jay King..The NextOne, MC Mello, Solomon Caine, Mikey D, DJ Grazzhoppa and a few more i hope. So look out for it ‘Heritage’. Coming to a store or hard drive near you. Peace
Recently i got involved in the development of the new Akai product. The all new MPC Renaissance. Alongside Tha 4orce we took part in the research and development of the new sampler. I was there to film and document the testing of the item in the UK.
Sitting on the footage i decided to create a short piece from the hours of footage i filmed. After passing it onto the uk rep, Andy Mac. He forwarded it onto Head Office USA. They loved it and want to run with it. So today this became one of the official Akai trailers. Big thanks to Andy Mac, Daniel Gill, Tha 4orce and Jay King.
For those wondering why the MPC is not in shot. The version we had and was testing was the only one in existence. Since that was filmed the model has changed in design completely.
7d Brothers number 1.
Big Shout to Damian, hit me up about 2am with a text. ‘You got to peep this’. This made my day. Every time we hit NYC Biggest Gordon, Phat Gary and Premo do go the extra mile and look out for me when im in town. Big thanks for all the support, Premo rocking the kotb T-shirt. Means a great deal. They support the cause. Enjoy this interview with BOOTLEGKEV. Part one of 2. Enjoy.
