IF you dont know Lowlife...

[erkl]

just wanna turn some of you guys to http://www.lowliferecords.freeserve.co.uk/
some real good UK hiphop -

check out Mystro and Jehst, some good shit

 

[berserk]

yep... talkin with them about some work at the moment... jehst is aight... mystro is dope... braintax is dope... rodney p is the dopest...

 

[JPeg]

mystro is heavy, jhest is good but he aint the most charismatic emcee ive heard, his voice is kinda boring.

 

[MarkN]

isn't skinnyman on lowlife too ? he's dope.... and rodney p is pretty good too as for the rest there not my kinda thing, jehst just seems boring like a lyrical robot lol, but people seem to rate him as some sort of god !

 

[Cleverwon]

Yea if you can get used to the british accents, the words are pretty good. I heard Jehst and i think he's lyrically better than 80% of rappers from the usa.

 

[berserk]

na jehst is not that enjoyable to listen to... Mystro, Skinnyman, Rodney P, Braintax etc. are all actually really good rappers...

 

[Lex]

I don't think Jehst is all that bad....I have his album 'Fallin Down' and there is some really varied stuff on there, particularly production-wise.

And, I think Lewis Parker deserves a mention - he's managed to work with so many UK artists and produces some really tight tracks [including all of the stuff on his own albums].

 

[berserk]

yeah lewis parker is heavy... copped that album a couple of weeks back...

 

[Lex]

Yeah, I got 'Its All Happening Now'...tight stuff. As for UK hiphop you can't really beat Mark B & Blade either.

 

[berserk]

na Blade's voice gets on my fucking tits... not his fault... good rapper and all... just annoyinh voice... all happening now's the one i got... released on virgin.. Lowkey is the illest in the UK right now..

 

[Lex]

Fair enough...I just like the way Mark B & Blade work togetehr so well...it just sounds right. And yeah, Lowkey's tight too.

 

[DjDelay]

Mark B & Blade as a duo were a killer combo, but Blade on his own just ain't all that. He's a decent lyricist and performer but from what i've heard from him recently the production is just plain weak

Skinnyman is definitely one of the best out there in the UK, Kyza is wicked also. Fallacy is also a wicked MC but he seems to have fallen off the radar recently??

UK rap is definitely on the up, but IMO they need to up it on the production and do a few more party tracks. Do more songs that have a chance of actually being played out at a club rather than just underground sounding tracks

 

[Lex]

I completely know what you mean, in that UK artists should make stuff that they might actually play in clubs....but in a way its kinda cool at the moment - Its scene that has not yet been subject to commercialisation and artists within the scene rarely sound the same. Which is undoubtedly a good thing. The production in itself also sounds a lot different to the majority of equivilant tracks being released by US artists.

 

[berserk]

yep i agree