On the Dutch edition of African hip hop radio we have had an impressive number of artists phoning in and visiting the studio. The latter often impressed us with a little live session….
Will Fans Ever Get To See Behind the Personas?2:30PM ET December 7th, 2011Contributor : Jecquea Howsie A Rocky Williform Company
Nicki Minaj crash landed onto the pop culture landscape a few years ago as a fresh-faced 24-year-old draped in jeans,…
Kurt Orderson is a young film maker hailing from Cape Town, South Africa. His first documentary ‘Definition of freedom’ (2004) highlighted the role hip hop played in the struggle against Apartheid, and in…
Old-timers will already have seen this when I first posted it last year.
It’s an audio documentary broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1990.
The link was originally on the rather effeminate Rapidshare service which expired in seconds, more or less.
Check the …
After a hiatus of over one year (not counting the occasional mixtape and guest shows from Nairobi), African Hip Hop Radio is back on air. Or rather the web, because the new shows…
Has Post-1996 Hip Hop Abandoned the Turntablist?2:30PM ET December 1st, 2011Contributor : Todd Williams A Rocky Williform Company
“Where’s the DJ?”
The late, great Jam-Master Jay used to say that ‘It ain’t hip hop if there ain’t no DJ,” and wh…
Alesh is one of our favorite new names on the Congo hip hop scene. The emcee/slam artist from Kisangani (eastern Congo) released his first album ‘Mort dans l’ame’ last year. ‘Bana Kin’ was…
In the house…
It was another roadblock in the Disco Scratch chatroom last night with some new faces joining the usual suspects which was really good to see.
The banter was as good as could be expected with everyone on their best behaviour as not to…
Don’t forget it’s that time of the month again.
9pm – 11pm
www.discoscratch.co.uk/radio
And keep listening ’til the end because ya never know……!
ABU was in the house last night rocking the wheels as a guest with DJ Just-1 and Mr Eps on The Hip Hop Sessions show.
Listen to the download to hear how it went down.
Tracklisting…. as they say, ‘look away now if you don’t want to know the results…