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Rhyme Asylum Interview - 13th November Meet Possessed, Skirmish, and Psiklone aka Rhyme Asylum a trio of rappers and producers who are based in London . Rhyme Asylum currently has their debut album ‘State Of Lunacy ’ out at the moment. It’s an album that puts words at the forefront of the music and takes you on a very vivid lyrical journey over some crackly and minimal beats. There’s tracks such as the downbeat ‘Unreasonable’, the dark head nodder that is ‘Deranged Delirium’, and ‘Attitude Problem’ which does what it says on the tin by being in your face and putting the world to rights, and in particular being pissed of with hip-hop, which the guys talk about here, and is generally bone shakingly thrilling. ‘State Of Lunacy ’ is an album that tries to sum up who and what Rhyme Asylum is about. They’ve also been noticed in the USA as well which Rhyme Asylum also talks about. Basically you be best advised to get locked down with the Rhyme Asylum... - Rhyme Asylum interview   Styly Cee & Cappo Interview - 5th November Styly Cee hasn't featured on these pages since 2000 but Cappo has been here plenty of times over the years. Now these Notts stalwarts have a storming "Fresh, hard & heavy 21st century hip-hop" EP on Son Records which is picking up some well deserved praise so it was high time they were back on ukhh.com again... - Styly Cee & Cappo interview   K-Delight Interview - 30th October With the now classic 'CTRL:ALT:THE BEAT' mix CD released by ukhh.com back in 2006 and a new album just dropping following the recent backspinning 7" it's high time to catch up again with K-Delight so we got Robster from The Chaos skate crew to get the lowdown on the ‘AUDIO REVOLUTION’, the album that gave him tunnel vision... - K-Delight interview   Central Spillz Interview - 2nd October With the current state of ‘true’ hip hop in decline and with passionate hip hop followers calling it ‘dead’; more and more artists are producing hybrid sounding music, a mixture of hip hop, dubstep and grime, to create something new and fresh. One Bristol based crew, Central Spillz, are creating this new sounding hip hop and doing it very well indeed. Central Spillz comprises of three MC’s and a DJ; these guys now live in the musically thriving city of Bristol, but have come via London, Somerset & Lancashire. Meeting in the middle ground between the sounds of dubstep and hip hop. The natural sound they produce is down to experience within the other genres of ‘urban’ music; they feel they bring the content of hip hop through the lyrics along with the energy of grime; something that is definitely needed within in the hip hop scene today.... - Central Spillz interview   Jazz T Interview - 1st October As a founding member of Surrey’s Diversion Tactics crew, Jazz T has more than proven himself over the years as both a talented DJ and an astute producer. From the dusty-fingered beats of DT’s debut 2002 album “Pubs, Drunks And Hip-Hop” to the unapologetically raw tracks heard on T’s new solo project “All City Kings”, the former UK ITF DJ champion has consistently remained faithful to the true-school Hip-Hop blueprint he first discovered back in the 80s. Currently keeping busy supplying the beats at London’s respected open-mic event End Of The Weak, Jazz T recently tore himself away from sifting through old sci-fi soundtracks for new sample material to talk about his new album, production techniques, and future plans... - Jazz T interview   8thW1 Interview - 22nd September "8thW1 skills as an MC, are a complicated mix of scholar, gentleman and b-boy". Here, the New Jersey native talks about the demi-god’s of music and bringing people together, with the controversy of ‘selling out’…And on THAT subject we could talk all day; but we won’t. 8thW1 has bigger fish to fry, and a movement to create. See for yourself… - 8thW1 interview   Lazy Habits Interview - 6th September With numerous festival appearances already this year, and many more to come, this band have built up reputation and repertoire as one of the most blistering live acts around. With two highly successful EPs under the belt, a fantastic new single out now, and another big single in the pipeline, J~bright talks to MC Lazy, frontman for and representing the brilliant - Lazy Habits... - Lazy Habits interview   MIC:CTRL Interview and Competition - 25th August In case you missed the ad over there and the launch party last month we've got a new CD out - Mic:Ctrl mixed by Blufoot & Wytfang is available now and picking up some good press. For a bit more background on the responsible parties we've got an interview with Blufoot and Wytfang and once you've read that you can win a copy as part of the ukhh goody bag in our competition... get going.   - Blufoot & Wytfang interview - Mic:Ctrl Competition   Blak Twang Interview - 15th August Blak Twang has been a stalwart, fundamental force in hiphop in the UK since the early days of it’s development. Carving out a plethora of classic ranging from “Red Letters” all the way to the anthemic “Kik Off”, Taipanic has proven himself to stay relevant in the days of disposable artists. With a new single, a new album, and an even more ferocious candour, The Twangsta caught up with UKHH’s roving beatmaker The Last Skeptik to discuss matters further... - Blak Twang interview   Late Interview - 5th August In 1995 two aspiring businessmen founded the UK based label Wolftown Recordings, many years later this empire is one of the leading independent music establishments running strong in the UK. With the infamous mix tape series UK Runnings, international PR company Park Street PR and Rago Magazine, Tricksta and Late have such an incomparable portfolio laced within the music industry they put major record businesses to shame. ‘Two Thousand & Late’ is the current project of ‘08 and although Late has established himself as an artist, he’s an all round entertainer and businessman which will never go unnoticed. UKHH doesn’t miss a ‘tricksta’ and talks to Late about his musical affairs to date. - Late interview   Flying Lotus Interview - 10th July In person Flying Lotus is huge, a big friendly giant if you will. Much like his compositions Steven Ellison is full of contradictions and funny quirks – he is well versed in literature, music, film, has a fierce passion for politics and punctuates every sentence with at least one expletive. As well as having a tendency to go off on spacey tangents. He also enjoys playing computer games, chatting up girls and it’s probably fair to say, the occasional jazz cigarette. Mostly standard stuff except for the unconscious eccentricity that often separates geniuses from the rest of us... Kane met up with this genius in face and on phone to bring you an insight into the genius.... - Flying Lotus interview  Stuff you should know Any general feedback, special offers, promos, big-ups or top 10 reasons why you think we could do a better job should be sent to the following address... info@ukhh.com - yes that one... If you need to send us stuff, t-shirts, tickets, records or actual cash, here is the address: UKHH.com, P.O. Box 49654, London, N8 7YB, UK... recent updates 03.08.08 The first new reviews for quite some time have been added, thanks to Chris Byrne. 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