rap/hip-hop
News: Stormzy Teams Up With All Points East Festival For His Own Headlining Day
Luno presents All Points East returns with its first 2023 headliner and they don’t get much bigger than this….Stormzy will headline All Points East onFriday 18th August 2023 and team up with the festival to curate a day of artists for an unforgettable ‘This Is What We Mean Day’. Tickets are available here Stormzy already …
Live Review: Scrannabis / Jamilah / Maxine – Independent, Sunderland 06.08.2022
By Adam Littlemore Another night of amazing music and great vibes all around at the Independent Venue in Sunderland. Three acts were on tonight. Maxine opened the night with her amazing voice, getting the whole crowd singing and dancing along to her music. I remember when I saw her at this very venue for the …
Live Review: Les Nuits Secretees Festival – Aulnoye-Ameries, France 22.07.2022 – 24.07.2022
Going to festivals and collecting the press accreditation is like childbirth – it’s best to forget how painful the process can be otherwise you’d never attend another festival again. So here I am in the sun-bleached fields at the back of Aulnoye-Aymeries railway station in Northern France wandering around aimlessly muttering “pardon, je suis Anglais” to …
Track: Delilah Bon – Dead Men Don’t Rape
Lauren Tate from Hands Off Gretel is angry, like countless others throughout the world, following the recent news coming from the US that sees more women and those with uterus’ lose their rights to legal abortion and bodily autonomy. Using her alter ego Delilah Bon, Tate has unleashed her anger in her new track ‘Dead …
Meet: 10 Questions With … Delilah Bon
Delilah Bon aka Lauren Tate from Hands Off Gretel has taken matters into her own hands and set out to make music that tackles many issues faced by women in music and in the greater world. Bringing to life her internal rage with a mash up of punk, hip hop and metal to create music that speaks …
Track: Mulini releases the bubbling R&B/electro of Keep Moving
Alternative artist and producer, Mulini’s new track ‘Keep Moving’, articulates a self-deprecating mental state that many of us have had to drag themselves through over the past 12-months. This record features Nuneaton-based rapper GSQ2, and is definitely not one to sleep on in this blurred space between alternative Hip Hop and grunge. The track was …
ALBUM REVIEW: slowthai – TYRON
The funny thing about TYRON is how clearly slowthai intends towards something, but never quite approaches it. Nothing Great About Britain was excellent – not to mention very clear in its concept – and bought him considerable goodwill, but it may also have painted him into a corner. Tyron Frampton approaches things differently this time …
SEE: PUBLIC ENEMY RELEASES NEW ANIMATED VIDEO – ‘PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER WON’
Hip Hop’s original champions of change are back with a new track and album. ‘Public Enemy Number Won’ from the album, ‘What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down?’, is an animated visual treat with contributions from Ad-Rock, Beastie Boy Mike D and Run-DMC. The track is a homage to the original 1987 tune …
News: New permanent mural in Brixton pays homage to lost rapper Ty
Here at Backseat Mafia we were upset when we heard that London rapper Ty had died, a man we had written about quite a bit on the site, and interviewed as well. So we were delighted to receive the news that there is a new permanent Brixton mural pay homage to himafter he passed away …
Track: John Dole – Collective Thoughts
Mixing up hip-hop and smooth R&B beats, John Dole is becoming a real player in the North East hip-hop scene and beyond. The Newcastle MC describes his sound as ‘alternative rap’, and there’s certainly a sense of that in his new single ‘Collective Thoughts’. Wonky synths and and warm R&B descending lines open the show …