Hip Hop and Breakz

1990s Hip Hop mix with Das EFX, Beastie Boys, Jurassic 5, Canibus, Souls of Mischief, Busta Rhymes, De La Soul, The Notorious BIG, Snoop Doggy Dogg and many more. Listen live every Friday from 10pm until midnight on Crackersradio.com, via the App, on TuneInRadio, Amazon Alexa, Google Home and on DAB in Cambridge.

The Hip Hop and Breakz Old Skool Special from December 3rd 2016 on Crackers Radio with DJ Scott The Hip Hop and Breakz Old Skool Special from December 3rd 2016 on Crackers Radio with DJ Scott featuring Run DMC, Hashim, Extra T, The Beastie Boys, Slick Rick, Newcleus, Cold Crush, Davy DMX etc

It has been eleven years sine Dave, Maseo and Posdnous blessed us with an album and the world is a very different place to what it was when they released the Grind Date in 2004.  As a way of allowing the Plugs complete freedom this album was funded via Kickstarter with De La offering a wide range of rewards for fans who backed their 8th studio album.  The creative process behind this was project was handled entirely by De La allowing them to take total control of the growth of this project.  The approach is unique certainly to De La and possibly the genre itself.   The funds gathered from the Kickstarter process was used to hire a strong group of talented musicians, The Rhythm Roots Allstars and the group embarked on months of jam sessions that were recorded and then sampled as opposed to the traditional Hip Hop route that the group had followed in the past. De La recorded over two hundred hours of music with a collective of LA based...

The Hip Hop and Breakz show on Crackers Radio from Sunday the 24th of January 2016 with DJ Scott by Crackers Radio on Mixcloud

The Hip Hop and Breakz show form the 3rd of January 2016 with DJ Scott on Crackers Radio. by Crackers Radio on Mixcloud A dope selection of Classic Early 90s Hip Hop including; Big Daddy Kane, A Tribe Called Quest, LONS, Kool G Rap, Black Sheep, Organised Konfusion, Above The Law, Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth etc.  Listen in every Sunday night form 10pm via the web at Crackers Radio , on DAB in London or via the App available from the Google Play store and the Apple App store, just search for Crackers radio.

I'm back on CrackersRadio  tonight from 10pm until midnight playing classic golden age hip hop Listen live on DAB in London, via the app or at http://crackersradio.com and now you can chat via the new website with me live on air and i'll be taking requests.

So we have a Deluxe Edition of what was already a strong, albeit short album from my favourite DJ and one of the dopest emcees in the game.  What make this a Deluxe Edition?  Well four extra tracks featuring some of the best Emcees in the game; Phonte, MF Doom, Logic, Joey BaDa$$ and (God Damn) Black Thought.  I think that certainly warrants the Deluxe Edition sticker.  But is it worth the extra buck or two? Track one is called "PRhyme" and clocks in at just under four minutes.  Its a slow track for Premier similar to Nas's "Second Childhood" rather than Premier's usual up tempo tracks.  The beat features a crisp set of drums and a nice cymbal.  There is a good baseline and a nice organ riff that comes in from time to time along what sounds like a harpsichord and pan pipes.  Royce is a very skilled wordsmith and he shows this throughout the track dropping metaphors and allegories throughout.  One of my favourite lines from Royce on th...

The Hip Hop and Breakz show from December the 6th on Crackers Radio  featuring the finest Hip Hop and Breakz including Nas, Gangstarr, Diamond D, Jimmy Castor, Peabo Bryson, Monk Higgins, Kanye West, Little Brother, Johnny Guitar Watson, Sister Nancy and many more.  Remember to listen in every Sunday from 10pm until midnight on CrackersRadio where I will be playing a fine selection of 90s Hip-hop alongside funk, soul, jazz and RnB classics. listen in on DAB in London, via the app (available in the Google Play store and the Apple app store) or on the web at  http://crackers.lgr.co.uk   The Hip Hop and Breakz show form the 6th of December 2015 on Crackers Radio with DJ Scott by Crackers Radio on Mixcloud

DJ Scott presents Hip Hop and Breakz from the 5th of April 2014 on Crackers Radio by Crackers Radio on Mixcloud

DJ Scott Presents the Hip Hop and Breakz show on Crackers Radio on the 8th of March 2015 by Crackers Radio on Mixcloud A classic selection of Old Skool Hip-Hop from 1980 -1990.

Starting on Sunday the 25th of January at 10pm until midnight, I will be playing a new show on Crackers Radio  playing Classic 80s and 90s Hip Hop along with a wide variety of breaks that inspired the Hip Hop tunes.  You can listen live on the Crackers website or stream it from their Mixcloud site .

This coming Saturday, the 19th of April at  the Mau Mau Bar at 265 Portobello Rd in London Deal Real (Mid 90's London's Best Indie Hip Hop Record shop) will be holding another night of great Hip Hop.  Sarah Love, Pete Real (one of the original shop owners), Kuku and Bunn Bread. Festivities kick off at 21:00 until 02:00 and cost a measly £5 on the door.  If you love great golden era Hip Hop this is the place to be.

The Roots are one of the few groups who consistently drop great music, not just Hip-Hop but music that crosses genres.  This is the first track released from their upcoming album on Def Jam "...and then shoot your cousin" an anti rap opera.  Black Thought is on point lyrically as always, easily one of the most interesting emcees in the game and he is joined by Greg Porn on the bridge.  Musically the track has a nice piano sample over a decent mid tempo beat with a high hat.   “I’m down to 95 dollars / That’s the extent of my riches / Out of 99 problems, 98 of ‘em is bitches…

This is latest video from R.A. the Rugged Man's dope album Legends never Die.  This is a nice joint with a piano loop and guest verses from Brother Ali and Masta Ace.

The first joint from Madlib's Rock Konducta LP due to drop in December.  The track is called Black Widows and the album will be released on Stones Throw as per usual. Madlib will also be appearing across Europe in October and November Oct 19: Madlib on Boilerroom.tv Oct 29: Madlib in Budapest @ Trafó House of Contemporary Arts Oct 31: Madlib in Brussels @ Europalia Festival Nov 2: Madlib in Manchester @ Warehouse Project Nov 11: Madlib in Glasgow @ SWG3 Warehouse Always worth seeing Madlib live if you can so I would recommend catching a show.  Unfortunately no London show.

After a long delay the Kool G Rap and Necro album, Once upon a Crime is almost ready to drop. This is the first video from what promises to be one of the best underground albums of the year.

Back in the 1997 when Eminem was first introduced to Royce da 5'9 Slim Shady decided this was a lyricist with who he could make some serious Hip-Hop and he was right.  He went onto work with Eminem on The Slim Shady LP but what most hardcore hip hop fans were waiting for was Royce to step to the mic on his own.  We heard him on the Grand Theft Auto III soundtrack on the track "I'm the King" which was produced by The Alchemist and it was a dope track.  A nice beat which allowed Royce to show off his skills.  However its impact was small when you compare it to his next single "Boom".  This 12" was released in 2000 and was destined to be a big club banger.  DJ Premier produced it and he did a superb job.  The track starts off with a clock ticking and then jumps into a fantastic strings sample before being joined by some signature Premier drums.  Royce kills it lyrically just check out this first verse I'm the verbal-spit Smith Wesson I unload ...

I first heard of Cypress Hill when I saw the video for Phuncky Feel One on MTV Raps back in August 1991.  At the time you could only get MTV on Sky or Cable in the UK and although my family did not have it I would carry my video recorder the three miles to a friends house every week to record videos off MTV.  Up until that point I had never seen a Hip Hop video unless by some chance it had made it onto BBC's Top of the Pops or ITV's The Chart Show but these outlets were only for the mainstream Hip Hop acts or occasionally De La Soul or even PE.  When I saw the video for Phuncky Feel One I was struck by how diffeent and fresh this sound was.  the video was weird as hell but it really caught my attention.  I never managed to get the 12" but I certainly got the subsequent 12"s from that album.  The first of which was Hand on the Pump. Hand on the Pump is a song that immediately grabs your attention by using a vocal sample chopped expertly by DJ Muggs befo...

One of the problems that comes with have an extensive iTunes collection is that you sometimes overlook or even forget you have entire albums and projects.  This collection of remixes is one such forgotten gem.  Back when Method Man first stepped out from under the Wu Tang Clan's shadow and dropped his solo effort he was very much in demand and all sorts of people were remixing his work.  Some of these were only released in Japan, were B sides on Wu Tang 12"s or on some obscure soundtrack.  This here collections collects up a lot but not all of the obscure tracks that were around at the time. I'll Be There For You (Razor Sharp Mix) (Feat. Mary J. Blige) is the first track on this compilation.  Originally this was the on the All I need remix 12" that dropped in 1994.  The 12" also featured the Puff Daddy remix and the Soul inside remix.  This however was in my opinion the strongest of the remixes featuring a nice saxophone loop and some crisp snares...

One of my favourite underground NY producers from the late nineties/early noughties has joined forces the undisputed QB Legend Kool G Rap to drop an album later this year.  The album will be entirely produced by Necro and is set to drop on November the 19th.   Kool G Rap's raw street stories will work perfectly over Necro's grimy beats. Be sure to keep an eye on their Facebook page for updates and catch the album when it drops. The Godfathers Facebook page.