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UK Hip Hop - Guide to the British Scene.
  
 Getting Around: I arrived in London-Heathrow airport which is about an hour taxi ride into downtown London. (I thought the cabbie was taken me for a ride). The British cabs are a trip, you step up to the cab window tell him where you are going and throw all your bags on the ground in the cab. There is little fold down seats facing the normal seats in the rear of the cab. You don't need to really tip too much in England as they don't really expect it. I think if you do tip, it is 10% only anyways. The cheaper route of getting into town is taking the Heathrow Express train from the airport into the Waterloo tube station (subway=tube) then you can transfer to whatever line you need depending on where you want to go.» Check thetube.com website for maps and more information. London is a shopping Mecca with loads of shops around the Oxford Street area and Soho districts. If you are looking for some one of the kind sneakers then peep their shoe stores. I picked up some old skool looking Adidas, Nike and Puma trainers (as they call them) that I have never seen in the US at Cobra, on Oxford Street. The British money comes in different sizes as the denomination gets bigga. I had to flip the coins over to read the amount on them, "pence" is our equivalent of what we call "cents". The British telephone system is pretty easy to use, just get a BT Telecom card in the airport at a magazine stand in either £5 or £10 pounds. They are smart cards and can be just inserted in just about any phone booths. If you are calling back home, dial 001 then your area code and phone number. I don't really have any suggestions on where to stay in London as I was put up in a Posh hotel by my company during my visit. Get a Let's Go London travel guide book if you are on a budget. 
Look out for these artists: Rodney P, Roots Manuva, The P Brothers, TaskForce, Joe Braintax, 57th Dynasty from Brixton London, Phi-Life Cypher on Jazzfudge, Mark B and Blade. (Blade the MC and Mark B the producer.), and peep DJ Skitz' debut album 'Countryman' which is basically a window into the world of the UK Hip-Hop scene - a collection of tracks featuring over 20 guest artists, all British.Peep Task-Force - Live on Choice FM. My boy Dod$ says some Tight Notts emcees are Out Da Ville consisting of 5 members - Lee Ramesey, Tempa, Scor Zay Zee, Karizma and C-Mone. Cappo and Lost Island are groups from the Notts, Cappos pretty tight and Lost Island have got an old school vibe. They are on Son Records. UK Record Shops: Here are a couple of spots that I would recommend you check out for good beats in London and surrounding areas: Mr. Bongo 44 Poland Street London, W1V 3DA Tel: 020 7287 1887 Mail Order: 020 7287 1821 Email: hiphop@mrbongo.com (The one stop shop. - vinyl, videos, mixtapes, mags.) Reckless Records 30/26 Berwick Street London, W1 Tel: 020 7437 4271 (This spot has tons of used records, UK and US hip hop.) Blackmarket Records 25 D'Arblay London, W1 Tel: 020 7437 0478 (The one-stop Drum & Bass shop) Store Records Sheffields Leading Independent Record Shop 107 Devonshire Street, Sheffield S3 7SB Tel: (0114) 278-4933 Mailing list:mark.store@virgin.net (Spend your money here first as he is an independent store, then shop HMV and other spots.) Record Collector Fulwood Road Sheffield (Bought a James Brown album here, mostly Soul, Jazz and Rock) HMV UK Limited Film House 142 Wardour Street London W1F 8LN Tel: 020 7432 2000 Richer Sounds PLC 130 Whitham Road Broomhill, Sheffiled S10 2SN Tel: 0114 266 1616 (Cheap Mini-Discs and tons of refurbished stereo shit.) FOPP 40 Division Street Sheffield S1 4GF Tel: 0114 279 9708 (Cheap CDs for around £5 and music books. Got the Roots Manuva LP for a tener.) If your looking for a good UK record shop website, check these: » Suspect Packages » MrBongos.com » Low Life Records Places to Eat: Here are a couple of spots that I would recommend you check out for good eats in London and Sheffield: Bahn Nah Thai Restaurant (fully licensed) 19-21 Nile Street Broomhill, Sheffield S10 S. Yorks Tel: (0114) 268-4900 (Bomb ass Pad Thai, only problem is that they don't serve Thai Ice Tea?) Satsuma 56 Wardour Street London W1V 3HN Tel: 020 7437 8338 (Nice atmosphere and some good-ass bento boxes.) Places to Chill / Clubs: Bar Rumba THIS! Giles Peterson + Ben Wilcox's Night 36 Shaftesbury Avenue London, W1 Tel: 020 7287 2715 Bar Rumba (Peep this on a Monday night, nice beats.) Caramel Q Bar 12 New Burlington Street London, W1 (Didn't go but heard they have hip hop nights.) Breakin Bread Monthly - 2nd Saturday at Jax (on Shand St. 5 Min. walk from London Bridge Station UK Hip Hop Events / Magazines: Off The Hook Hip Hop Hip Hop Shows in Derby, UK Contact: James Hamlin Email: offthehook_contact@hotmail.com Grand Slam Magazine - Read no Evil. The freshest UK hip hop mag. Fat-Lace - The Mag for the Ageing B-Boy Breakin Bread - UK Hip Hop Shows TimeOut - London - Nice city guide magazine Sum British Slang: Arse/Batty - Ass Bad/Grimey/Nang/Heavy: Cool/wicked/def Bejin/Bredda/Br'er - Homie Birds - Females. Blaze - Shoot someone Borer - Knife Bukkie - Gun Bumper - Any girl with a nice, big round batty Cheers! - Thanks. Dub - Tag Estate - Housing project Fiva - Five Spot or $5. Green - Weed I could murder a fag - I really need a smoke. Jam - Chill/calm down Kotch - Rest Lean - Stoned Manor/Endz - Your area/hood Mate - Your Homie. Mind the Gap - Watch your step fool. Nonce - Peodophile Ponce - Cheap pimp Prang/Shook - Scared Scouser - Someone from Liverpool Shirt Boys - Preps or cheesy club boys. Shirt Lifter - Bati Boys. Shotter - A dealer (to shot is to sell something) Root/Slam/Shag - to fuck Sket/Slag - Ho Skag - Heroin Tener - Ten Spot or $10 bones. Shine/Nosh - Oral sex The Junkyard - What residents of Highbury Estate, Walworth, South London (near Elephant&Castle) call their endz. I can see why. Wegro - White person (not offensive like Wigga) White - Crack cocaine Ya get me! - Know what I'm saying? You Aight? - How's it going? (everyone kept asking me this...) Respekts to James Hamlin, Manny Madriaga and the Red Eye Crew in Sheffield and Dod$ for their contributions. One, theory PS: "Oh and by the way, never talk about a girl's 'fanny' in public. It isn't a posh, polite term for an arse like it is in America. It means something waaaaaay worse." - Ollie |
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