19th May 2017
Hit The North 2017: The music festival that took Newcastle by storm
Hit The North, Newcastle’s first ever inner-city music festival was praised as being a major success over bank-holiday weekend, as…
Tag: Hip-hop
31st October 2016
Dreamland: How Mic Righteous Epitomises the D.I.Y Spirit of North East Hip-Hop
Prior to the release of ‘Survivor’, I wouldn’t have necessarily considered myself a fan of Mic Righteous. He’s always been…
20th May 2016
Interview: Spark FM’s Young Sceptic
Young Sceptic (aka Rob Leatham) has been running The Hip-Hop Show on Spark FM since 2014 and has also started…
6th May 2016
Ballad Of The Princess – Leddie MC takes stock of her career to date
Leddie MC is one the North East’s best rappers and producers and one half of Middlesbrough duo L&S. Fresh from…
20th April 2016
Racism, ‘Realness’ and Rap: Interview with Sunderland’s New North East
Mark Tyers talks 21st century racism, “realness” and all things Grime and Hip-Hop with Wearside’s very own independent movement of…
19th April 2016
Sunderland duo writes award-winning song on the refugee crisis
Fresh off their victory in an international song-writing challenge, Mark Tyers caught up with Thorney Close rapper Adam Penman and…