Gigs A The Weekend

NO BEEF BATTLES & SPEAKEASY @ THE HYENA COMEDY CLUB NEWCASTLE ON FRIDAY!!!!
£5 entry doors open @ 10:00pm


After the success of our Don't Flop event, we're back! And monthly this time, serving up a healthy portion of rap battles for the discerning hiphop addict. This time we hand the stage over to NO BEEF who will be providing this evening's thrift of northern rappers, as well as a headline battle between Geordie favourite SUUS and Don't Flop's finest female, DEKAY. Should make for an excellent match! Tickets are £5 from the usual places. See you there!

TICKETS ARE NOW ONLINE AT SKIDDLE.COM

Here is the link >>> http://www.skiddle.com/events/11859454/<<<< Also on the bill... Conscript v Jack Sexton Barrabus v Bam The Bastard Jister v Triple B Skinn v Blunt The day after World Head Quarters hosts this... Stone Baked Entertainment & Tantrik Present: In association with BOOM BAP FESITVAL DIRTY DIKE - THE RETURN OF THE TWAT UK TOUR! TICKETS ----> http://www.notjustaticket.com/events/335 <---- STEKCIT On this wonderful sunny day in May, Dirty Dike, Jam Baxter, Ed Scissortongue and Sammy B-Side make they're World Headquarters debut. Fresh from the release of the Return of the Twat Album & Sloshpot EP, Dirty Dike a.k.a Mr Dikestar has been racking hit hundreds of thousands of plays on Youtube and touring all around the UK and Europe! Dont miss the Newcastle section of the tour! This is a show definitely not to be missed! And as its May the 4th (Be with you), Come in STAR WARS FANCY DRESS and get £2 off if your paying on the door! I wana see loads of Jedi/Sith/Stormtroopers/Ewoks/Chewies bopping theyre heads to some amazing UK Hip Hop! Tickets: Early Bird's: £5 SOLD OUT!! Standard Advance: £8 OTD: £10 or £8 if in STAR WARS FANCY DRESS! Line Up: DIRTY DIKE JAM BAXTER ED SCISSORTONGUE SAMMY B-SIDE THE SKRUFZ THE PROJEKT ZICO SERENITY DUBS QUIXOTIX POWERED BY THE MIGHTY SERENITY SOUNDSYSTEM Boom Bap Festival 13th - 15th September 2013. Tickets on sale from www.boombapuk.com www.facebook.com/boombapfestival @BoomBapUK Tunes: Dirty Dike: Pork Pie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wf9UxvHQe0 Edward Scissortongue: Coma - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zgmg9-d03U The Four Owls ft Dirty Dike: Much Too Much - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT2oAcGMC9s Jam Baxter ft Dirty Dike: Filet Mignon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuZAbNZIF7s Sammy B-Side: http://soundcloud.com/djsammybside DIRTY DIKE - THE RETURN OF THE TWAT Contact Play treasurer and SMB chief executive Dirty Dike returns with his third solo Long player on High Focus Records next month. 'Return Of The Twat' is as hotly anticipated as any UK hip hop release has been in a VERY long time and while it is set to propel Dike further skyward in his assail to the very top of the rap tree, it also promises to divide opinion each and every step along the way. In this regard, 'Return Of The Twat' is a musical tripod; the work of two extremely gifted producers, and one emcee, working in matrimony to shape a finished product. Said finished product sees Dirty Dike at his very wickedest. If you thought he couldn't get more brash and offensive, think again. It could be argued that 'Return Of The Twat' is simply too nice on him, we will leave that up to you to decide. 'Return Of The Twat' will make each and every Dirty Dike fan extremely happy. That is a promise. It will reaffirm his place as the filthiest emcee in show business. It will also piss a huge heap of people off. It will make people angry, happy, sad, emotional and dizzy. All of the above in equal measure. But, then again, that's the whole point no? Simply churning out another rap album to simply 'cross the T's and dot the I's' is far more repugnant and offensive than getting knee deep in the filth is it not? As Dirty Dike asks himself (as should you) on a daily basis, why oh why are we all taking ourselves so seriously? And why are we so scared to say what we really want to? If the answer to either of the previous questions has anything to do with 'not causing offence' or 'saving face', then Dirty Dike really is as ignorant and enlightened as anyone you will ever meet. 'Return Of The Twat' is out on 13th May 2013 on High Focus Records on CD, Digital & Limited Edition Gatefold Vinyl with red discs! http://www.high-focus.com/

Spring Update

Sorry about the lack of updates on here. Sorting a few niggly issues out, looking forward to getting some more forward thinking ideas addressed.
Keep on the look out for 'NEHH.tv Presents.... Episodes' in the near future. It will feature an artist from the north east in each 'Episode' from all parts of the hip-hop culture. (b-boys/girls, letterheads, rappers, promoters and basicly anything more) If you'd like to be a part of this let me know @ leebuddle@gmail.com.
Also North East Hip Hop Blog are going to help promote by releasing a compilation CD called NE HIPHOP PRESENTS .. UP NORTH Volume 1. if we get enough submitted tracks them volume 2/3/4/5 ect... will be released each month. These will contain 20 tracks from artists in the north east or oridginaly from the north east. and if youd like your track on here submit ur track to leebuddle@gmail.com

- Mr Budds

Sub Level 2 - Hip-Hop Tuesdays -

sublevel2 presents: NEunderground
http://sublevel2.pl/

EVERY Tue night 10pm - 2am @head of steam basement

sponsored by HekTik records & The bottomlesscrates check em for NE artists, T's n all things hiphop!

http://www.thebottomlesscrates.com/

http://hektikrecords.co.uk/

::NE underground::

--FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT--

--------HipHop------

We want to make a place for people to come down, play there tunes, get there work out and have a drink n cypher! Our resident DJs will be there all night but just inbox sbl or come down with some of your best tracks and get em on the decks.


Resident DJs & MCs willl be on the beats and toast!

::Rick Fury & Layla Lu [Killamari/NEunderground]
http://www.facebook.com/RICKFURYHIPHOP

::Pegz [SubLevel2/MTC] - beats n beats
https://soundcloud.com/pegz

::J-man [SubLevel2/brainfeeders] - Beats n toast
https://soundcloud.com/j-man-4

:: DJ ADS [killamari/NE underground] - scratch and beats

::Zico [serenity/lively up/deep thinkers/NEunderground] - MC & Beats

http://www.facebook.com/louiezico

::l87 [SubLevel2] - beats
https://soundcloud.com/l87




Various Live P.A from Hektik records, or if you have something u wana get out to a crowd bring it down!!!!

Come down and make a home for the NE HipHop underground!!!!

Tune into http://www.thebottomlesscrates.com/ every Wednesday for the best in all things HipHop!!!!


Ty SBL crew

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Smooth Jezza - Momoirs Of A Blazer (LP Review)

review 1
Lyical Complexity 9/10 Jezza seems to flip comfortably between rollin hip hop style and a much sharper grime vibe
Content 8/10 lots of nice guest spots, great selection of tempos and styles, always a fan of "concept albums" but jezza manages to keep it all interesting and flowing. Reppin north east style heavily which is what it should be about, geordie rap sounds good... haters gonna hate
Originality 7/10 some popular themes but handled with Jezza's own style
Production 6/10 great beats but volume drops between certain tracks, suggests needed a final master done. Jezza's vocal sounds abit too raw on some and could have benefited from a bit more production, otherwise spot on, nice interesting sounds, good selection of producers
Style 9/10 always been a fan of Jezza's style and this epic tracklist gives him enough time to showcase his different flavas
fav tracks
play d flute like
dubtronic (obviously haha)
DCCD
Foreign Shiz
North East Parties
Radio


review 2
As a rapper, Smooth Jezza is all things to all men. For example in Slow rapz, the line “So far things were irrelevant like taxing pasties, so fat cats can laugh at us from heights like mike Ashley” conjures images of Ashley downing a pint in the stand at St James with his Toon top on, cause that’s what Geordie's do; right? Nobody, and I mean nobody can spit it like Smooth Jezza. He has a broad range of experience to draw from and has a lyrical prowess that is unique; which is why he stands out from the crowd. However, here comes the but.
Unfortunately, Memoirs of a blazer has tried to please all the people all of the time. Weighing in at 34 tracks, it feels to me more like an incomplete Click album mixed in to a solo project; and it doesn’t work. From the heart, I honestly believe it would have been better to drop the Click tracks as an EP and done a separate Smooth Jezza project. The pace, and quality of track production, as you listen to Memoirs of a blazer is too inconsistent to make it a really memorable mixtape. Don’t get me wrong, there are some blistering tracks on there! 7 were cranked up; Play d flute like, All wrecked, Clique Smooth edition, Jezz spit grime, All night, Oldskool remix (twice) & Radio. But, that’s only 1 more than I skipped. In conclusion, it touches on the sublime plenty of times, but the tracks that let it down pull it back to an average project.
lyrical complexity 8
content 6
originality 4
production 5
style 4

review 3
Lyrics 8/10 a whole Mixtape of double time can sometimes start being hard to listen to.
Content 6/10 over 30 tracks is way to many in this day and age people don't have near 2 hours to sit and listen through whole thing, shorten it down so it's easier to listen to and also quicker to get to your favourite parts. But that's isn't taking anything away from the lyrics and beats, and also the features on there.
Originality 10 jez has a great mind for what works on track few voice change ups, aswell as some singy parts his concepts are solid if I was to nit pick tho (to much green)
Production 6 again this is due to the amount of tracks on there and you can tell its been mixed and mastered in different places which is problem when you have multiple people working on the sound of your music without given input to each other the Mixtape suffers has volume wise it's up and down some tracks also need to boost Jezza lyrics in a few tracks aswell as a boost to some of the beats on there, a lot seem just mixed and not mastered.
Style 9 with a personality and swagger which you pick up on from the get go Jezza is an easy choice when picking who you wanna listen to and watch live.