…e only low I felt was me getting impatient! It makes a change being around people older than me as I’m so used to the people I surround myself with being my age, this has made me grow and bring the great, positive energy that NoSpace gives into the rest of my life outside the studio. Being around their confidence, talent and appreciation for creativity has made me more so much more confident and therefore let me appreciate the music I create. The…
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…You may have just missed the extremely limited 45 release of this single, previewing Illa J’s upcoming album on Bastard Jazz. Panic not though, as you can buy the digital from Bandcamp. Boost the signal: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp…
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…. Anyone who could create a profile was a rapper, which made it harder for people who really had made it a point to master their craft. People were jaded from getting a billion friends requests a day. It’s like a girl getting hit on twenty times at a bar. You could be Mr. Right, but by the time you get to her, she’s over it. Subz: that’s why you have to be interesting, original, and at least slightly familiar, you dig? What made LA special in the…
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…one everywhere? And there’s still a few markets it hasn’t got to yet. Some people may speak more freely now, a lot of people are rapping about… whatever they rap about these days. We just rapped about what we knew. That’s what we really did. And we did what we wanted to do. And we didn’t let nothing change us. Nothing stopped us. So you know, hopefully music will change again, go back to the old school style. I hope (laughs). Do you think it’s…
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…issues from a British standpoint. This is deliberate as I hope it will get people to perhaps open themselves up to conversations around discrimination, profiling and police misconduct. Also perhaps the optimist in me hopes that it will lead to people perhaps conducting their own research and learning more about what is going on at the moment, like Moyeid Bashir and Mohammed Hassan, who were two men of colour in Wales who have died after being in p…
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…selection with more scrutiny, or creating more of social environment that people want to be in, hosting instore events where they can etc, enticing people away from just clicking ‘buy’ on a website – there’s no doubt at all how important it is to cover all those elements. With the internet, every record shop is a global player nowadays, but the need to keep their grassroots physical punters happy is still just as important, if not more so. Moody…
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…this drug in the story called Amorine, and it’s the idea that all the rich people live at the top layer of the city, kind of like Judge Dredd. The poorer people take this drug to make them feel happy. The story progressed over a day or so then I sent her the synopsis, and said we’re going to be scoring this love story, this movie, and that’s how she approached the lyrics and we approached the music. ‘It took about six months maybe, we went back an…
Read more…. Its how you promote with zero dollars, when you cant get in front of the people. So you gotta respect the net and the people on it. Thats the way info is passed now, especially info on hip hop. Have you found it hard to get people to see past their established tastes? Umm… I think peoples established tastes help more than they hurt. The hurdle is getting them to LISTEN. Its a little easier to get them to do that when have something to compare yo…
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…ep. Ideally we would have got funding, found a base and a hub, a space for people to come and connect and enquire about connecting with other people in a creative way from construction of urban spaces, to putting together of live creative arts festivals, and a nationwide presence. Perhaps expanding into food cultivation and other such creative skills that just a bigger a creative social space with a prominent place in the northern environment. But…
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