Author: Micky Roots

Interviews
Interview With Skanks The Rap Martyr...
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Q. Tell us about your early hip-hop influences…there were some legends record­ing in your brother’s...
Interviews
Interview With T Damien Anyasi from @HHL1m !
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HipHop is every­where and we have all been uplif­ted by dif­fer­ent ele­ments of this cul­ture wheth­er
Interviews
Exclusive Interview with Legendary @BlackThought...
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  Since the start of their career, The Roots have pushed bound­ar­ies, set pre­ced­ents and reworked
Interviews
A Sister With Soul… An Interview With Courtney...
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The past year has cer­tainly seen the stakes rise in the female tal­ent pool. With estab­lished
Reviews
Review: ‘Marshall Mathers LP 2’
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After years spent hon­ing his craft in cut-throat rap battles in the bowels of Detroit, as
Reviews
Review: ‘Superstars Of Hip Hop’ Ft....
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Pho­to­graphy by Shar­jeel Ahmed  Novem­ber 2nd saw the Super­stars of Hip Hop event at Ham­mer­smith...
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Review: Kapwon Artist ‘The Emerald’ EP
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Hip-Hop has changed. There is no doubt or arguing that the artists most people would list
Visual Arts
@AlternativeLdn Presents: If You Don’t Know,...
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Last week I Am Hip-Hop checked out the open­ing night of East Lon­don exhib­i­tion ‘If You
Interviews
Interview: Speech Therapy with Speech Debelle...
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In 2009 Speech Debelle ruffled a lot of feath­ers when she won the Mer­cury Music Prize. 
Reviews
Review: shortMAN (@shortman_spoken) ‘Jokesville...
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All too often hip-hop is con­sidered a solely Amer­ic­an sport, an under­stand­able con­sid­er­a­tion giv­en...
Interviews
Interview With The Legendary Boots Riley...
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Boots Riley is what we would label a hip-hop legend.  As lead vocal­ist of The Coup
Reviews
Review: Hustlers Convention With Jalal Of The...
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Pho­to­graphy By: Rae Smith  Chuck D once described the ground break­ing and genre-cre­at­ing but largely...