In the second installment of this interview Late and Tricksta (from the Wolftown Committee) talk about business, new material, the ideal studio, the media plus a lot of other information about this dope UK crew.

Late and Tricksta are from Wolverhampton in the UK and together as the Wolftown Committee they have released a string of albums. They are making noise globally and also have a magazine called Rago which makes for a dope read. Peep the interview! Exclusive ish man!

Looptroop is also gonna hit Durban (of course)…wouldn’t be a South African tour without a stop over in the green city by the sea so all you Durban heads keep yer ears to the ground…there is a gig lined up at the Bat Centre on the Fifteenth of March complete with local DeeJays and artists (some names you might recognize: Ghetto Prophecy Movement, African Concept, King Babar from Illumanating Shadows…)…it’s going to be well worth it, lets be honest…15 March 2003

The circle represents infinity…thus the science behind the emerging rap collective, BLACK CIRCLE arriving just in the nick of time to complete the cipher universally known as Hiphop. Representing the Washington DC and Maryland area, BLACK CIRCLE consists of 14 year veteran CEO and Executive Producer, Lawrence “Bugsy” Vereen , Theodore Vereen AKA “Black Talon”, Dequane Bogaan AKA ‘Lil Scoot”, and Bemon Bowman AKA ‘Die Slizow’.

Progressive Soul vocalist, SOMI prepares to release her forthcoming independent debut album, “Eternal Motive”.

Our contributor Rushay just keeps on working. This time around he got in touch with All Natural from Chicago. Peep it!

Paarl / Cape Town, 26 February 2003 

Mothermix Distribution closed a distribution and retail deal with retail giant Pick ‘n Pay and music distributor Music For Pleasure (MFP). Mothermix Distribution is part of The Mothermix Group, including Mothermix Records, Mothermix Music Publishing and Mel.Vent Communications. 

The deal sees KGB’s debut album “The First Born”, released on Mothermix Records, in Pick ‘n Pay Hypermarkets from March 2003, retailing for under R 50. 

More so than any other music since the blues, hip-hop is all about stories. And its stories are both criminal minded and grand, making them enthralling and unbelievable, but also making them only as interesting and convincing as the teller. That’s why, despite being blackballed by the industry, without a major-label recording contract, heads still gravitated to Jamaica, Queens realest son, 50 Cent, like the planets to the Sun.

Los Angeles based Avatar Records is going from strength to strength. What started out as a small time Black owned business has expanded and owns the rights to exclusive artists such as Tupac, Bell Biv Devoe, Brandy and many more. I recently had the opportunity to listen to their new releases thanks to heads of promotion Chris Roke.

Eminem talks about his movie 8 Mile which is being released in South Africa during March.  Do not miss this interview and do not miss this movie.  Also note we’ll be doing give aways so keep coming back to this site to check for updates.  Peep this exclusive interview!

ToneDeff and Substantial from Extended Famm take the time out to speak to us their album and life in general. Expect big things from this group and the individual members in the future. They just released “Happy F*** You Songs” so don’t miss it.

The Outrageous wave has spawned a new set of offspring; the Maximum Sentence Mixtapes. Soon to be every South African Hip Hopper’s most prized collection of local underground Hip Hop tracks, Maximum Sentence Vol 1 is the first of a series of four to be released on Outrageous Records directly to the streets. No majors, no holds barred and no strings attatched.  Peep it here (external site)

Event: Styles upon Styles
Date: 21st of February 2003 – Friday

Venue: The Zem Kafe – 4 Buiten st, Cape Town
Time: 9pm…
Cost: R40

Bands/Artists Performing:

Jamayka Poston
Moodphase5ive
Real Rozzano 
Omar
Mr MO
d-form

Check Out: www.moodphase5ive.com
www.music.org.za/artists/jamayka

Keeping it funky in the Mother City, Moodphase5ive presents:

Top Swedish Hip-Hop group Looptroop has included South Afrika on their 2002/2003 tour, visiting Johannesburg and Cape Town, Mitchells Plain residents and surrounding areas have the pleasure of seeing Looptroop with fellow Swedish bands Spot Runnaz as well as wicked solo rapper Timbuktu (all from Sweden) live on stage with the infamous M/Plain residents and legendary hip hoppas Plain Madnizz and Lions of Zion, also performing is 5th Floor who reign from Gugulethu, Langa and Claremont. Crazy Hip Squad B-Boy Crew will also be performing. Dee-Jay line-up: DJ Killer Bee from parliment + DJ Soulfinga from wild live society + female Hip-Hop jocks Kato & Purah.