SPIT: 90 Minutes of Hip Hop

Have been listening to some UK rap I've found on mixtapetorrent and raphustle lately and some of it has caught my attention. MCs Mega and Mayhem were recently signed to the Roc-A-Fella/DipSet outfit and have released several mixtapes and miscellaneous stuff over the last couple of years.

Although some of it is pretty bland and perhaps "too New York" (in a DipSet-way) for some, there's no denying these guys know what they're doing. The two brothers Mega and Mayhem moved from London to New York after one of them was offered a basketball scholarship there and they soon got attention from the biggest in the game. Apparently Kanye West was interested in a production deal but thank God they didn't go with that or we would soon hear them in a mash-up with an American Idol winner or something.

Full of fancy word play and a very cocky mix between Staten Island and cockney slang these guys tear up any track, especially the slow signature DipSet beats with the cinematic samples they usually do. Definitely worth checking out. Their Streets All Salute Mixtape is good, so is the Dipset/Eurogang mixtape by Grind Entertainment and Harlem Piff.