Stories about London, Culture & Creativity

This week we’ve got the culture fuelled, creatively striving, spiritual hunting, hustler minded, dope lyricist label owner, Fliptrix. Watching this guy. He used to come down to the shop in Brighton and cop some records and paint every now and then, I also snapped him on polaroid for my collection of friends and visitors to the shop. What he’s done since then, loving and respecting a culture, working hard at his game, taking advice and great advice at that from Kings in the UK Hip Hop world like Jehst and proving he can hold his own on stage, corner and meeting rooms. Along the way he may take a psychedelic to keep him clear on his spiritual path and his ferocious nature of putting out albums will have you chilling, amped, questioning and jumping on each go round. His new albums just dropped yesterday the 23rd Aug, go get it it’s called Inexhale all digital outlets and tangible pieces from high-focus.com.

If you ain’t heard him before, you’ll be intrigued by this interview and go check him after. In the meantime, enjoy and maybe check him and his squad out at @mrfliptrix and @highfocusrecords on Instagram.

Enjoy!

This week on the F24 Podcast we’ve got Maddy or as some of you may know him, Amba SDF.

Maddy’s had some adventures and we get into quite a few including his introduction to hip hop and graffiti culture, travelling and living in cities and also about his Syrian family and roots. We’re very close in age so it was amazing for me to hear about his side of London whilst I was exploring mine and also hearing about his run in’s with famous BTP officers.

Real great having him over, look out for his show today and on the first Friday of every month on k2kradio.com at 4pm.. Enjoy!

This weeks interview is with artist Bill Daggs. Bill has just finished his BA in fine art and had his first  show since graduation, I went.. It was dope and you’ll hear us talk about that.

Really great having him coming over as we have been in the same circles for 20 odd years from Kilburn, graffiti and hip hop but never really got to meet properly. He went under the name Pryme / PrymeSource with the Def Defiers and Underground Alliance. I’m sure he rapped at the shop with Undali I know for sure Doobie ‘ Lucid Mover’ introduced me to his music and with his ear I knew I’d be onto a good thing, that was years ago, Bill cracked on and went in, we have a great conversation about his influences in music, living in London and honest chats about thraphy and growing and his art.. The music in the background, its his.. check his Soundcloud and his art @billdaggs on Instagram.

Enjoy..

This weeks interview is with Britain’s very own TY, a musician from Brixton. I found TY’s music early on in moving to Brighton, I was in HMV on western rd. with my best mate Nick and we heard some amazing sounds over the stores speakers, I asked what it was and copped the vinyl straight away. It became one of the larger parts of the soundtrack for that time in my life and it was also one of the first UK Hip Hop albums I bought a culture that would become incredibly important to me over the following years, not a bad intro huh Amazing to have him round, a real pleasure. Enjoy!