Rhyme Asylum - Fire In The Booth

Rhyme Asylum on fire in the booth with some massive bars

Stylus Promotions (News and Events)

In a world full of 'janky' promoters that will just put any thrash on a hiphop night if they promise to sell tickets or pay, resulting in your favourite hiphop acts being supported by artists that are not up to standard its refreshing to see a company that is motivated by putting on quality nights.
Enter Stylus Promotions who are about to bring nights to the Rhythm Factory in London featuring UK Legends Phi-Life Cypher,Germanys very own Snowgoons,PMD,the superb Rhyme Asylum,Iron Braydz,Sean Strange,Grit Grammar,Capital R and more.
Find out more about the only UK date of Snowgoons Kraftwerk tour on the 23rd of January here and more about the Phi-Life Cypher show here and Stylus Promotions here

'Solitary Confinement' - Rhyme Asylum (review)

Wordplay and lyricism comes by the pound (see ‘Strange Deranged’ featuring Reain for a perfect example - common phrases are sliced and spliced effortlessly) on Rhyme Asylum’s second album ‘Solitary Confinement’. ‘The ‘N Word’’ does wordplay with a message.

Their track ‘The Art of Raw’ sums them up nicely; they do raw artfully and poetically leaving more to the imagination and, as a result, painting a much more graphic picture in the listeners mind. For those with a taste for more vivid imagery there’s always ‘For The Hate’.

Continuing a theme started on their debut album, Possessed, Psiklone and Skirmish have invited along a couple of American voices, most notably Ill Bill (on ‘Open Mic Surgery’ with DarkStar) and Crooked-I. Each MC on the album sounds absolutely at home on this honed product.

Positive vibes aren’t hard to find here either. ‘Returmination’ is a motivational affair and ‘Life Support’ sees Rap quotables weaved into a tribute to this thing we call Hip Hop.

All of these rhyming goings on are backed up by some of the most solid and consistent productions around with a strictly gritty, East Coast, boom to the bap sound.

Rhyme Asylum are an underrated crew, this is a very solid album and I can’t stress this enough: if you don’t know, get to know. Buy this album. It’s out now and can be ordered from the Rhyme Asylum website on CD or it can be downloaded from itunes for only £5.49.

'Solitary Confinement' - Rhyme Asylum Coming Soon

Check out Rhyme Asylum's myspace (remember that?) for tracks from their forthcoming LP 'Solitary Confinement'.

Free Rhyme Asylum

Rhyme Asylum, the British group who dropped one of last years illest albums 'State of Lunacy' (which I just realised had artwork by Skam2? of 'Beats, Rhymes & Life' fame among others), have been dropping some free mp3s over on their myspace page.

As a group they offer you non-album tracks 'Deranged Division' and 'The Uprising' and MC Possessed provides 'Victory Speech' and whilst I'm not always down with the things they say, I'm down with the fact that they think and have viewpoints in their rhymes.

Reviews Coming Up @ Certified Banger

Yo! My postie has been a busy man over the last week or so (and so has my virtual postie) and I've got millions of CD's and tracks and things to review. Let me give you a list so you know what to look forward to:

Sway - 'The Signature LP'

Skreintax - 'Scene Stealers'

Illustrate - 'The Stuff'

Rhyme Asylum - 'State of Lunacy'

TB - 'The Beast From The East'

M9 - '144,000'

Chronic Redeye - 'Knowledge is King'

Geejay - 'I Came To Represent'

Dap-C - 'Street Karma'

Pyroradio.com Presents 'Top Selectors'

Occupy Your Mind Records Presents 'Grime'

Evil Ed & Conspicuous - 'The Get Together'

Jazz T - 'All City Kings'

Wordsmith - 'They Don't Seem To Care' EP

The Mantis Chapter - 'Graveyard Poets' EP

So check back regularly, add me to your reader feeder or whatever to find out what's going to be worth listening to out of this little lot!