Hip Hop Connection Magazine - Issues #5 & #6

In Full Effect! Bus' Dis!
Here we go in our continuing saga of digitizing the past with the next next two issues of Hip Hop Connection magazine - issues #5 & #6 from June & July 1989.

More articles focussing in on the who's who of hip-hop of the day (Big Daddy Kane, Lakim Shabazz, Monie Love, Ultramagnetic MCs) and a spotlight on some of the lesser-known acts, too (MC Einstein, Kiss AMC, Prince Lover Dalu, London Rhyme Syndicate).
July's edition has a graffiti special as it covers the Bridlington International Street Art competition with artists from all over Europe.

The sections I'm most interested in though are the Letters and the Connections pages. It's interesting reading some of the names and finding people I now know.
Talking of which, Issue #6's Connections has a certain Mancunian from a certain Mancunian group who had a vinyl release of their album as recent as last year (on Style Warrior Records)
Download issue #5
Download issue #6

Japanese Kold Sweat Tee

The LOVEGROVE designhouse is powering ahead and definitely Right & Exact lately.
There seems to be a brand new idea making it's way to fruition almost every week these days and it's never a duff one either.

Up for grabs at the moment is this excellent riff on the classic UK rap label, Kold Sweat but given a Japanese twist.
As always they're always only available for a brief time so if you want one then Put Your Brain In Gear and go to this link: https://everpress.com/kold-sweat-japanese-version
You're Borderin' Insanity if you miss out of this and you'll be Living In The Land Of The Lost so go now and get it.

Sumthin For The Regulars

This is a little freebie but strictly for the Blog Crew - those of you who visit diligently even though the posts these days are sadly thin on the ground. Yes, something for those who don't frequent Facebook and instead insist on keeping that time-sucking banality out of their lives - though I can hardly talk.

Hip Hop: The Illustrated History of Break Dancing, Rap Music, and Graffiti was originally published way back in 1984 and never received the distribution it should have. Less sales meant that the book subsequently became sought-after and now goes for such astronomical prices as up to £350.

Thanks to the age of digital everyone can now have a chance to read it - well, just you select few, not that Facebook or Twitter rabble, yeah?

PDF version
https://www.mediafire.com/file/a9wmmo0sxfc7qgw/SH_HH.pdf

Epub Version
http://www.mediafire.com/file/88b6mwfkr9dupnb/Hip_Hop.epub