STEP BROTHERS (ALCHEMIST & EVIDENCE): Lord Steppington (2013)

Lord Steppington is the long-threatened album drop on Rhymesayers from the Step Brothers team of sometime Whooligan, Alchemist and sometime Dilated person, Evidence. The fourteen tracker features a veritable family gathering of underground hip-hop guests (Domo Genesis, Styles P, Action Bronson, Roc Marciano, Fashawn, Rakaa Iriscience, Blu and Oh No) which verges on the epic. And yet myriad guests maketh not a party it seems – not that the paranoid beats and complex …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

STEP BROTHERS (Alchemist & Evidence): Step Masters (2013) + video

Alchemist and Evidence are Step Brothers and the video to slo-mo-stoner-scratch-rap cut Step Masters (off their debut forthcoming Rhymesayers LP release Lord Steppington, due January) finds them giving free reign to their ‘sibling’ rivalry in a series of competitions. Evidence is the man, it seems, when it comes to such tasks as speed-chugging beer, bowling strikes, Jenga, scoring baskets, tossing an egg, and the ‘ice hands dip’ while Alchemist excels at such masculine challenges as – …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RHYMESAYERS: London Tour Stories video (2011)

RHYMESAYERS: London Tour Stories video (2011)
In which various artists on the Carhartt/ Rhymesayers tour relate why they love the Big Smoke. Or not. Slug found the bacon undercooked, Budo informs us that he’s half English and like everyone this side of the Atlantic he already drinks tea with pinkie raised and salutes the Queen while Evidence hates Heathrow but thinks the weed is pretty good. Thus it is Brother Ali alone, who sidesteps the lumbering embrace of cliché with (ironically) a tale of some drunken bumblefuck falling into the bowels of the city …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

EVIDENCE: ‘You’ (prod. DJ Premier) (2011) video

EVIDENCE: You (Prod. DJ Premier) (2011) video
Hot on the tail of the Fashawn featuring Same Folks comes another video from Dilated Peoples emcee/ producer Evidence. You (for such is the track’s name) features a Premo beat that DJ Premier himself premiered on his radio show last week. Try saying that when you’re pissed. Actually for a Premo beat it’s a dead ringer for a Platform/ Expansion Team-era Dilated beat.…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

EVIDENCE: Cats & Dogs (2011) LP details + preview mix free download + ‘Same Folks’ feat. Fashawn video

EVIDENCE: Cats & Dogs (2011) LP details + preview mix free download + ‘Same Folks’ feat. Fashawn video
Once upon a time in hip-hop a group called Dilated Peoples worked the angles to popular underground acclaim. This would be back when record shops were so thick with manboys wearing empty Eastpak rucksacks that it almost made you want to stop buying vinyl and go home and illegally download mp3s. By the time Eastpak rucksack sales had past their peak, Dilated’s star had begun to wane and I had trouble finding a record shop …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

RHYMESAYERS PRESENT: The Rhymesayers European Tour – Atmosphere/ Brother Ali/ Evidence (of Dilated Peoples) / Blueprint/ Grieves & Budo (2011)

RHYMESAYERS PRESENT: The Rhymesayers European Tour – Atmosphere/ Brother Ali/ Evidence (of Dilated Peoples) / Blueprint/ Grieves & Budo (2011)
Rhymesayers? They’re not law obeyers they’re non-stop rhythm rock poetry sayers and they’ll be proving it by invading Europe this November starting in London. Actually they probably are law obeyers, that bit just sounded good. Yes, this autumn is all about emo-hoppers Atmosphere and various homies from the underground behemoth of a label that Atmosphere founded: Brother Ali, Evidence, Blueprint and Grieves and Budo. Blimey - I’d go just to see Brother Ali whose last album Us was MB’s top hip-hop album of 2009 but…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

EVIDENCE – ‘To Be Continued…’ video + ‘Cats & Dogs’ Lp update

EVIDENCE – ‘To Be Continued…’ video + ‘Cats & Dogs’ Lp update
Rapper/ producer Evidence of Dilated Peoples has been keeping himself busy recently by signing up to Rhymesayers for his forthcoming solo LP Cats & Dogs, and you can cop the – er – evidence of his hard work in the shape of the video for his first single To Be Continued below. Mind you, I say ‘hard work’, but the man appears to have interpreted this as ‘recite one of my rhymes whilst…WATCH VIDE./ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM

EVIDENCE (feat Phonte, Blu and Will I Am) – For Whom The Bell Tolls – 2008 – Single review

EVIDENCE (feat Phonte, Blu and Will I Am) – For Whom The Bell Tolls – 2008 – Single review
RATING: 1/5
No man is an island but I wished I was fucking on one when I heard this miserable dirge. This is the musical equivalent of an aging Bassett Hound resting its drooling jowls on paws that are 2 two days away from a fatal injection …LISTEN/ READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM