#UKBreakbeatHistory

Hail up #LondonPosse!

The first UK Hip Hop group to rap in their own accents. Until then groups had mimicked American artists but LP used Jamaican DJ styles combined with Cockney geezer personas and the new style was born.

Although must shout out Smiley Culture for the true Cockney Rasta style a few years earlier but that was much more on the Reggae tip.

#GangsterChronicals still holds up today.

https://www.invidious.epicsite.xyz/watch?v=IOOcUBwqFxI

@mxtthxw

ruthless rap assasins : pretty sure they didn't do the US accent thing ?
same era, and very uk centric.

@mxtthxw

also ...
i saw the tour that Big Audio Dynamite put on where they had 2 stages.

while one band was performing, the crew were setting up another stage,

and one of the acts was Rodney P.

no idea if it was London Posse as it was 1988!

but Rodney has talked about the tour over the years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_P

Rodney P - Wikipedia