Around that time I started listening to grime and me and my friends would write raps and have fun clashes in the school yard (laughs). I gained a new found love for A Tribe Called Quest. That in itself made it easy when I wanted to discover more about it. They weren’t necessarily direct. ‘Old to the New’ is a sentimental journey through the culture that has started a new wave of artists – from graphic designers, painters, directors and dancers to electronic music producers.

I felt I needed to portray a certain image and at some point that just got tiresome for me and I started to look for music that didn’t have to “Exactly. You’ll see Migos next to Rakim and then you’ll see Rakim next to Sean Kingston. At the same time, I feel like every other musical genre is allowed to exist within its sub-genres, so you have psych-rock, you have prog rock, you have metal, death metal, indie rock. The old to the new The new to the old The old to the new The new to the old The old to the new The new to the old The old to the new The new to the old Instead, they roar forward, ablaze with unruly life. If you like Old to the New, you may also like:



I also want to break down the barriers and perceptions that have been created by institutions to market specific sounds and attach them to specific places. Old To The New Q&A – Otis Mensah Posted on June 21, 2020 | Leave a comment Bringing the artistic worlds of Hip-Hop, spoken-word and poetry together in his music, Sheffield’s Otis Mensah is an individual on a mission, with the 24-year-old determined to blur boundaries, challenge categorisation and cross cultural divides via his unique and imaginative use of language. I was able to bend language a little bit more.”“I think it all began with Hip-Hop. So it was a means to celebrate Sheffield and also I think break down the barriers of tradition that had been put in place. I find myself thinking ‘What are the preconceived ideas that are informing your decision to bunch all these artists together?’ I’m not opposed to labels entirely. So sometime in 2021. My experience of being away from home had included me having a strong social circle for the first time, being around like-minded people, being able to connect to artists.

I think I tend to walk through life romantacizing certain moments that have happened. Like, my dad didn’t hand me the mic when I was a kid or anything like that. It was at that point that I started to see the disaparity between the practical impact that Hip-Hop was having on my life and the impact that these novels I was reading in school were having. It was helpful to me on an individual level because I was getting my problems out, and then it’s helpful to the outside world because we’re unified by the sharing. To me it’s so inspiring. So the first single from #OtisMensahExists is out on May 26th (Rough, rugged and raw flavour from the Buze Bruvaz member’s sonic martial arts adventure “Perverted & Drunken” produced entirely by Lord Beatjitzu.Boisterous rhymes from the Baltimore-based artist on this cut lifted from the Dirt Platoon / Ill Conscious / Guy Grams project “Parimore”.Latest track to be lifted from Ipswich lyricist Rye Shabby’s new Forrest Moon-produced EP “Esta”.Strong Island’s Jigg$ punishes Shining 88’s pounding drums with some heavy-duty bars on this track lifted from his “Jigganometry” album.Taken from the album “Miles: From An Interlude Called Life”.The ever-consistent Pitch 92 flexes his production muscle on this limited edition vinyl release, supplying London’s Lord Apex with a potent blend of dramatic strings, thumping beats and deft cuts from Jazz T.Piano-laced rawness from the LA-based emcee’s Twelvebit-produced project “Bear Handz 4: Dark Side Of The Mountain”.NY emcee Saigon has always delivered lyrical food for thought and here he returns with a powerful message tackling gun violence off his forthcoming album “777: The Resurrection”.Self-produced, punchline-heavy street science from the Rochester, NY representative’s new “6 Shot” EP.The London lyricist drops typically punchy bars over MF Doom’s “Rhymes Like Dimes” instrumental off the forthcoming “Verse Murder Vol. But in regards to the London scene, I think it’s incredible, especially everything that’s happening in terms of the resurgence of jazz. I think being so engaged with it as an artform, and seeing how it had impacted my life and how I all of a sudden felt this surge of unification, in many ways I was able to build my identity around Hip-Hop.

I couldn’t see myself represented in those novels, you know. I was trying to put out as much music as I could. So it’s more a question of institions who always feel the lazy need to focus on one specific thing, one specific identity and one specific place. Knowing that I found that power from Hip-Hop, it was only when I became maybe a bit more politically savvy or a little more inclined towards philosophical contemplation, I started to see that Hip-Hop and rap as an artform wasn’t being accredited as a viable and intellectual means of art and people weren’t seeing it as a true form of poetry.

That was the beginning of a shift in the way that I saw art.

So the echo chamber is more about how companies market people. I think at some point I drifted away from writing because it was fun. So hopefully through the #OtisMensahExists campaign he will find out. I have this love for bodies of work and full conceptual pieces of art. Step 3: In the next page on your old …