Record Labels - Hip Hop

Shady Records

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Dented Records

Dented Records is a record label based in the UK, and best known as the home to critically acclaimed hip-hop act Foreign Beggars and Focused Few.

Dented Records record label was established in 2003 by Foreign Beggars as a vehicle to release their own material. Tommy Evans establish the name and the brand. Foreign Beggars soon released their 1st and 2nd single "Where Did the Sun Go" and "Seasons Beatings" featuring Task Force and their debut album "Asylum Speakers" featured prominent UK rappers and several international artists, and was quoted by DJ Magazine as the Best Unsung UK Hip Hop album of all time.

Signed to Coda Agency Artists, they tour extensively both nationally and internationally to promote their releases. Tours included UK, USA, Canada, certain Asian states and many many more.

Dented Artists have collaborated with huge worldwide artists to create their unique sounds, these include names such as Ja Rule, Plan B, Wu Tang Clan and Gorillaz. These are all enormous names not only in the hip hop industry, but in the music industry as a whole, and so this is representative of how far British hip hop has come in terms of popularity.

Foreign Beggars 2nd single 'Where Did the Sun Go"

 

This is another song by 'Foreign Beggars', the craftsmen of the 'Dented' Record label.

In this music video, as well as hitting genre conventions of appearing powerful, we can see that in this Uk Hip Hop video, they use a lot more humour and tend to portray a less serious persona in order to seem easily approachable by their audience as well as taking rapping seriously. I've chosen this track because the flow of it fits with my chosen track as it is really up beat and has a high tempo, although the message being conveyed is different. Also, I really like the way that lighting is used in this video, as it varies from black and white shots, to scenes with really bold and 'in your face' colours set on a dark background which highlights the artits and maikes the video visually stimulating.

 

I have posted this video because as well as it being produced by an artist under the Dented Records wing, it is exceptionally interesting for a very low budget video. It mainly consists of shots from London riots and TV. But what is interesting about this music video, is the way that signs are used from about half way in, and messages are given through short phrases on paper, which I think it expecially effective and helps to break the video up, enforcing it to be quite visually stimulating. I would like to use something along these lines in my music video, as I think it works well here.

This is interesting for a Uk Hip hop music video, as it is clearly low budget and performed by a member of Foreign Beggars again. There are several establishing shots of the city which I think are used well as they also pan, this is mixed in with shots of performance not only on the streets, but at a gig, which I think works really well, and so I would like to employ some of these techniques in my own video.