A Love Letter to the Golden Age of UK Hip Hop

There was no time like it.

Task Force presents Louis Slipperz — £10 bag: Volume One

I was first properly introduced to UK hip hop when I was 15. It was 2002 and, through the haze of skunk and tobacco, my friends and I sat boxed in my pokey room, mesmerised by the video playing on the tiny T.V. It was a compilation of freestyles, most of which were performed in the Dark N Cold Clothing store. The grainy recordings of people…