Southampton musicians wow the crowd with a History of Hip Hop event for schools

Local hip hop artists came together to lay out an history of hip hop in an interactive schools concert at MAST Mayflower Theatre on 17th January to an audience of 300 primary and secondary age students.  

Vocalist ShannonB, Rapper & Freestyler TenChoo, Producer Karan Master, DJ SteveO and musician Jono laid out the foundations of Hip Hop from it’s roots in Jamaican Toasting right up to Trap, Drill and Road Rap in the present day.  

Through interactive songs, live performances and a memorable freestyle the audience learned about DJing, sampling, mixing, live track creation and heard live versions of songs by Stormzy, Craig David, Lauren Hill and even a local young rapper Tommy who gave his first ever live performance.

Year 5 Teacher:

“The local artists really made it a special experience for the children involved and they were absolutely buzzing about it afterwards.  We have never been to a schools' event quite like it before!”

Teacher from St Deny’s Primary:

“Thank you for the awesome hip hop workshop at MAST this morning.  Pure class - informative, entertaining, engaging, inspiring.  My class from St Denys loved it and so did I, we were all buzzing all afternoon.”

Nia Collins:

“We are so lucky in Southampton to have such a wealth of homegrown talent in the UK’s hip hop scene and to be able to link those artists and industry professionals up with schools has been brilliant.  Redbridge Secondary students were particularly excited to see ShannonB, who until not long ago was a student there herself for example!  Then to also be able to give an opportunity to Tommy to start his journey following in their footsteps too was great”