So Solid Crew
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Report and Interview by Ben Thompson, ES, November 2000
WITH MEMBERSHIP currently standing at twenty plus, Battersea's upsurgent underground garage crew So Solid seem to be trying to overwhelm the opposition by sheer weight ...
Report and Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, October 2001
SIFTING THROUGH a pile of So Solid Crew fanmail might be a disturbing experience for anyone worried about the state of the nation's spelling, but ...
Ghetto Blasters: So Solid Crew
Profile and Interview by Andrew Smith, The Observer, 25 November 2001
SHOTS RANG OUT and a man collapsed in a heap near the dance floor. Another lay slumped, bleeding profusely, in a doorway near the toilet. ...
Letter from London, January 2002
Overview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, January 2002
WHILE, SINCE The Beatles, we British music fans have often affected insouciant confidence in the superiority of our taste over the rest of the world's ...
So Solid Crew: They Don't Know (Independiente/Relentless)****
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, January 2002
Distinctive debut from UKG crew with colourful personal lives ...
Profile and Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, August 2002
IN THE TOP floor of the London bus that is taking me to interview fast-talking UK garage heartthrob MC Romeo, an effervescent group of black ...
Profile by Pete Paphides, The Guardian, 5 October 2002
They raced from zero to inner-city heroes in one summer, then stalled in scandal. But don't write off So Solid – there's a serious business ...
The Streets: The British Can't Rap, Haven't You Heard?
Overview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 20 October 2002
THE BRITISH have always had a flair for taking black American music, giving it a twist and then exporting it back, stylishly repackaged. Blues, R&B, ...
Why hip-hop must take its share of blame for spread of violence among teenagers
Comment by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 6 January 2003
DOES HIP-HOP glamorise gun culture? It depends who you ask. Guns have been part of the baggage of hip-hop since 1988, when Los Angeles's NWA ...
So Solid Crew: Urbane Warriors
Interview by Angus Batey, The Times, 19 September 2003
So Solid Crew are back to give us hip-hop with a social conscience, says Angus Batey ...
Report and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, November 2004
Dizzee Rascal is the first artist to score two five-star MOJO reviews with successive albums. Yet Britain's freshest music star is only the most visible ...
So Solid Crew: 'What We're Doing Is Bigger Than Music'
Interview by Angus Batey, The Guardian, 14 January 2010
After a dramatic rise and a messy, destructive fall, So Solid are back. This time they intend to keep the tunes – and the money ...
see also MC Romeo
see also Lisa Maffia
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