Monday was an overwhelming day, after a slap up meal consisting of 20 popadoms, 3 onion bhajjees, a tikamasala curry, a lamb bhoona and a garlic nan courtesy of Nike (yep… more on that situation as it unfolds), followed by a ‘medium to aite’ Jumpoff (next months gona be big… trus) i saw our girl Simmy reading the latest issue of Hip Hop Connection that was given away in the goodie bags. So i stole it from her and flicked through…

Firstofall: Hip Hop Connection is the first and longest running Hip Hop publication in the world. It came out before Vibe, The Source and way before RWD. My personal design hustle, but more importantly The Ugly Kids Clubs current cultural infleunce is allover the issue… we interview Marc Ecko for RWD the month before (scroll down for that), and The Ugly Kids Club alongside the many business, organisations, companies and music artists that we currently or recently do work with are pretty much on every other page, front to back of this issue.

Its fitting that the title of this issue is called ‘UK StandTall’. Let me page by page break it down for you… (more…)