Up In Your Basement Records is proud to announce the release of Off The Charts, the new EP from Milwaukee emcee Taiyamo Denku, now streaming on all major digital platforms. This release marks Denku’s official signing with Up In Your Basement Records, continuing UIYB’s...
I recently attended RC Tha Hazards memorial hip hop show put on by Tyrow James in New Westminster on December 29th 2023. We celebrated a friend, and local emcee that I don't think can really easily be summarized in a short video or paragraph. He had so many people he...
Between the years 2004 and 2010 I was involved in setting up and promoting over 300 Hip Hop shows throughout Vancouver, New Westminster, Surrey, Langley, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Burnaby, Abbotsford, Mission, Chilliwack, Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton, and various other...
The truth is, I was Lenny Diko from the age of 19 to about 26 or 27. I starting making music in the latter days of high school (around 1999/2000) and continued until about 2008 or so before I officially hung up the microphone. I then went through some major shifts in...
When Luckyiam.PSC from the Living Legends crew came up to perform at a couple UIYB shows in Vancouver in 2005, he recorded a track with Aria Silenced alongside Vancouver's The Phonograff who also produced the record.
While touring in Austria in 2007, Lex and Lenny Diko (Violative Cause) recorded a track with Digga Mindz and Def Ill called "Elephantz". listen here: