Starting off as a Graffiti mag about a decade ago, Wordplay has recently broadened its horizon, and started to cover the music side of the UK hiphop scene. The most recent issueprovided me with some excellent entertainment on a recent long flight out to the other side of the world and back. Reminds me of reading Big Daddy cover to cover over and over again back in the day.
Not only is the mag itself high quality, with varied enough content to appeal to both the hardcore heads and casual observers alike, but if you’re quick enough to snap up a copy of the recent issue (from Fopp, or Dogfish, and possibly other cool places too) , you’ll find it includes a wicked mix CD from Sammy B-Side, expect to see a few posts in the future featuring some of the standout tracks, in my opinion…
The issue, complete with free CD, is available to buy here: http://wordplayshop.bigcartel.com/
(If you’re in the UK, you’ll get it delivered to your doorfor less than a your average pint at your local, for those overseas postage makes it a little more, but step the pint up to something like a Hoegaarden and the analogy still applies…)
For those of you who can’t get a physical copy, you can read it online here:
http://issuu.com/wordplaymagazine/docs/wordplay_9
