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Tim goes Empire building

Sep 10 2004

By Evening Gazette, Evening Chronicle

 

Radio One's champion of rap and all things hip-hop, Tim Westwood, comes to Teesside this week.

Widely regarded as one of the most influential figure in hip hop in Europe, Tim Westwood began his career as a DJ on pirate radio, LWR.

It wasn't long before he shifted his allegiance to Kiss FM during its pirate years.

From there he went to the Rap Show on Capital FM and joined Radio 1 in December 1994.

But he's also an active club DJ and last year held a regular Saturday night bash which pulled in over 3,500 and featured Hip Hop luminaries such as Funkmaster Flex, Busta Rhymes, Jay Z, Lil Kim, Mase, EPMD, K-Ci and Jojo, Gang Starr and the Jungle Brothers.

Forever a big hitter on the radio scene his shows landed him the Sony Best Specialist Radio Music Programme in 1990, 1991 and 1994 and he has been voted the Number One Rap DJ by the readers of Hip Hop Connection for the past ten years.

He plays the Empire on Wednesday and tickets are £10 each or £8 with NUS.

 

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