Break to the beat recently caught up with rapper/producer MC Killa Joul to discuss and document  his early involvement with local Hip Hop culture and his contributions to 90’s Hip Hop crews Justice Element and True Element. 

So to kick off the interview could you advise when you started rapping and how you got involved in the local Hip Hop culture?

I got into the Hip Hop scene when I started 6th form at Buckingham school in 1993, Kraze One was in my form at the time and I think we started speaking due to a shared love of Hip Hop music. He knew a lot more about it then me, was into the British scene that I didn’t even know existed really, and had a massive record collection (still has). I knew about the American stuff but he turned me on to artists like Gunshot, Hijack and The Criminal Minds. We started making demos with one turntable and using break beats from Simon Harris’s break beats and scratches records and a dodgy mic from Curry’s! Continue reading →