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High Focus Records

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the largest UK hip-hop label at the time. Unfortunately, the label collapsed later that year. As a result, Fliptrix turned to one of the only other hip-hop labels in the UK at that time, YNR. However the label's owner,
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has featured High Focus members The Four Owls, Dirty Dike and former label star Ocean Wisdom on his hip hop themed podcast,
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Verb T and producer Pitch 92 (who have two albums out together on High Focus) also recorded the theme tune for the
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and Leaf Dog, asked if he could put their albums out too - and it was from there High Focus Records began to grow.
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The label has released dozens of albums and projects since 2010. They have released one UK top 40 album,
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in recent years with Onoe Caponoe Strange U and Jam Baxter incorporating wider influences.
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Originally influenced by late 1990s and early 2000s British hip hop artists such as
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to release a song dedicated to their shared local South London football team
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record label founded by rapper Fliptrix in 2010, following the collapse of
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In 2008, Fliptrix was in the process of releasing his first album on
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High Focus artists have also been frequent collaborators with
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Index


Hip-hop
old school hip hop
boom bap
www.high-focus.com/home/
British hip-hop
Low Life Records
Low Life Records
Jehst
Jam Baxter
Jehst
Task Force
Skinnyman
boom bap
alternative hip hop
Ocean Wisdom
Warner Music
Verb T
Doc Brown
Crystal Palace FC
2016 FA Cup Final
Sky One
The Reluctant Landlord
Romesh Ranganathan
Rag'n'Bone Man
The Four Owls
Rag'n'Bone Man
Verb T
Chemo
"Is British Rap Finally Going to Have a Gay Hip Hop Scene?"

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