The Making of Premonitions An Interview with Evil Ed Words by Postie Spines on the Shelves The time has come to get my Wax Poetics on and get deep behind the history of what was a massively important record in the development of my (and many other heads of my age) love affair with UK Hip Hop.
the next time I had enough cash to catch the train to London and do the rounds at Deal Real and Mr Bongo. Some Old School heads might dismiss this era as occurring after the magic had passed but
It was 1999, I was 18, at college, permanently plugged into my Walkman and trying to find out as much as I could about the UK Hip Hop scene. I would read HHC every month and scour the reviews section to figure out which UK releases I would buy
“It became the record we all used as the example to non-believers that UK hip hop could be poetry”
for those of us that were only just starting to pay our dues I can assure you it felt pretty magical then.
To say that Premonitions blew me and my mates away was an understatement. It became the record we all used as the example to non-believers that UK hip hop could be poetry. It was one of those records that felt special because it was so fucking good but so few people seemed to have heard of it – those who had it were part of a privileged club – and to say we rinsed it at our two-turntables-and-and-a-stack-of-wax music-discovery nights would be an understatement.