Slum Village FT Blue Lab Beats & Friends

Slum Village is a hip hop group from Detroit, presented in London with Blue Lab Beats and friends at Blue Note London. The concert brings together two acts from the hip hop and production scene.

Slum Village is a hip hop group formed in Detroit in the mid-1990s. Its founding members included the producer J Dilla, whose beats shaped the group's sound and influenced many later producers. Their debut album, Fantastic, Vol. 2, appeared in 2000 and remains the record most often cited from their early work. The group's sound draws on soul sampling and loose, head-nodding grooves rooted in Detroit's hip hop tradition.

This London date is billed as Slum Village featuring Blue Lab Beats and friends, placing the group alongside Blue Lab Beats, a London-based production project. The billing suggests a night built around collaboration between the two acts rather than a solo set by one.

Blue Note London is a concert venue on Saint Martin's Lane in the West End. The programme is aimed at listeners who follow hip hop, neo-soul and jazz-inflected production, and at those interested in the Detroit lineage of the group.