Skill Street Entertainment

Skill Street Entertainment (commonly abbreviated SSE) was a Finnish independent record label focused on hip hop music. It was founded in 2009 by the rapper and producer LX-Beats, also known as Rekami. Operating from Finland, the label built a small but coherent roster of Finnish-language hip hop artists and released a sequence of albums and EPs between 2009 and 2011. The label's catalogue included releases by LX-Beats himself, as well as by artists such as Lavis, Are, Kriso, Hannes H., Rekami, Mikrofonistit, Half Past Never Band, Altis and Eino Antiwäkki. Its releases carried catalogue numbers beginning with the SSE prefix, for example SSE001 through SSE009, alongside a separate LXBCD series for LX-Beats material. Notable titles included Lavis's "Ookkonä huudeilt?!" (2009), Are's "Jaalan elämää" (2010), Kriso's "Nappo EP" (2010), Mikrofonistit's "Raakavedos" (2011), Half Past Never Band's "Cubicle Coma" (2011), Altis's "Ottaa päähän" (2011), Eino Antiwäkki's "Rotsit auki" (2011) and Rekami's "Nollabudjetti" (2011). Skill Street Entertainment ran into financial difficulty and filed for bankruptcy in early 2012, after which the company ceased operations. As a result, its active life as a label spanned only about three years. The label is remembered as part of the Finnish underground hip hop scene of the late 2000s and early 2010s, and it is sometimes mentioned alongside other Finnish hip hop labels such as KPC Records.

Skill Street Entertainment (SSE) was founded in 2009 by the Finnish rapper and producer LX-Beats, also known as Rekami. The label was dedicated to hip hop music and operated from Finland. Its first releases appeared in 2009, including LX-Beats's "Poor Man's Luxury" (catalogue LXBCD01) and Lavis's "Ookkonä huudeilt?!" (SSE001). Through 2010 and 2011 the label issued a steady stream of albums and EPs. In 2010 it released Are's "Jaalan elämää" (SSE002), Kriso's "Nappo EP" (SSE003), Hannes H.'s "Ei turhia paineita" (SSE004) and Rekami's "Iskuja vyön alle" (SSER001). In 2011 the catalogue continued with Mikrofonistit's "Raakavedos" (SSE005), Half Past Never Band's "Cubicle Coma" (SSE006), Altis's "Ottaa päähän" (SSE007), Eino Antiwäkki's "Rotsit auki" (SSE008) and Rekami's "Nollabudjetti" (SSE009). The label's roster included Altis, Are, Eino Antiwäkki, Hannes Hauska, Half Past Never Band, Jussi Kuoma, Kriso, Lavis, Mikrofonistit and Rekami. Skill Street Entertainment ran into financial trouble and went bankrupt in early 2012, after which it ceased operations. Its active existence as a label thus lasted only about three years. It is sometimes associated with the Finnish hip hop label KPC Records in related listings.

• 2012

  Label files for bankruptcy and ceases operations.

• 2011

  Releases by Mikrofonistit, Half Past Never Band, Altis, Eino Antiwäkki and Rekami.

• 2010

  Releases by Are, Kriso, Hannes H. and Rekami.

• 2009

  Skill Street Entertainment founded by LX-Beats/Rekami.

• 2009

  First releases: LX-Beats's "Poor Man's Luxury" (LXBCD01) and Lavis's "Ookkonä huudeilt?!" (SSE001).

Independent Finnish hip hop record label

Product categories. hip hop albums · EPs · music recordings

1. 1Skill Street Entertainment – Wikidatawikidata.org
2. 2Skill Street Entertainment – Finnish Wikipediafi.wikipedia.org