History

Welcome to the wonderful world of Sin Nombre records. Who, you may be asking, is actually behind Sin Nombre and what the hell does it mean? (it's a safe bet that you probably aren't asking this, but we'll tell you anyway).

After years of being a simple rap fan boy and sometime Hip-Hop Connection & Undercover contributor, Ben P has finally managed to get off his ever increasingly fat ass and start the label he's been blabbering on about for years. Way back when, a young Ben actually had dreams of becoming a rapper himself. He got to work on writing dope verses on any bit of paper he could find (he actually did have a writing pad but thought that you just weren't a cool writer if you didn't jot things down on napkins, flyers or crumpled up Kleenex). With the rhymes down on paper, all he needed to do was master his flow. Sadly, this never happened. After a year or so of standing in front of the mirror with a Lynx can for a mic, Ben finally realised that not only was he shit at rapping, he also looked an absolute twat. In fact, he was so bad that alongside him, Vanilla Ice seemed like an emcee of Rakim-esque proportions. So back to the drawing board he went. This time he tried his hand at making beats. After all, he thought, its pharrell, Kanye, Just and Timbo who make all the money these days. This proved rather more fruitful and some of the boy's beats were actually kind of nice. Granted, no one wanted to rap over them but they sounded ok all the same.

He swiftly began calling himself a 'producer' in public and was pretty content to revel in this new found sense of pretentiousness, even if it was only a half truth at best. But he was still itching to get more actively involved with the scene (read: actually make some god damn money from it) and still wasn't happy. It was while watching endless repeats of MTV Cribs that he finally had one of those Eureka moments and knew what his next move would be. Who makes all the really big cheese in this here game called rap? The label bosses, that's who. So the money hungry young man went to work, keeping the hope alive that one day he too could have a living room full of tasteful self portraits like Master P or a million pounds worth of metal teeth in his mouth like Trick Daddy. It was on that day that the label was born.

The only thing needed was a name. It was decided it had to be something catchy but also fairly hip-hop. His first choices of 'Bitches 4 Life Music' and 'Ghetto Criminalz Entertainment' were ditched when focus groups deemed them to be way too gangster. Instead, Ben decided to rape and pillage his family heritage by cashing in on the fact that he is half Spanish (the good half). He scoured the vast plains of the passion filled country (we're talking about Spain here, not old Blighty) to find an appropriate moniker. The winning phrase was Sin Nombre, Spanish for nameless. It seemed like a pretty cool name at the time and still kind of does now.

So there you have it. A brief history of a label that is hoping to have a bright future. Specialising in bringing forth the cream of UK rap talent, Sin Nombre is destined to be the name on everybody's lips in the next few years. You heard it here first. Peace.

El Hombre Sin Nombre aka The Honcho With The Poncho