Llwybr Llaethog

Llwybr Llaethog

Last updated: 30 July 2009

The seminal anti-establishment North Walian production outfit that invented Welsh-language hip-hop.

Read about Llwybr Llaethog on BBC Cymru (Welsh language)

On holiday in New York in 1984, a young Welshman named John Griffiths witnessed the explosion of hip-hop culture first hand and returned to his home town - the poverty-stricken mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog - with the seed of an idea germinating in his mind.

Read the full Llwybr Llaethog biography.


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