NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Hype Williams on 18 July 2017. Hype Williams has been played over 230 times on NTS, first on 7 January 2013. Hype Williams's music has been featured on 212 episodes.

Hype Williams, comprised of Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland, is named after the film maker responsible for Belly. Starring rappers Nas and DMX, it was a hyper-stylised, Nihilist mess and this London duo borrow its finer traits, its strut and loathing. From beneath a medicated haze they lace twanging Americana with seams of swaggering dread. They are Bobby Peru made music.

The band's sound consists of…