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DJSir-Vere

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Phil Bell is a hip hop artist (as DJ Sir-Vere), music TV presenter, and editor of iconic magazine Rip It Up. He co-founded and ran the Aotearoa Hip Hop Summit for three years. After hosting Max TV show The True School with DJ DLT in 1996, Sir-Vere and DLT were invited to host MTV's Wrekognise. Sir-Vere went on to C4's Holla Hour. His ongoing hip hop compilations Major Flavours have been hits on both sides of the Tasman.

Screenography

We Gon Ride
2003 As: Himself Music video
Holla Hour
2003 — 2006 Presenter Series
Marae - Mai FM
2002 Subject Television
Wrekognise
1997 — 1998 Presenter Series
The True School
1996 Presenter Television

“I just think that Rip It Up needs to be everything to everybody now, and that’s what we’re doing.”

— Phil Bell in 2009, after taking over as editor of Rip It Up magazine