NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Hype Williams on 18 July 2017. Hype Williams has been played over 220 times on NTS, first on 7 January 2013. Hype Williams's music has been featured on 198 episodes.

Hype Williams, comprised of Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland, is named after the film maker responsible for Belly. Starring rappers Nas and DMX, it was a hyper-stylised, nihilistic 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…