The Blues

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Let me explain why there’s a song on my new EP with Drunk Pedestrians about the blues!  I’ve been studying for the wayback machine.  Basically I’ve been writing the lyrics for this up and coming EP about Time Travel, ‘Marvelous Adventures of the Wayback Machine’ and it’s been like a constant history lesson.  Not that I’m complaining!  Continue reading→

Back to the Future Day

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It was ‘Back to the Future’ Day 2 days ago, I thought I’d bang on about it even more as I’ve always been obsessed with the concept of Time Travel ever since I was a pup.  The ‘Back to the Future’ trilogy are some of my favourite films ever!Continue reading→

Vinyl Digging VS E-Digging

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There appears to be a debate over vinyl digging VS e-digging in this day and age.

For those that aren’t Hip Hop producers or producers in general ‘digging’ basically means finding records to sample to make your own beats as the majority of Hip Hop is based on sampling other records.  ‘Vinyl Digging’ has been the more ‘traditional’ way in which many producers have chosen to sample records.  In other words they will dig for samplable breaks through old vinyl records and use the records there.Continue reading→

Kool G Rap VS Celsius

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So I did a remix Kool G Rap VS Celsius.  Basically combining one of my all time favourite rappers Kool G Rap with one of my favourite dance tracks in recent years, ‘Incoming’ by Celsius.  I took Kool G Rap’s a capella from the track ‘Ill Street Blues’ and put it over the top of the ‘Incoming’ track.  The result works rather well in my opinion (but then I would say that).  It really changes the dynamic to the G Rap’s lyrics compared to how they fit on the original ‘Ill Street Blues’ beat.Continue reading→

Funky DJ Mix

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I put together a funky DJ Mix of some of my favourite music.  When I’m not rapping and making beats I also DJ, hence my bio ‘Rapper, Producer AND DJ’…. Other than the numerous DJ gigs I do, I rarely get to show off my DJ skills so I thought I’d treat you to a DJ Mix I put together featuring a lot of my favourite music. It’s not just in the realm of Rap and Hip Hop that you might know me for. There’s also a fine mix upbeat Funk, Soul, House and Garage.  I like to mix genres when I DJ as there’s such a huge amount of insight you can gain from listening to numerous forms of music even if you’re strictly a rapper.Continue reading→

Dealing with Criticism

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I want to talk about dealing with criticism.  Criticism is something you’re inevitably going to go through whatever you do.  Especially if you actually stand for something.   It’s important to remember it’s ok to royally fuck up sometimes especially when you have good intentions behind those actions.  These embarrassing moments are often the times you learn the most and the quickest.  Everyone stumbles.  The people that never succeed are the people that didn’t fail enough.  All that being said, sometimes you can do everything right and with the best of intentions and still receive staunch criticism from people.Continue reading→

Fire in the Booth Cypher?

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As many Rap fans in the UK will be aware there was a recent Fire in the Booth Cypher (the first ever in fact) featured on Charlie Sloth’s BBC Radio 1 Rap Show.

It featured some of the UK’s most popular rappers today and no doubt they went in!    Nonetheless it called into question what a real ‘cypher’ is.  As was expressed in this GRM Daily post which shows an interesting twitter discussion between Swiss of So Solid Crew and Charlie Sloth himself.  In Swiss’ opinion in a ‘real cypher’ rappers don’t know what beat they’re going to be rhyming to.  Many would argue a step further and say that rappers shouldn’t even know what their rhymes are going to be either and should in fact be all off the top.

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