Warming up for GZA Last Night

Stig and I warmed up for the GZA last night. In stark contrast to the almost completely apathetic crowd at the Murs gig at the Jazz Cafe last week, the crowd were far more involved and I personally think we smashed it. I particularly enjoyed screaming 'fuck the royal wedding' on the mic, which might have got the biggest cheer of the night.



GZA himself smashed the show, but as is usually the case, proved himself to be a complete and utter miserable bastard afterwards. To be fair, I was shitfaced drunk and obviously cock blocking him (for hitting on MY girlfriend), plus he's pushing 50, but I still think that when a life long fan who is also your support act tries to give you a little love you should reciprocate, even if its fake, rather than just be a grumpy prick about it. Oh well.

Pour Out Some Liquor

RIP Guru (July 17, 1961 – April 19, 2010)

Can't believe it's been a year already. RIP.

ENLISH INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS

Some recent interviews/reviews that i've done in anticipation of the AA single dropping 23/04/2011.



KNOWLEDGE MAGAZINE

UK ALL DAY

BLACK BUDGET ENTERTAINMENT

HONOUR AMONGST THIEVES (TDK Chronicles)

'Home Dubbing.... The Death Of The Music Industry"

A small sample from the Pirahna Tank™



Back in the day, when I first really got into Hip Hop in around '93, there were sooooooo many good albums coming out. So many, in fact, that not one person could possibly afford to buy them all. Luckily, I had 3 or 4 like minded friends, and so we shared the burden of paying £14.99 per album between us, unless something was particularly necessary (i.e. all of the Wu Tang LPs in my case). Once one of us had purchased a particular CD, we would either take a bag full of TDKs home with us or lend out the CD to each person at a time so everyone could get a dub.

In my case, however, a dubbed tape was never going to be as good as the full package with all of the artwork, so I always endeavoured to make the most of my dubbed TDK, usually involving a pencil, some tracing paper and a red ink pen. Observe; I really was/am this geeky with my Hip Hop.



Plenty more where that came from and all.

Deezy's Saturday Jam #13

CLASSIC.



Off to Brighton for the weekend but may find time to drop you a lil suttin in a bit.

Thats What Eye See #12 - Spike Lee's Bin

Great film. Great bin.



As an added bonus, here's the classic scene where Buggin Out gets his new Jordan 4's fucked up by Larry Bird.

Thats What Eye See #11 - GUERILLA MARKETING

Team Hate Supporting Murs @ The Jazz Cafe TONIGHT

Come on down. Stig Of The Dump & I will be destroying the stage before Murs has a chance to hop on it.

Enlish Interview with Knowledge Magazine

Big dap goes to Aaron Jackson. For the full interview click HERE



You're close to dropping your Rap Ain't Real, My Life Is Real LP, tell us a bit more about that project...

The project will be made available as a bonus download upon purchase of the Messed Up / Arrogance single on April 23rd. Really it's just a precursor to my main LP, Cold Lazarus, that will be dropping in the near future.

Rap Ain't Real... is a collection of songs written and recorded during the last year or so that I will be making available for free to my dedicated followers upon purchase of the single.

As anyone who knows me knows, I am a big fan of Sean Price (hence getting him on the single) and have been since the first Heltah Skeltah LP dropped in the mid 90s. Rap Ain't Real, My Life Is Real is actually a Sean P lyric, where he continues on to say 'Rap ain't real, my life is real... If you talk about my life, fuck around and get killed'.

I personally found this hilarious as Sean P has said in numerous interviews that he may rap about shooting / murdering people etc, but in reality he is a grown man with a family to look after. However, he is also insinuating that by stepping over the boundary between rap and real life you may be causing a major problem for yourself (he obviously isn't all talk).

I essentially used that line as a green light to include a number of tracks where I go a bit OTT in my lyrics with regards to subject matter (but not too far, of course), but also offset those tracks with ones that are entirely truthful and personal to me on certain levels.

I also used the line to name my blog, where I not only write about my exploits as a rapper including anecdotes, stories, etc from my 'career' but also simply write about day to day things such as heavy weekends, bizarre dreams, good meals, etc. A lot of people seem to think that by being a rapper you're supposed to live a certain lifestyle, where in 99.9% of the cases out there worldwide it's simply not the truth.

I tell stories and home truths through rap and writing, but I'm also quick to poke fun at myself and not take myself too seriously at the same time, although when it comes to my love for the music, I am 110% serious. I just enjoy exploring both sides of the coin and it gives the listener / reader a little more insight into my persona.

For the full interview click HERE

Thats What Eye See #11 - GOOD HOOD LOVE

On a sign at the miniature skatepark in the tiny Cornish village I still call home. See? I'm not posh at all. Im from the 'hood'.



Peep this. Summer thuggin, had me a blast *guns pop*