Earlier this year, London MC and producer Iron Braydz released his Verbal sWARdz EP. Critically acclaimed by international media, the EP featured several of his fellow Triple Darkness members together with Prince Po, Sean Price, Kyza and Skriblah
He has spent the rest of the year working on a new full length album scheduled for release in 2015, and will be dropping into London’s Westside FM station this Thursday 13th November on the I Am Hip Hop Magazine’s radio show from 11pm UK GMT (6pm EST / 3pm PST)
Expect to hear an exclusive freestyle as part of the interview which you can catch live online at www.thisiswestside.com or on 89.6Fm in the Acton area.
New York’s Double A.B. spent some time living in north London’s Tottenham.
As the news of the much publicized London riots of August 2011 spread globally, Double A.B. wrote the track London Calling reflecting on what he could see happening in his old neighbourhood. He got together with his old associate & fellow New Yorker Dub Sonata who produced the Clash sampled beat and then approached the UK’s highly rated MC Iron Braydz to feature.
Braydz goes in hard on the track as expected with plaudits for his “Devil May Cry” album last year still reverberating around UK hiphop
Double A.B. and Dub Sonata are currently working on a new album while Iron Braydz has new projects lined up for 2012 with some heavy hittin international names on board
The video was filmed in New York by Last Call Steeve and in London by Despa of Stay Fresh in September this year, edited & produced by Dirty Media London.
Over 3 days, 14th, 15th & 16th September, we arranged 5 video shoots with UK artists linked to future releases from Stateside artists Copywrite & Double AB.
On the first day, we were with Mystro, Genesis Elijah and Iron Braydz in Ladbroke Grove to film 3 of these. Mystro appears on Copywrite’s track Pick Up Stix, also featuring Sean Price, Iron Braydz appears on a track from Double AB “London’s Calling”, and all 3 appear on a new posse cut with Copywrite. Copywrite’s album “God Save The King” is due for release in the first quarter of 2012.
A number of media also dropped by to check out what was happening, including Soulculture, The Grime Report, BSomebody TV, Niji Magazine, Code Emphasis, Lime, and The Hip Hop Chronicle. Mystro, Gen & Braydz gave an impromptu “Big Man Ting” interview for The Hip Hop Chronicle (see below)
Pics from day 1
MYSTRO – PICK UP STIX
Mystro, Genesis Elijah & Iron Braydz
The next day we were in Lewisham, South London linkin up with Dru Blu (AKA Don Strapzy) to film a sequence for the track God Save The King. Good fellas and Dru been gettin a lot of exposure recently in the specialist UK media
On the final day we were over at Hammersmith to meet up with Context MC who had already appeared on a remix for Copywrite’s labelmate Vast Aire, on the track “Cannon on Samus”. The sequence was shot for a track “Ghost in the Machine” down at the Thames. Special mention to the woman who told us she could “arrange” for a variety of birds to appear in the video & offered a feather as proof. You have a sponsorship deal with Thunderbird in the making there sweetheart…..!
The full versions of these videos are now due to be edited and the results will be seen in the near future. Mention also to John at Dirty Media and Despa at Stay Fresh on the video duties
Follow all these guys on twitter @Mystrogen @GenesisElijah @Braydz @DonDruBlu @ContextMC
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BIG MAN TING ft Mystro, Genesis Elijah & Iron Braydz filmed by The Hip Hop Chronicle
