Ahead of the release of his new EP “Verbal sWARdz” on 14th April, Iron Braydz gives one of his most in depth interviews to date to British online publication NIJI Magazine.
He speaks on his move from Nigeria to Kilburn in north London at a young age, the early influence of hip hop in his life and what inspired him to become an artist, his earliest live shows & hosting events for DJ Premier, Joell Ortiz and RZA, working with UK producers Lewis Parker and Chemo and Stateside artists Sean Price, DJ Ronin and Sav Killz, his growing support in Europe, becoming the newest member of Triple Darkness, his role in a new independent film “Night Bus” and the recording process in putting the new EP together
It’s a real insight into the history of one of the UK’s most highly regarded hip hop artists which you can read in full HERE
The new release is largely self produced, but includes features from Triple Darkness, Kyza, Skriblah, Sean Price and Organized Konfusion’s Prince Po
The track Fiery Red featuring Sean Price was originally released to the internet a couple of years ago. Check it out
It’s set to be one of the hottest UK hip hop releases in the first half of 2014, and only the beginning of a series of releases whether as solo projects or via his involvement with Triple Darkness and FuFu Gang
All international press & media enquiries, requests for promotional copies of the EP for review, or requests to interview Iron Braydz can be sent to UrbanElite PR HERE
Once again, Matt Oliver has delivered his monthly round up of news and releases from the world of hip hop in his Rapture & Verse column which appears in the long established British physical and online publication Clash Magazine.
In what is always an information packed look back at the month just passed, the current edition includes The Stonesthrow Documentary launch in Brixton, and further upcoming UK visits by Talib Kweli, Jazzy Jeff, Blu & Exile, Bishop Nehru & De La Soul.
Among the releases covered are those by Chuck English, Freddie Gibbs, Willie the Kid, Pharoahe Monch, Blanco & The Jacka, J Cole and the new EP by north London’s Iron Braydz “Verbal sWARdz” which releases on 14th April
The piece reads “The robust scriptures of Iron Braydz map out the path from Shaolin to North London and flip soul samples and voodoo fumes into street-spattered brain matter on ‘Verbal sWARdz’. The Triple Darkness delegate has his bare knuckle dawn raids viewing reality wide-eyed supported by an impressive pack of Phoenix Da Icefire, Prince Po, Kyza, Sean Price and Phat Kat. Bruising.”
The column is always a good read, and worth checking it out HERE
Accompanying the article was also the latest video from Iron Braydz “Dredd”. Check it out :
There’s been a high level of international media interest in this release already, so look out for much more coverage in the weeks ahead. Meanwhile keep up to date with Iron Braydz via twitter @Braydz and on Facebook “HollaAtBraydz” You can also reach the magazine via @Clash_Music
All press & media enquiries about Iron Braydz EP “Verbal sWARdz”, requests for promotional copies to review or requests to interview Iron Braydz, can be sent to UrbanElite PR HERE
For anyone outside of the UK unaware, SBTV have developed in the past few years from a website uploading freestyles from new upcoming artists in London to the biggest youth broadcaster in the country, with a mix of exclusive videos, interviews, & news covering independent homegrown artists to Major international established names.
Developed by young entrepreneur Jamal Edwards, the site has grown in its range of reporting to now include reviews, and they are the latest to endorse the new album Righteous Fury by west coast rapper Matt Maddox.
Released on 25th February through Red Phone Records / Seven 13 Music, it has already enjoyed a wide range of international media coverage reflecting the quality of lyricism on display from the emcee himself, assisted on mic duties by Tragedy Khadafi, King Magnetic, Reef the Lost Cauze, Adlib, Burke the Jurke and many more, including the UK’s Edd Bundy.
Fellow Red Phone labelmate DJ TMB supplies the turntablism throughout with quality production from Skammadix, Sicknature of The Snowgoons, C Lance of Jedi Mind Tricks, Vanderslice, Nemesis, Engineer, Sultan Mir and Hellzwind
The album is readily available from a wide selection of online stores worldwide, both in digital and physical CD formats. These include iTunes, Amazon, UGHH.com, CD Universe, Barnes & Noble and many more. If you have any specific inquiries for each country drop a line to the labels on twitter @RedPhoneRecords and @Seven13Music and they will be able to supply you with details of your most local store
Look out for more international media coverage coming in the weeks ahead, keep up to date with Matt Maddox on twitter @MattMaddox82 & SBTV at @sbtvonline and meantime check out the official album stream on Soundcloud
Any further media or press inquiries regarding this release can be sent to UrbanElite PR HERE
Long Beach MC Matt Maddox, now based in America’s Mid West, sat down recently with UK online hip hop magazine HHK Mag to discuss his forthcoming album Righteous Fury which releases 25th February on Red Phone Records / Seven 13 Music
He speaks on the process of putting it together, working with producers C Lance, Nemesis, Skammadix, Vanderslice & Sicknature, as well as arranging features by Reef the Lost Cauze, Tragedy Khadafi, King Magnetic and the UK’s Edd Bundy, and his touring plans for the year ahead
He also launched his new joint King Killer, taken from the album with beats by Germany’s “The Snowgoons” Danish producer Sicknature.
Check it out on Soundcloud
He also chose today to announce his new US tour dates with Reef The Lost Cauze & Adlib
Feb 20th- Allentown, PA Pitchers Lounge Feb 21st- Quakertown, PA The Eagle Feb 22nd- Staten Island, NY The Full Cup Feb 23rd- Atlantic City, NJ Gran Fromage Feb 28th- Spartanburg, SC Mirrors Gentlemens Club March 1st- Ashville, NC Haywood Lounge March 2nd- Norfolk, VA The Iguana March 5th- Chicago, IL Sub T lounge March 6th- Madison, WI March 7th- Milwaukee, WI The Stone Fly March 9th- Appleton, WI Capital Centre
An announcement confirming a further series of dates in Canada will be made shortly
The album is available on pre-order from the international iTunes link http://georiot.co/3ILt
Look out for much more international media coverage coming in the weeks ahead. Press & magazines requiring promotional copies of the album for review or requesting interviews with Matt Maddox should contact UrbanElite PR HERE
Similarly, any djs not already serviced with the full quality clean radio edit of King Killer can request the mp3 from the same point of contact
Riding in on the back of St Jude’s Storm which hit the southern UK this morning, the 28th October arrived and with it the release date of the debut solo album by west London’s rapper & producer Apex Zero.
Having released his mixtape The Pulse of the Awakening almost exactly a year ago, the new album “Reality Provoking Liberation” is 15 tracks of hard spittin, conscientious lyricism and raw energy which has received plaudits for the range of political and social issues addressed in the rhymes
Having been influenced by artists such as Wu Tang, dead prez, Immortal Technique, Phi Life Cypher, Blak Twang, Skinnyman and Klashnekoff, comparisons have been made by the media to UK hip hop contemporaries such as Lowkey, Akala & Triple Darkness for the manner in which he tears into the subject matter and brings meaning to the tracks in the best traditions of the culture.
Already reviewed and interviewed by a wide range of publications, including Flavour, Clash, Wordplay, Bearded, The Skinny, In-Spirels, The Word is Bond, Whatculture, MOJO, Subba Cultcha, AAA Music, Sampleface, Blacksheep and much more….with much more to come….it has been as anticipated a highly impressive debut from the emcee who remains a member of the city’s First and Last duo.
Released today independently on his own Design Chaos label, it is available to buy digitally or in physical format via mail order. BUY IT HERE
He has in fact added 3 bonus cuts recently to the original 12 track version, and the full tracklist is :
Head vs Heart (Intro) 02:12 Shackled by the Pound 04:26 Absolute Zero 03:40 Power Source (War at Night) 03:31 Our Times feat. OMeza Omniscient and Kyra 04:27 Walk on Water feat. Seapa and OMeza Omniscient 03:11 Don’t Follow the Image feat. OMeza Omniscient and Amy True 04:04 Three Children (Us and We) 06:37 Obtain Bearing 05:13 Everything Must Change 02:20 Chaotic Revolt 03:58 A Meeting of the Continents feat. Hasan Salaam and Iron Braydz 03:44 Spray the Roof feat. OMeza Omniscient and Invincible Armour 04:10 Apex Zero, Growth, Slay the Basilisk, First and Last, Reality Provoking Liberation – Growth (Slay the Basilisk) 07:04 Reality Provoking Liberation feat. OMeza Omniscient 05:21
There’s no question, this has been one of British hip hop’s albums of the year, and one all heads and fans of the traditional tru skool style will appreciate.
Check out his videos for Power Source and Chaotic Revolt
Be on the lookout for more press coverage in the weeks ahead, and a new video for Absolute Zero being launched on Monday 4th November. He will also be live on air with Mr 13 on Bang Radio tomorrow from 10pm GMT (5pm EST)
His official album launch party takes place on Saturday 7th December upstairs at The Vibe Bar, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL. Doors open at 8pm with entry £5.00. He will be appearing with a live band and there will also be performances from Caxton Press, Iron Braydz, DJ A.Gee (Itch FM) and hosted by Peaches. Venue details are at www.vibe-bar.co.uk
Any further media or press inquiries requesting interviews or copies of the album to review, or djs looking for full quality radio edit mp3s of any of the singles from the album can contact UrbanElite PR HERE
In the lead up to the release of his debut solo album, London’s hip hop rapper & producer Apex Zero took time out to speak with British online publication Flavour Magazine.
Flavour is a well established magazine covering a broad spectrum of urban culture whether music, news, general entertainment, fashion, lifestyle, movies and events. The album Reality Provoking Liberation, which releases on 28th October, has made a major impression with media for the range of political and social issues addressed by the Emcee, and the powerful lyricism with which they’re delivered. So the magazine’s contributor Delphina Scott was sent along to find out more about what makes the man tick
There will be much more press coverage on this release in the weeks ahead, and you’ll be able to hear him live on Itch FM on Saturday 26th October from 8pm (GMT), and on Bang FM, Tuesday 29th October from 10pm (GMT).
Meanwhile, check out a couple of his singles from his album
A Meeting of the Continents ft Hasan Salaam & Iron Braydz
Spray The Roof ft OMeza Omniscient & Invincible Armour
Any press or media with further inquiries about the album, or dj’s requiring clean radio edit mp3’s of the singles should contact UrbanElite PR HERE
Meanwhile keep up to date with Apex on twitter @ApexZero00 and via his site www.firstandlastpride.co.uk and look out for confirmation of his re-arranged album launch event in London being announced in the next couple of days. You can also follow the magazine on twitter @FlavourMag and connect with Delphina at @RawBlueCheese
UK based online magazine PopCulturez covers a wide range of interests including music genres rock, pop, country, r&b,hip hop and subjects such as sport, politics, tv, concerts….in other words news on the popular culture of the day.
They are the latest to cast an eye over the new album by rapper ethemadassassin, one half of the LA based duo Veteran Assassins most associated with North Carolina though has also worked out of New Jersey and Ohio at various times of his career.
“Soul on Fire” is his 3rd solo studio album, following on from the 2008 release “Tomorrow Never Comes” which included the video for Walk My Shoes as seen on UK stations MTV Base, Flava TV and others coast to coast across America. The current album is more auto biographical depicting his early days and the fashions, sounds and sights of the Nineties, while bringing things up to date of where he is today. Soul laced tracks like “80’s & 90’s” & “Can’t Get Enough” will be recognizable to older heads whereas fuel injected bangers like “Elements”, “Sparta”, “Tiger Blade” and even the latest bonus joint “H.T.G.” brings out the grittier side to this Emcee.
The PopCulturez review reflects on it, opening “he has something that many strictly battle-focused rappers lack; he can craft real songs too.” and in closing “Sure to please fans of 90s-style hardcore hip-hop from the likes of D.I.T.C., E offers his own take on the streets while demonstrating that, as an MC, he is not to be taken lightly.”
All media, press and dj inquiries, requests for interviews & full quality clean edit mp3s of any of these tracks can be addressed to UrbanElite PR HERE
London’s Apex Zero releases his debut solo album Reality Provoking Liberation on 28th October, and took time out recently to speak with UK hip hop magazine HHK.
In the interview which you can read HERE he speaks on developing the album which in the main he also self produced with fellow First and Last member OMeziah, working with Hasan Salaam and Iron Braydz on the recent single “A Meeting of the Continents”, his early days starting out in London’s live circuit at nights such as EOW and Speaker’s Corner, his thoughts on the current UK hip hop & rap scene and artists he’d look to work with in the future
The magazine also premiered his brand new freestyle track “The World Which We Exist In”
Check it out on Soundcloud
Look out for much more coverage on this release in the weeks ahead and also news of a launch night due to take place in London in early November
Meantime keep up to date with him on twitter @ApexZero00 and the magazine @HHKMag
Any djs not already serviced with the abridged radio edit of the track can request it from UrbanElite PR HERE
UK online music magazine Subba Cultcha covers a wide variety of genres, featuring news on artists, releases, interviews and more
The publication’s Ben Bradford took time out recently to speak with Los Angeles hip hop emcee EtheMadAssassin ahead of the release of his third solo album “Soul on Fire” on 17th September.
Something of a veteran in the independent scene…and not just as part of Cali duo Veteran Assassins…he started out based in Greensboro NC and also spent time in Camden, New Jersey before making the move to the west coast primarily to start the new group with his partner in rhyme Veteran Eye.
The interview is preceded with an overview of the new album itself “if you want to learn of life on the streets, particularly in the 80s and 90s then this is the place to come” adding “This is Assassin rap…where Ethemadassassin comes out fighting for you, fighting for himself, and fighting for people to be together and fighting against the bullshit…its an honest and breathtakingly direct approach, which has come to fruition on his new album ’Soul On Fire’”
The interview itself covers details about the single and video for “Can’t Get Enough”, the making of Soul on Fire, working with the producers on the LP, how he formulates the ideas behind his rhymes & lyrics and the general writing process, the formation of Veteran Assassins and the days in when he started out in NC and the artists who acted as his own main influences.
An artist with his own unique style & personality, he sums it up :
“I found my pocket a long time ago and I definitely don’t try to emulate anyone, its like being yourself isn’t cool, I have my own way of doing things” read the whole interview HERE
If you like those old soul groove sampled joints with a nod to the good ‘ol days, check out two of his most recent singles:
Video for “Can’t Get Enough”
Single for “80’s & 90’s” produced by Edinburgh’s Sci Fi Stu
During Ultramagnetic MC’s recent UK & European tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of Critical Beatdown, they sat down with Hip Hop Kings backstage at the Brudenell Social Club, Leeds on Tuesday 9th July
In this short interview, Kool Keith & Ced Gee speak on the recording of a new group studio album, while Keith also discusses his return to producing and the artists he’s working with
The group have just returned to New York from their tour which lasted most of July and took in Paris, Amsterdam, Belgium, Cologne and several cities around the UK. Look out for new releases coming in the not too distant future as well as news on further international tours before the end of the year
You can follow HHK on twitter @HHKMag and Ultramagnetic MCs can be found via Kool Keith – @ultraman7000 TR Love @TR_Ultra and their group account is @MCsUltra
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