North London Emcee & producer Iron Braydz has today released his new EP “Verbal sWARdz” on his own Unorthostract label.
The Triple Darkness member has several releases lined up for the year ahead, starting with this 10 track hip hop banger which has a real international flavour given the various featured artists involved. Check the tracklist
1 – Intro
2 – Scorpion Sting ft Kyza (produced by Iron Braydz)
3 – Crowbar Head Topper with Solar Black & Ray Vendetta (produced by Ringz of Saturn)
4 – Millennium ft Prince Po (produced by Daniel Taylor)
5 – Dredd (produced by Iron Braydz)
6 – Rambo ft Kyza & Skriblah (produced by Iron Braydz)
7 – Firey Red ft Sean Price (produced by Iron Braydz)
8 – Dobermans ft Phat Kat & DJ Shortee Blitz (produced by Agor)
9 – Rambo Relapse ft Kyza, Skriblah, Black Cripton & Solar Black (produced by Iron Braydz)
10 – Verbal sWARdz ft Cyrus Malachi (produced by Iron Braydz)
He marked the release by launching a brand new video today for the track “Rambo” featuring Kyza and Skriblah. Shot recently in east London by Global Faction, check it out on Youtube
Look out for a lot more international media coverage on this release, and meantime connect with Iron Braydz on twitter @Braydz and on Facebook “HollaAtBraydz“. You can also reach the guys Kyza on twitter @MrSaySo and @Skriblah
All dj requests for the full quality clean radio edit mp3 of Rambo, or any further media & press inquiries about Iron Braydz & the “Verbal sWARdz” EP can be sent to UrbanElite PR HERE
Latest in The Beeshine’s “What Inspires” series, they speak with Long Beach rapper, now based in Kansas, Matt Maddox about what inspired him in hip hop & life. Others such as Pete Rock, King Syze, Small Professor & Lord Finesse have recently been featured in this series.
Shot in New Jersey while touring with Reef the Lost Cauze & Adlib, he released his new album “Righteous Fury” in February, available worldwide in digital and CD formats through Red Phone Records / Seven 13 Music
The album also features Tragedy Khadafi, Burke the Jurke, King Magnetic and many more with production by Skammadix, Nemesis, Sicknature (The Snowgoons), Vanderslice, C Lance (Jedi Mind Tricks), Sultan Mir, and Engineer. Cuts are provided throughout by Red Phone labelmate DJ TMB
Watch the interview on The Beeshine’s Youtube Channel
Matt Maddox has just finished filming a new video for the track “Work” produced by Skammadix and featuring Mina Fedora, so you’ll be seeing that online very shortly.
Iron Braydz releases his Verbal sWARdz EP on 14th April, and has just launched this new video for the self produced track “Dredd”
The EP, the first of a series of releases planned by the North London MC over the next year, includes features by several of his fellow Triple Darkness members in addition to Kyza, Skriblah, Organized Konfusion’s Prince Po and Sean Price
Also look out for Braydz appearing in a new independent film “Night Bus” later in the year, directed by Simon Baker who picked up several awards for his “Paralympic” series for Channel 4.
You can also connect online with Iron Braydz via twitter @Braydz
Amy djs not already serviced with the full quality clean / radio edit mp3 can request it from UrbanElite PR HERE Similarly, any press & media interested in receiving a promotional copy of the EP for review, or to request an interview with Iron Braydz should get in touch with UrbanElite PR at the same point of contact.
The new album “Righteous Fury by ex Guerilla War Tactix member Matt Maddox releases tomorrow 25th February on Red Phone Records / Seven 13 Music.
Originally out of Long Beach California and currently resident in Kansas, the rapper has put several years’ work into this his sophomore release, and it includes all the key qualities of an authentic hip hop album – skilled lyricism and wordplay, quality beats and turntablism, and a well chosen selection of special guest features
UK online magazine PopCulturez are the latest to give their full endorsement in this new review published today. “Lyrically thick, this album takes things right back to hardcore rhyme spitting such as on the superb, uncompromising, ‘Murder Weapons.” as the magazine goes into further detail of the east meets west influence throughout, concluding “Without playing to the commercial galleries, this album hits hard with no filler, clocking in at 57 minutes to deliver a lean and mean collection“.
The album is in digital and physical CD formats, available from a wide range of online stores including Amazon, UGHH.com, iTunes, CD Universe, Virgin Media and many more.
Check the video trailer featuring the track “The Get Back” produced by Skammadix where Maddox is joined on the mic by King Magnetic
You can catch Matt Maddox on tour with Reef the Lost Cauze and Adlib over the next couple of weeks at venues in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Chicago and Wisconsin. Check in with him on twitter @MattMaddox82 to keep up to date with what’s happening. You can also check in with the magazine @PopCulturez
Any press and new media requests for promotional copies of the album to review, or to interview Matt Maddox can be forwarded to UrbanElite PR HERE
There are a few Youtube channels set up as review platforms for hip hop & rap albums, some providing more detailed coverage than others. The Underground Vault based in Canada is one which does go more in depth with their reviews, having clearly taken their time to listen through an album on more than one occasion and then provide a very well explained formed opinion, usually lasting 10 – 15 minutes
Such a review was published last night for the new Matt Maddox album “Righteous Fury” which releases tomorrow, 25th February on Red Phone Records / Seven 13 Music.
It’s a well rounded and thoughtful appraisal, check it out
The album will be available in both CD and digital format. There are already many international stores which you can search online, including UGHH.COM, iTunes, CD Universe and Amazon, who will provide whichever format you prefer
Here is the full album tracklist
1. No Country For Old Men produced by Engineer
2. Interlude produced by Sultan Mir
3. Sick & Tired cuts by TMB produced by Sultan Mir
4. BARbarians ft Godilla, UG & Born Unique produced by Hellzwind
5. Work ft Mina Fedora produced by Skammadix
6. El Mariachi produced by Nemesis
7. The Get Back ft King Magnetic produced by Skammadix
8. Comedy Pt 1 produced by Skammadix
9. Murder Weapons ft Swann Cuts by TMB produced by C Lance
10. Spider Man ft Adlib & Reef The Lost Cauze produced by Vanderslice
11. Mjolnir ft Burke the Jurke Cuts by TMB produced by C Lance
12. King Killer produced by Sicknature
13. Olympus Has Fallen Cuts by TMB produced by Hellzwind
14. Upon A Pale Horse ft Edd Bundy Cuts by TMB produced by Edd Bundy
15. Comedy Pt 2 produced by Skammadix
16. A Time To Kill Cuts by TMB produced by Hellzwind
17. Street Art ft Tragedy Khadafi Cuts by TMB produced by Skammadix
18. Reality’s a Bitch produced by Skammadix
19. Show Must Go On produced by Nemesis
Check out the audio for the track “King Killer” produced by The Snowgoons’ Sicknature, selected by Underground Vault as their favourite from the album
Look out for much more coverage coming from international media in the next few weeks, as well as a new joint launching this Thursday, 27th February. Matt Maddox is currently on tour with Reef the Lost Cauze & Adlib, and has shows coming up in North & South Carolina, Virginia, Chicago and Wisconsin. Keep up to date with him on twitter @MattMaddox82
Any further press or media inquiries about, whether requests for promotional copies of the album to review, or requests for interviews, can be forwarded to UrbanElite PR HERE
With only a couple of days to go until the release of the sophomore album by Kansas base MC Matt Maddox, renowned Stateside online magazine Dead End Hip Hop are the latest to run the rule over “Righteous Fury”
Their contributor Samuel Odunsi Jr pays tribute to the essence of the album which is “hearkening back to the earlier days of hip hop that boasted raw lyricism over everything else” and concludes If you miss that raw, old-school hip hop sound I strongly recommend you give this 19-track project a listen. It’ll leave you more than satisfied You can read the entire article HERE
Artists such as Matt Maddox have retained a global market over the years as while many of us remember the sound of decades gone by, new generations not as readily exposed to it on the network channels have discovered the classics in clubs and the internet. For them, it’s “new”, and has qualities not as prevalent elsewhere. Hip Hop and rap music has developed and diversified over the years as happens with every genre. Those who draw from the elements of the Golden Era are not themselves stuck in the 90’s. They have developed that style to the contemporary version they produce today. Everything comes from somewhere, there are differences, one thing is not another, but neither is one thing necessarily “better”than another – the public pays its money & takes its choice.
It’s thanks to artists such as Matt Maddox and many more the world over that a younger generation realize they have a choice
Releasing Tuesday 25th February on Red Phone Records / Seven 13 Music, here is the video trailer for the album which uses the track “The Get Back” featuring King Magnetic. Righteous Fury can be pre-ordered on iTunes at http://georiot.co/3ILt
Here is the album tracklist
1. No Country For Old Men produced by Engineer
2. Interlude produced by Sultan Mir
3. Sick & Tired cuts by TMB produced by Sultan Mir
4. BARbarians ft Godilla, UG & Born Unique produced by Hellzwind
5. Work ft Mina Fedora produced by Skammadix
6. El Mariachi produced by Nemesis
7. The Get Back ft King Magnetic produced by Skammadix
8. Comedy Pt 1 produced by Skammadix
9. Murder Weapons ft Swann Cuts by TMB produced by C Lance
10. Spider Man ft Adlib & Reef The Lost Cauze produced by Vanderslice
11. Mjolnir ft Burke the Jurke Cuts by TMB produced by C Lance
12. King Killer produced by Sicknature
13. Olympus Has Fallen Cuts by TMB produced by Hellzwind
14. Upon A Pale Horse ft Edd Bundy Cuts by TMB produced by Edd Bundy
15. Comedy Pt 2 produced by Skammadix
16. A Time To Kill Cuts by TMB produced by Hellzwind
17. Street Art ft Tragedy Khadafi Cuts by TMB produced by Skammadix
18. Reality’s a Bitch produced by Skammadix
19. Show Must Go On produced by Nemesis
Currently on tour with Reef the Lost Cauze and Adlib, and about to hit venues in Atlantic City, Chicago, Virginia, North & South Carolina and Wisconsin, you can keep up to date with him on twitter @MattMaddox82 and check in with the guys at the magazine @DeadEndHipHop
Any further press & media inquiries regarding Matt Maddox can be sent to UrbanElite PR HERE
Wordplay Magazine is one of the UK’s leading online & physical publications covering the various traditional elements and culture of hip hop, with news, review and feature coverage of music, graffiti, breakin, fashions and everything else in between
They are the latest to endorse the new Matt Maddox album “Righteous Fury” which releases 25th February 2014 on Red Phone Records / Seven 13 Music
Writer Craig Palmer affords the release a 4 star rating, recommending it to fans of Army of the Pharaohs, La Coka Nostra and Snowgoons for the powerful and intelligent delivery of Maddox’ lyricism, backed by high quality production & turntablism from the likes of C Lance, Skammadix, Sicknature, Nemesis, Vanderslice & DJ TMB. Add into the mix features from Tragedy Khadafi, Reef the Lost Cauze, King Magnetic, Adlib and other assembled cast members, it results in a potent release for all who appreciate the authentic hip hop sound
Their review, which includes videos for the releases BARbarians (ft UG, Godilla & Born Unique) & No Country For Old Men, and the audio streams for Street Art ft Tragedy Khadafi and King Killer produced by Sicknature, can be read HERE
The MC, originally from southern California but now resident in America’s MidWest has just launched a video trailer for the album. It features the joint “The Get Back” with King Magnetic
Currently on tour with Reef the Lost Cauze and Adlib performing at venues in Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, North & South Carolina, Chicago and Wisconsin, you can keep up to date with him on twitter @MattMaddox82 and the magazine @Wordplaymag
Look out for much more international media coverage on this release in the next few weeks, and also for a brand new single being launched to the internet in the next few days. Any members of the press who would like promotional copies of the album to review, or to request interviews with Matt Maddox, can contact UrbanElite PR HERE
The new Matt Maddox album “Righteous Fury” is the highly anticipated follow up to his debut “Asylum Artistry” and releases Tuesday 25th February on Red Phone Records / Seven 13 Music.
It’s been a long time in the making but has enjoyed an impressive international media response, reflecting the skilled wordplay and powerful delivery of the Kansas based MC. The ex Guerilla War Tactix member has called on some well known names in the world of hip hop to join him on the album.
Producers including Nemesis, Skammadix, C Lance (Jedi Mind Tricks), Sicknature (Snowgoons), and Vanderslice have provided some neck breakin beats over which Maddox and featured artists such as Tragedy Khadafi, Reef the Lost Cauze, King Magnetic, Adlib and Burke the Jurke have delivered the lyrical fire. A healthy dose of quality turntablism is in effect throughout courtesy of fellow Red Phone labelmate DJ TMB.
He has just launched the video trailer for the album on Youtube, and the soundtrack used is the track “The Get Back” ft King Magnetic. Check it out
The album will be available in digital and physical formats, and can be pre-ordered in the following ways:
Order the physical CD format with additional T-shirt, poster and sticker (free shipping) HERE
Here is the full tracklisting
1. No Country For Old Men produced by Engineer
2. Interlude produced by Sultan Mir
3. Sick & Tired cuts by TMB produced by Sultan Mir
4. BARbarians ft Godilla, UG & Born Unique produced by Hellzwind
5. Work ft Mina Fedora produced by Skammadix
6. El Mariachi produced by Nemesis
7. The Get Back ft King Magnetic produced by Skammadix
8. Comedy Pt 1 produced by Skammadix
9. Murder Weapons ft Swann Cuts by TMB produced by C Lance
10. Spider Man ft Adlib & Reef The Lost Cauze produced by Vanderslice
11. Mjolnir ft Burke the Jurke Cuts by TMB produced by C Lance
12. King Killer produced by Sicknature
13. Olympus Has Fallen Cuts by TMB produced by Hellzwind
14. Upon A Pale Horse ft Edd Bundy Cuts by TMB produced by Edd Bundy
15. Comedy Pt 2 produced by Skammadix
16. A Time To Kill Cuts by TMB produced by Hellzwind
17. Street Art ft Tragedy Khadafi Cuts by TMB produced by Skammadix
18. Reality’s a Bitch produced by Skammadix
19. Show Must Go On produced by Nemesis
He is also currently on tour with Reef the Lost Cauze and Adlib. Catch them at any of these venues in the next couple of weeks:
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
Look out for a lot more international media coverage in the next few weeks and also the launch of a new single next week. Keep up to date with his release and tour news over at twitter @MattMaddox82 and check in with his label partners @RedPhoneRecords & @Seven13Music
All true hip hop heads need to mark this one in the calendar :
25th February – Matt Maddox “Righteous Fury” – cop the real deal !!
Long running online platform supporting British hip hop & rap artists, UKHH.Com, got together with London’s Apex Zero recently to film a new interview where he speaks on his new album Reality Provoking Liberation (out 28th October) and he also spits some exclusive bars for them.
One half of the city’s First and Last duo, this is his debut solo album and has made a strong impression with the UK’s media recognizing the passion with which he addresses a range of political and social issues in his lyricism, the energetic delivery style and tight production, much of which is supplied by the man himself.
The album launch event was originally scheduled to take place at The Vibe Bar in Brick Lane on Saturday 2nd November. This has had to be delayed slightly due to other schedule obligations, but expect an announcement on the new date shortly.
Look out for much more coverage in the weeks ahead. Any media & press inquiries about the album can be sent to UrbanElite PR HERE
Meanwhile, keep up to date with Apex Zero on twitter @ApexZero00 and also connect with D-Facer and the guys over at @UKHHCOM
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
