Mic Righteous tells the Thoughts Of A Dying Man in his brand new hard hitting track with accompanying video produced by Red Skull Beats.
October 29, 2012
Mic Righteous – Daily Duppy EP.13
Mic Righteous brings the 13th segment of GRM Daily’s new Daily Duppy’s series.
October 2, 2012
MTV Wrap Up: UK Rap Rundown [News]
He has been one of my favourite rappers for over a year now, since the release of ‘Yob Culture’ and my first meeting with him last summer at the filming of the UK BET cypher. Mic Righteous has announced that he will be releasing an EP called ‘Open Mic’ in January and after his immensely impressive SB.TV session last week, I know this may well be the best we have heard from him so far…
He has also asked the True Tiger boys to remix his first single ‘Ghost Town’, which I expect will have a dubstep sound.
Cashtastic was busy on Saturday night as he shot the video to his new track ‘Alarm Clock’, tweeting: “Gunna wake the game up wid #AlarmClock both song and video”, he tweeted this along with pictures from his Instagram account to give his fans a taster of what is to come.
K. Koke had a special surprise for fans last night as he had them guessing on Twitter what his ‘#KokeSurprise’ was. He then released a net video to a track called ‘Warning’, announcing that he would be releasing ‘Pure Koke Vol 3’, writing: “THE LAST PUREKOKEVOL3……… AFTER THIS IAINTPERFECT 2 D WORLD USG ATEAM RCA/ROC”. The last of the Pure Koke tapes will be out tonight at 8pm, so make sure you look out for it.
Last week we heard a bit more of what was to come from Giggs – I know I am definitely excited to hear some new music from him soon. He tweeted last Monday: “WHEN WILL IT STOP” still coming soon…” He also shot a new music video last Monday, so we should be hearing and seeing some new material from him in the immediate future.
Political Peak gave us a video of the behind-the-scenes action for his forthcoming video ‘Jump Off’ and then released the audio to the track. The club banger comes from his forthcoming ‘Dreams 2 Reality’ mixtape.
I spoke to him about the track, which sees him take a different approach his usual style: “A producer from Philadelphia came over to London to work with me. He showed me his sound that he’s got going on out there – then ‘Jump Off’ was created. The song is basically about bad girls getting treated like good girls.”
Youngs Teflon has been working hard and recently released the ‘Wrapping Ain’t Dead’ video from his ‘Tr!ll!n’ mixtape. The south London rapper has called on some UK heavyweights such as Skepta, NoLay, Joe Black and Squeeks to help him out with the free 16-track mixtape
August 8, 2012
MTV Wrap Up – The UK Rap Rundown
Last week I informed you that Tim Westwood had put in a complaint to YouTube to have the Mic Righteous ‘Sack City’ audio track removed. Mic didn’t let this bother him, because on July 31, he released the music video he had filmed whilst out in Ayia Napa for Fire On The Beach. The ‘Sack City’ video was filmed by SB.TV and included cameos from Wiley, Mz Bratt, Sneakbo and more. The video has now been made private; now the question is – is this due to another complaint from Westwood…
Now it’s time to look at the standout tracks and videos from last week. The first thing to catch my eye was Haze’s ‘Freedom Writers’ featuring Renee Soul, Mike GLC, Logic, and Cerose. The track is a powerful one and comes from the ‘Loyalty. Honor. Respect’ mixtape from Haze.
Ard Adz and Sho Shallow really are putting in the work, as I’m seeing a lot of new tracks and visuals from them. Their recent one ‘Love Live Life’ is a reflective and thoughtful track from the South London rappers.
London Ivy worked with respected producer Nutty P for his brand new track ‘Do You Wanna Ride’, which will be on the rapper’s forthcoming free project ‘C.A.R.C.D’ (The Conquer and Rule CD).
UK rap maestro Sneakbo joined Vybz Kartel to provide the first remix of Orange Hill’s new single ‘Pon Time’, giving the track a homegrown flavour.
North London rapper Squeeks is the second person on the GRM Daily website to release a Daily Duppy. He uses the numbers 1 to 10 in some of his first bars, showing off his lyrical skills. Meanwhile, Young Spray talks us through how he has become the man he is today on the new track ‘Came Up’ which is the first release from his forthcoming album ‘Hard 2 Kill part 2’, set to come out on August 27.
Influential artists Akala and English Frank have joined together for ‘Educated Tug S**t’. The message behind the track? If you’re not educated and have no principles, street reputation and living a gangster life means nothing. The video shows clips of the ‘Spartan Fam’ exercise group in the background, with the rest kept simple.
Lastly this collaboration is the one that’s been on many peoples lips for the last couple of months. Was it going to happen? It seems the answer is yes as a 17-second teaser was released on the Benny Banks official channel. ‘Who’s The Daddy’ featuring Dappy should be released in full in the next few weeks – keep your eyes and ears peeled!
July 31, 2012
MTV Wrap Up – The UK Rap Rundown
The Olympics is what everyone was talking about last week, with the opening ceremony on Friday being rather explosive and extravagant. We saw familiar faces such as Mr Bean, James Bond and the ‘Queen’ jumping out of a helicopter…
Dizzee Rascal was given the honour of recording the official Olympic Song of the London 2012 Olympic Games. At the ceremony, he performed the track ‘Scream’ which features the first lady of Dirtee Stank, Pepper along with ‘Bonkers’. Wretch 32 opened the Olympic Torch Relay Finale in London’s Hyde Park. This was a great moment for the urban music industry, showing the popularity and strength it has.
Margate rapper Mic Righteous previously released a diss track to Tim Westwood called ‘Sack City’ which has now been taken off YouTube after the ‘Big Dawg’ put in a complaint about it. Mic tweeted a picture of the video, which has a message on it stating, “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Tim Westwood.” Considering the track came out over a month ago in June, it has taken quite a while and everybody has probably heard it by now anyway…
Hip-hop collective Caxton Press have been hard at work releasing video after video. Last week the visuals to ‘Touch The Sun’ came out, which is the eighth video from their ‘Shame The Devil’ album.
Sho Shallow showed us another side to him as he took a more laid back and melodic approach for new track ‘Weed In My Lungs,’ a refix of Kirko Bangz’s ‘Drank In My Cup’ – which has also previously seen remixes from J. Cole and 2 Chainz.
Manchester’s Lyrican put out the first joint US and UK hosted mixtape ‘The Problem Child’ with Charlie Sloth and DJ Drama. The 15 track project includes the internet hit ‘Simon Cowell’. He is becoming one of rap’s most promising figures and the mixtape proves why with his intelligent wordplay and strong delivery.
There are two freestyles that have caught my eye this week; the first one goes to USG’s youngest member 15-year-old Geko, who brought heat to Charlie Sloth’s Fire In The Booth. He tells us a few stories through the first track and then gets into an emotional freestyle.
With the re-launch of the Grime Daily website and the name change to GRM Daily, rapper DVS was the first artist after the re-launch to put out a Daily Duppy. He slows it down with some deep bars for the first half before switching it up over the ‘Rack City’ beat – check it out!
July 31, 2012
Mic Righteous – Sack City (Tim Westwood Diss)
Mic Righteous went out to Napa for Fire On The Beach where he recorded the video to Sack City, featuring cameo’s from Wiley, Mz Bratt, Sneakbo, K Koke and more…Tim Westwood already had the audio removed due to a ‘copyright claim’ off Youtube. This hasn’t stopped Mic, will Westwood try and remove this as well?
July 18, 2012
English Frank ft Anamate – OFFENDER – Offender Theme Song
English Frank releases the music video to the official Offender theme song, giving the track the same title as the movie.
I went to the screening of the film a few weeks back now, and it is definitely one to watch with English Frank, G FrSH, Scorcher in it and a cameo from Mic Righteous. It’s out in cinemas August 8th.
June 20, 2012
MIC RIGHTEOUS – SACK CITY
I’m a bit late on this diss track, but you have to forgive me I’ve been in Spain for a week and a lot of people were telling me about this track as soon as I got back today.
Westwood really shouldn’t have dissed Mic Righteous, the UK rapper goes in hard on this diss track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C7RLClbHiU
Check out the post I wrote when Westwood dissed Mic Righteous first
Righteous anger? Big Dawg Westwood lays into the Mic
June 1, 2012
Righteous anger? Big Dawg Westwood lays into the Mic
It started off with Devlin dropping in on Westwood’s show to talk about his new music…
At 5 minutes 20 seconds Devlin drops in Mic Righteous’ name.
“I see other people trying to come through, even if there not my favourite MC’s like Mic Righteous. At least he’s trying to be lyrical man, so I have to respect that little corner. I’m all for the lyrics.”
Then last night Westwood decided to comment on how no-one was beefing, not mentioning any names but we all knew who he was talking about, especially when he said GO back to Margate.This is what the Big Dawg said last night…
“His (Devlin) interview is online, he didn’t name names of who he was really pointing the finger at, but people are claiming it’s them, and I was here and I talked to him on mic and off mic, and it’s not you you just want the promo kid, you just want the promo. Don’t take the promo baby. You just want to big your chest up and claim beef when there’s no beef there. I read your timeline don’t get it twisted kid, your sour. Fix your face sucker. Don’t be claiming what you want…it aint you. Go back to Margate.”
Its still too early to imagine how this might develop, but the idea of 2 equally talented lycrical heavyweights wading into each other is an exciting prospect. Although having said that, why is Westwood getting hot and bothered about it? I guess he’s still angry at being fired from his show.
April 13, 2012
Preston Play – Show Of Force Instrumentalist Mixtape
Preston Play the producer behind Mic Righteous’ production on Kampain, releases a instrumental mixtape with vocals and harmonies already recorded by him. This is free to download, and now any artist can get a beat from here and jump on any tracks.
Download Show Of Force here
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