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Link Up TV are giving producers the opportunity to work on LD’s next single, as well as having it recorded and mixed by Fumez the Engineer. The UK music platform is also giving aspiring video directors the opportunity to win the opportunity to direct an official Link Up TV video. With only three days left to apply, the process is simple; producers have been asked to send in their three best beats, while directors have been asked to send their best links to theprocess@linkuptv.co.uk.

Link Up TV has been the platform for a number of the UK’s biggest artists and producers to make their name, producers such as M1onthebeat, Gotcha and Splurgeboys have all featured on the channel, whereas videographers such as Kaylum Dennis and Myles Suave shot some of their earliest and biggest work for the online platform.

Fumez The Engineer has become one of the biggest names in UK drill in the last year without having to even say a word. The engineer created his own freestyle platform ‘Plugged in with Fumez’ an idea that mixed classic freestyling with immediate reactions made by the onlooking Fumez. The idea took the internet by storm, with some of his most viewed freestyles sitting on over 40 million views. LD on the other hand has recently been released from prison after over 2 and a half years away. The masked rapper was arrested at the peak of his career, after he and his group 67 pioneered UK drill as some of the first to ever create music with that distinct sound.

The opportunity to work with these UK music heavyweights is being offered by Link Up TV. Producers, send three beats over to the above email, and directors, send over a link to your best work.

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The single was released by Ed Sheeran as his comeback track and currently sits at Number 1 on the official charts following its release 6 weeks ago.

The drill inspired remix features Edmonton’s Tion Wayne, West London Central cee and one of the most influential engineers in UK rap, Fumez the engineer.

Sheeran has always been a fan of UK rap coming up on channels such as SBTV, his collaboration albums have always celebrated his love from grime and UK rap and featured artists such as P Money, Wiley, Jme, Devlin and most recently on his ‘No.6 Collaborations Project’.

The 30-year-old has been working within the UK scene for over 10 years having released his first A64  on Sbtv in 2011. The SBTV founder Jamal Edwards has been very influential in helping connect Ed with the grime scene in his early stage as well as helping set up the remix for ‘Bad Habits’ and linking up Ed with his favourite drill rapper Kwengface.

Tion Wayne is no stranger to the top of the charts, releasing the first drill song to go number one this year alongside Russ on ‘Body’. The ferocious flows and energy that he brings to a track make him a perfect representative for the UK drill scene on such as big remix.

Central Cee has recently found himself to be one of the biggest artists in the country,  having charted at number 2 with his debut project ‘Wild West’ as well as receiving 4 GRM rated awards nominations for ‘Mixtape of the year’,’ Track of the year’, ‘Breakthrough of the year’ as well as ‘Male artist of the year’. His rise didn’t come out of anywhere with the west Londoner having released music for over 6 years.

Fumez the engineer helped put a drill twist to the track, alongside the beatsbycdot and Fred again. Fumez freestyle platform ‘Plugged in with fumez’ has become one of the biggest freestyle platforms in the UK rap scene, his most notable has come from Irish group A92 whose freestyle currently sits on 33 million youtube views and North London group TPL whose freestyle has 22 million views.

The remix to Ed Sheeran’s ‘Bad Habits’ is available to watch here: