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Yungen Returns With His GRM Daily Duppy

Noah Fashesin — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 15:43:04 +0000

Yungen returns with a GRM Daily Duppy. The south London rapper coming out of Herne hill took to the infamous freestyle platform to give fans their first bit of Yungen music since his track “Mane and Salah”, which he released in 2020 following the rapper’s team, Liverpool FC, winning the Premier League.

The 29-year-old stepped up to the platform and covered a few topics including his lack of awards, not being brought up when people are making UK rap top 10 lists and flexes on listeners with the success he has amassed.

Before Yungens hiatus the rapper was putting out a number of singles and hits alongside artists from the UK scene, between 2017 adn 2019 he worked on tracks alongside Craig David, One Acen, M24, Dappy, Jess Glyne, Not3s, Mr Eazi, Mo Stack and Yxng Bane. Yungen had a number of hits such as his track “Beste” which he released in 2017 alongside Yxng Bane the track was one of the earliest tracks to come from the UK rap scene and have such commercial success, peaking on the charts at 10th and spending 31 weeks on the charts, as well as chart success the track also sits on just over 77 million Spotify streams. His track alongside Mr Eazi, Mo Stack adn Not3s was a steel Bnaglez track adn the song titled “Bad” reached 29th on the carts and sits on 55 million Spotify streams.

Yungen has been rapping for over 10 years and despite what he says in his Daily duppy, to real fans of UK rap is a legend within the scene. His career has seen his connection with fellow south London rappers Krept and Konan with Yungen being an official member of the Play dirty collective, he has also been involved in classic rap beef with grime star Chip in 2016 with the pair sending diss track back and forth.

Yungens Daily Duppy is available to watch here:

Tion Wayne And Central Cee Win Big At This Year GRM Rated Awards

Noah Fashesin — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:24:26 +0000

The 2021 Grm rated awards took place last night celebrating the best of the black British music scene. The show was held virtually for the second year running and saw 8 winning acts from the 10 different categories.

This year’s awards show was hosted by British model Jordan Dunn and comedian Michael Dapaah, the latter stepped in to replace Idris Elba ho had to pull out “Due to circumstances out of my control”. The stage saw performances from Potter Payper who performed his track “Frank White”, Tion Wayne who performed a medley of his hits “Where were they”, “WOW” and “Body”, Pa Salieu and Backroad Gee with “My family”, Enny who performed “Peng black girls”, and Heartless Crew who picked up the Legacy award at this year’s awards show.

Central Cee picked up his first award of the night for ‘Breakthrough Artist of the year’ who released his debut mixtape which debuted at 2nd on the official charts, as well as this the rapper released a number of singles and amassed well over 200 million youtube views with 5 million monthly Spotify listeners. These impressive achievements helped the west Londoner pick up two awards at last nights awards show with the 23-year-old taking home ‘Male artist of the year’ as well as ‘Breakthrough of the year’.

Tion Wayne and Russ picked up the second award of the night ‘Video of the year’, for their video for their chart-topping single “Body’. The video shot by Wowa currently sits on 55 million views 5 months after its release. Tion and Russ’s hit ‘Body’ helped the duo pick up their second award of the night for ‘Track of the year’, their number one single was a record-breaker after becoming the first drill song to ever go number 1 in the UK charts and stayed in that position for 3 consecutive weeks.

Potter Payper added a rated award to his list of achievements he has accomplished since his release from jail just over a year ago, the 28-year-old picked up the award for ‘Mixtape of the year’ for his release Training day 3. ‘Album of the year’ went to Ghetts for his mercury prize nominated album Conflict of interest which debuted at 2nd on the official charts.

‘Female artist of the year’ went to Walsall’s Jorja Smith who released her project Be right back this year as well as appearing on a number of impressive features. M1onthebeat picked up ‘Producer of the year’ the UK drill pioneer working with the likes of Headie One, K- trap and Drake in the last year. Charlie sloth picked up ‘Rdio DJ of the year’ while Niko Omilana won ‘Personality of the year’ after having an impressive year that saw his party The Niko defence league (NDL) achieving fifth place in the London mayoral election gaining over 50,000 votes.

Idris Elba To Host The 2021 GRM Rated Awards

Noah Fashesin — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 17:48:56 +0000

Idris Elba appears on GRM dailys legendary freestyle platform Daily Duppy. The multi-talented actor, DJ and rapper performed a freestyle for GRM to announce himself as the host of this years GRM rated awards.

Grm daily released a trailer last Wednesday showing the shadow of a man walking through the GRM offices to the freestyle set, with fans in the comments guessing who it could be. Names such as Dave, Bugzy Malone and Stormzy flooded the comments with only a few people correctly guessing the famed actor.

Idris Elba has been involved in music for well over 15 years, as a rapper and DJ, having co-produced and performed on the intro for Jay-Zs American gangster album in 2007. He has released projects and DJed at festivals such as Coachella, boardmasters and Elrow town. His daily duppy isn’t his first involvement with UK rap having dropped a remix to Skepta’s hit “Shutdown” in 2015 and appeared alongside Sean Paul, Steff London and Wiley on the smash hit “Boasy”.

The freestyle saw Idris flexing his muscles and accolades. Rapping about having Margot Robbie on speed dial, being in the Arsenal changing room after matches and his friendship with Anthony Joshua. Elba also shared that being James Bond isn’t part of his plan but that he will be making a Luther movie.

The freestyle was ultimately to announce that Idris Elba would be hosting this year GRM rated awards on the 18th of September alongside British model Jourdan Dunn.

Idris Elba’s GRM daily Duppy is available to watch here:

Shaybo Announces Debut Project ‘Queen Of The South’

Noah Fashesin — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 17:19:00 +0000

Shaybo has announced her debut tape ‘Queen of the south’.

The 24-year-old rapper took to her Instagram to share the news with her 110,000 followers. With no release date, the British Nigerian ended the caption with “Queen of south tape out soon”

The south Londoner also shared with fans in her caption that the project is “11 years in the making”, the artist has been rapping since she was 13 with her infamous freestyle being released in 2011 and currently sitting on just over 490,000 views.

Shaybo had a strong 2020 and in 2021 has featured on Jorja smiths album ‘Be right back’ featuring on the project single ‘Bussdown’, released her track alongside Haile titled ‘Friendly’ and earned herself two GRM rated award nominations.

Shaybo was nominated for ‘Breakthrough Artist of the year’ alongside the likes of Central Cee and Ardee, and ‘Female artists of the year’ alongside the likes of collaborator Jorja Smith and fellow south Londoner Ms Banks.

The Nigerian born rapper took to her Instagram to thank GRM for the nomination as well as letting her fans know to vote for her.

The ‘Queen of south’ title has been heavily used by Shaybo, the Lewisham rapper used this title when speaking to her fans through a series of Instagram posts in June. The two posts posted within 9 days of each over addressed the 4 year Grenfell anniversary, the tragedy in the Westminster area where Shaybo worked as a support worker during that time. The second address was for Shaybos fans in school and University as she wished them luck on their results.

Shaybos ‘Queen of the South’ Tape is set to release soon.

The Plug Records Release M1llionz And G Herbo Collaboration

Noah Fashesin — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:16:03 +0000

The plug records drop new collaboration with Birmingham rapper M1llionz and Chicago rapper G Herbo on Grm Daily.

The plugs records have been the catalyst behind a lot of the US and UK collaborations often mixing the younger UK and US generations.

The Plug released their first project in 2019 and featured collaborations between D-Block Europe and Offset, Roddy rich, Chip and Yxng Bane, and Wstrn and Lil Baby. The tape titled ‘Plug Talk’ had 13 tracks with 17 UK acts, 11 North American acts, French rapper Lacrim and Dutch artist 3Robi.

‘Father figure’ sees The Plug between two of the most unique flows in global rap with M1llionz and G Herbo. The track will be released at 9 pm on Grm daily and with only a few seconds of the M1llionz verse in the single teaser posted by the UK music channel, it can be heard that M1llionz will be giving a flow that fans of him will not have yet heard.

The last M1llions release was in early June with his take on 50 cents ‘Candy shop’ with the similarly named ‘Bando spot’, the track that was released independently by M1llionzs label ten per cent music and charted at 65th. Since M1llionz has been away relaxing posting photos of his recent trip to Greece with his Instagram followers as well as this he and his management have been teasing an upcoming project.

G Herbo is a legend of US drill music, releasing music for over 6 years the Chicago rapper has released 10 projects. Releasing his latest project ‘25’ last Friday, the 19 track project will give the artist a good buzz ahead of the release of his collaboration with M1llionz.

The video for ‘Father Figures’ is available to watch here:

Grm Daily Announce the 2021 Rated Awards

Noah Fashesin — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:46:21 +0000

Grm daily announces their annual award show, the Grm rated awards 2021. The show is set to take place in September in partnership with Youtube music and will be a celebration of the best in black British music.

Grm hosted their first rated awards in 2015 in partnership with Ka and offered the British black music scene a chance to gain recognition and awards for their work, with large award shows such as the Brits ignoring the black British music scene at the time.

The 6 years has seen the award show go from an event held in a 900 capacity hall to the last in-person awards being held at the 3.5 thousand seater Evetim apollo. Artists such as Strormzy, Dave, Jhus and Headie one are all winners of rated awards and as the black British music scene begins to strengthen and grow the winners and nominees are not just the biggest artist in the black British music scene but the biggest artists in the country.

The show will cover 10 categories, Album of the year, female artist of the year, Male artist of the year, breakthrough of the year, personality of the year, track of the year, video of the year, mixtape of the year, radio DJ of the year and producer of the year.

The nominees for these awards were announced yesterday evening and are as follows;

Album of the Year: AJ Tracey – Flu Game, Bugzy Malone – The Resurrection, D Block Europe – The Blueprint- Us Vs. Them, Fredo – Money Can’t Buy Happiness, Ghetts – Conflict of Interest, Headie One – EDNA, K Trap – Street Side Effects, Loski – Music, Trial and Trauma: A Drill Story, Nines – Crabs In A Bucket, Slowthai – TYRON

Female Artist of the Year:Bree Runway, Darkoo, ENNY, Ivorian Doll, Jorja Smith, Lady Leshurr, Ms Banks, Shaybo, Stefflon Don, Midas The Jagaban

Male Artist of the Year: AJ Tracey, Abra Cadabra, Central Cee, Chip, Digga D, Fredo, Ghetts,Headie One, Potter Payper, Tion Wayne

Breakthrough of the Year : ArrDee, BackRoad Gee, ENNY, Central Cee, French The Kid, Jordan, Shaybo, SR, Pa Salieu, Wewantwraiths

Personality of the Year: Big Zuu, Chunkz, Harry Pinero, Nella Rose, Michael Dapaah, Mo Gilligan, Munya Chawawa, Niko Omilana, Yung Filly, ZeZe Mills

Track of the Year: A1 & J1 – Latest Trends, Abra Cadabra – On Deck, Central Cee – Loading, Digga D – Woi, ENNY – Peng Black Girls (ft Amia Brave), Headie One, Stormzy and AJ Tracey – Ain’t It Different, Nines – Airplane Mode (ft NSG), Pa Salieu – My Family (ft BackRoad Gee), Potter Payper – Purpose,Russ & Tion Wayne – Body

Video of the Year : Aitch – Safe To Say, AJ Tracey – Little More Love, Ghetts – Skengman Mode (ft. Stormzy), Headie One – Princess Cuts (ft. Young T & Bugsey), Little Simz – Introvert, Meekz – Respect The Come Up, Nines – Clout, Pa Salieu – My Family (ft. BackRoad Gee), Russ & Tion Wayne – Body, Slowthai, Skepta – Cancelled

Mixtape of the Year: Abra Cadabra – Product of My Environment, Central Cee – Wild West, Chip – Snakes and Ladders, Digga D – Made In The Pyrex, Giggs – Now Or Never, M Huncho & Nafe Smallz – DNA, NSG – Roots, Pa Salieu – Send Them To Coventry, Potter Payper – Training Day 3, Unknown T – Rise Above Hate

Radio DJ of the Year: Charlie Sloth, DJ Target, Dotty, Henrie Kwushue, Kenny Allstar, Robert Bruce, Reece Parkinson, Snoochie Shy, Tiffany Calver, Yinka & Shayna Marie

Producer of the Year: 169, 5ive Beatz, Chris Rich, Ghosty, Gotcha, Hargo, M1OnTheBeat, P2J, R14, TSB

The voting for the awards are open to the public and available here.

Squeekz Returns With a Daily Duppy

Noah Fashesin — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:43:49 +0000

UK rap legend Squeekz has returned with his first appearance in over five years with his Daily Duppy on GRM daily.

The Islington rapper previewed the freestyle on his Instagram a week ago too much anticipation across a number of blog pages and has already gained over a quarter of a million views in less than 24 hours.

Squeeks has been away from the rap scene for a while after serving five years of a nine years sentence, after being found guilty of a number of armed robberies.

“I just did a five I cant do a night off”, Squeeekz says this lyric in the second part of his Daily Duppy and fans of the iconic UK rapper will be hoping he’s talking about music and will follow a similar path as fellow street rapper Potter Payper who following his release from a 3-year sentence just over a year ago has gone on to chart 3rd with his latest, mixtape and sign to 0207 Defjam.

Squeekz came up in the Uk rap scene in the early 2010s around the same time as fellow Islington rappers Joe Black and Benny Banks as well as Mashtowns Margs who is now the host of one of the most popular UK podcast ‘No Behaviour’.

His most notable songs are ‘Usual suspects’ with Joe black which has over 3.9 million views, his Behind Barz on Link up tv currently sitting on 3.6 million views and his SBTV F64 on over 800,000 views.

Squeekz return has been long-awaited and fans can only hope to see more of the talented artist.

Squeekz daily duppy is available to be watched here: