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Blade Brown and K-Trap are rappers from two different UK Rap generations; Blade Brown has been rapping for well over 10 years and was part of the UK Rap scene in the early 2000s, having made legendary tapes such as Hollowman Meets Blade alongside fellow UK Street rapper and UK legend Giggs. K-Trap on the other hand is part of the new generation who came through with the early UK drill sound having first appeared as a masked rapper in 2014 frequently featuring alongside UK drill pioneers 67. 

K-Trap has been using his social media to tell fans that 2022 will be a big year for him, coming after a 2021 that saw him drop what many fans of UK Rap see as a top 5 project with his mixtape Trapo. The rapper from Gipsy Hill’s last project featured classics such as “Warm” and despite only being a mixtape, it excited fans for what more the rapper may deliver. Blade hasn’t dropped a project since 2019, when he released the fourth part of his mixtape series Bags and Boxes 4.

The duo announced their upcoming joint project at the end of 2021 and left fans excited, with no official release date their new single “6 Figures” is the first single from either artist in nearly 6 months, and will lead fans to believe the tape they are all waiting for is coming soon. 

Their new single “6 Figures” sits on just over 100 thousand views following its release less than 24 hours ago.

The video for “6 Figures” is available to watch here:

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K-trap dropped the track 2 days ago on October the 17th, what would have been Bis’s birthday. Trap posted a clip of the track to his Instagram with the caption “Happy birthday cuz Love you and miss you”.

K-trap has always had a close relationship with the Harlem Spartans with his hometown Gipsy hill being just down the road from the Harlem Spartans hub in Kennington and has dropped multiple tracks alongside each other. The relationship between Trap and Bis was different and much stronger with the pair being cousins.

On Trapos 2020 project, Street side effects, the artist puts a voice note at the end of the opening track “Street side effect”. The voice note is from his late cousin and comes just after the artist shared on the track how it felt losing his little cousin. The voice note is a conversation between the pair about K-traps decision to take off his mask and showed fans the relationship the pair had away from music.

Bis was killed on the 6th December 2019 in Deptford, Southeast London at only age 20. He was a highly regarded rapper in the drill genre and alongside the Harlem Spartans collective helped build the UK drill sound that is so prevalent today. His bar “ Question, If gang pull up are you gonna back your bredrin”, this lyric is regular argued to be one of the best lyrics in drill due to the way it was delivered as well as the popularity of the song.

The lyric comes from his track “Kennington where it started” and featured fellow Harlem member Blanco, Active and Mizormac, the songs original video upload was taken down by police however it was reuploaded in January 2017 on an unknown channel and currently sit on 17 million views. 

Bis and K-traps new single is the pairs first collaboration and it is unknown how many more were recorded before the talented young rapper passed.

“Different” can be listened to here:

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The gipsy hill rappers second mixtape in less than a year will have 15 tracks on and contain 5 features.

The first 3 tracks on the tape will be the only tracks on the tape that have been already released. The tracks are Warm which was released in may and sits on 2.3 million views. The song was a sign to the fans of the South London rapper that he had returned to the old trappo with his drill centred music and balaclava-wearing style.” Pick & mix” was traps most recent single and sits on a quarter of a million views just 1 week after its release. The final track on the project to have already been released is his collaboration with fellow Gipsy Hiller DoRoad for their record “Maths”, which saw the duo going back to back.

Including the previously released DoRoad collaboration K-trap new project will have 3 more songs that will feature 4 artists. The first new feature is track 5 “Ying” featuring PRSAD, these two have never worked together before but the rapper who is affiliated with Brixton’s 67 has appeared in a number of K traps videos and K trap has always had a relationship with 67 having worked alongside them since he made his debut in music in 2016.

Lotto Ash is the next feature appearing on track 7 “Billie Jean”, Lotto Ash is half of the Birmingham duo Lotto Boyz who haven’t released a track since august 2020. Lotto ash has featured alongside M1llionz on his single “How many times” which highlighted Ash’s ability to hold a hook and will feature on M1llionz debut project set to drop later this year.

The final features are Youngs Teflon and previous collaborator DoRoad on track 13 “RRR”. DoRoad inclusion is no shock with the pair both coming from the Central hill estate in Gipsy hill and Ktrap having previously rapped about wanting to get his people to focus on music. Youngs Teflon is a UK rap vet, coming from Brixton he has also had a long-standing relationship with Trap having previously featured alongside each other on “Trapline bling” in 2016 and “Check dis” in 2018.

The remaining tracks are all singles and will be released next Friday. Available to preorder here.

The rapper took to his Instagram to share the news with his quarter of a million Instagram followers, with the caption “Trapo the mixtape 10/09/21”.

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The announcement came with little information, aside from the release date the only other information on the tape comes from the cover art where writing on a cd reads “49 mins recorded at thousand8 studios”. The project announcement comes just 2 weeks after the gipsy hill rapper released a random drop on his youtube, the track titled “Music” saw Trap rapping over an m1onthebeat beat that had put a drill twist on the Billie Eilish song “Ocean eyes” and was recorded at Thousand8 studios.

 

 

 

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K trap more recently dropped his new single “Pick and mix” where the talented drill rapper returned to the mask-wearing appearance that he often wore before his reveal in 2019 on his hit “Big mood”. This single was released on the K-Traps youtube channel and sits on 140,000 thousand views just 3 days after its release and the video heavily advertised for the Thousand 8 studios where Traps new mixtape was recorded.

Trapo comes just nine months after the release of K-Traps debut album Street side effects. The project charted at 26th on its debit on the charts and has gained Trap a Grm rated awards nomination for album of the year.

K-Traps new mixtape Trapo is set to drop on the 10th of September.

Watch the video for his new single “Pick and mix” here:

Blade appeared alongside Posty on the bi-weekly Grm radio show on Apple music to announce the collaboration is in the works, The 36-year-old from Battersea said in his interview with Grm Daily founder Posty that the project “is probably one of the most asked things…me and trap we’re gonna give them that tape”.

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Blade Brown and K-trap are regular collaborators appearing alongside one another on each others projects, away from the music they can often be seen on social media together celebrating successes such as the opening of BXB Ibiza, Blades new private members club, or just celebrating and living in their success.

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Browns last project was released in 2019 when he dropped the 4th release of his legendary ‘Bags and Boxes’ series. K-trap featured on the highest-charting song on that project ‘Joints’ which peaked at 70th on the official chart. The project, in general, came in at 12th sitting 30 places higher than his release prior to this project ‘Bags and boxes 3’. 

K-trap last project release ’Street side effects’ was released at the end of last year and charted at 26th, making it the rappers highest-charting project. Blade featured on the track ‘Probably’ which currently sits on just over 2 million streams.

Since the announcement the two have been teasing fans with clips on social media of them in the studio listening to the upcoming project.

Blade Brown is part of the older generation of UK rap and has been able to keep relevance for well over 10 years, having dropped his first collaboration tape ‘Hollowman meets Blade’ in 2007 alongside UK legend Giggs. While K-Trrap has only been rapping since 2017 his sound and style hold many similarities to the older UK street rap style and is probably why his chemistry and connection with Blade Brown is so strong.

The pair both hail from the Gipsy Hill area in south-east London, similarly to other UK rappers such as Krept and Konan and Mischief as well as artist manager Bouncer, who has managed the likes of Digdat, Hardy Caprio and Kwengface.

The song was teased on the artists Instagram pages on Monday following their Thursday release and had DJs such as Snoochie Shy, and artists like the previously mentioned Krept and Digdat, as well as Rimzee, Berna and Ms Banks in the comments anticipating the release.

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K-Trap is the most prominent of the two artists when it comes to the UK rap scene, having dropped four studio projects since 2017, including his latest release ‘Street side effects’ which charted at no.26 following its release in late 2020. This single saw the return of Ktraps balaclava a staple of the young K-Traps upon his entrance into the drill scene, which only came to an end in June 2019 when the skilled artist took his balaclava off publicly for the first time in his music video for ‘Big Mood’.

DoRoad on the other hand released his first single in 2017 but since then had only released two singles in the following 3 years, ‘S.O.T.S’ in 2019 and ‘Clean-Up’ in 2020. However, it seems in 2021 the talented artist who has one of the most unique rhyming patterns and flows in the UK drill scene has taken note of the success of his long time friend K-Trap and focused more on the music, releasing 3 singles in 2021 and a Freestyle on one of the biggest freestyle platforms in the UK rap scene ‘Plugged in with Fumez’.

K-Trap has referenced the talent of his friend’s and rappers in Gipsy hill throughout his music, and with talents such as DoRoad and Mischief, an artist K-Trap entered the Rap scene with as a regular collaborator, it seems his wish for them to focus on the music may have come true with DoRoads increase output of music.

Maths isn’t the only collaboration between the two, over Instagram live the South London residents have teased multiple tracks.

 

 

 

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Watch the Video to K-Trap and DoRoads new single ‘Maths’ here: