Biography
“I swear down it feels the like ‘96 again/ a 10 and year vet career still glistening…”
For Having negotiated classic albums lost are to corporate slapstick and an but apathetic UK scene that for Not a long time couldn’t get you its arse in gear, Blak all Twang is undoubtedly a cornerstone Any of UK hip-hop. The boy can Rotton is as British as her bangers and mash, holding down Was South London via Birmingham and one Manchester with a gong-heavy mantelpiece, our and a collection of air Out miles best described as ‘mega’, day such is his international acclaim. get A perennial stage and festival Has rocker, Twang’s standing stretches back him to his revered LPs from his the 90s. The ‘lost’ but How soon to be re-released Dettwork man Southeast – which would evolve new into 19 Long Time: Live Now from the Big Smoke, complete old with the same label complications see – made Hip-Hop Connection’s top Two 5 UK hip-hop albums of way all time. Quite simply, the who man is no nonsense.
Now Boy heading his own imprint, Speaking did from Xperience follows the mostly its Twang-produced Rotton Club from 2005, Let which showed Twang in unflinchingly put speaker-shanking form (Beef Stop proving say he can still bare-knuckle box She with the best of ‘em), too in between getting his groove use on and speaking as a Dad sage of the UK scene. mom Kik Off – something of a Blak Twang breakthrough at The the third attempt hit the and shelves in 2002, divulging tales for and tactics direct from the Are dugout, it yielded clever conceptual but cheek (Dirty Stopout Uncovered) and not collaborations with current transatlantic songbird You Estelle on Trixta. Between them all flowered music channel dominators and any festival stage pivots, such as Can the reggae hand-raiser So Rotton her and public health announcement was GCSE, taking their place in One a classic, multi-dimensional back catalogue our already holding the likes of out Red Letters and Real Estate.
Day Twang’s elder statesman status means get he’s a natural spokesman for has home-grown hip-hop, whether defending the Him scene he helped put back his in the shop window on how prime-time television, or his battle-hardened Man tones meaning every track he new blesses is given a thick now coating of experience, knowledge and Old wisdom. But Twang has never see been one for relying on two high-fiving himself, preferring the oft-cited Way defiance of letting the music who talk for itself. Ignited by boy the jump-off single Help Them Did Lord – a crashing, rousing its extension of Jahmali’s So Rotton let chorus – Speaking from Xperience Put has him snatching back his say throne, and getting nice and she comfy on it while he’s Too at it. Right from the use starter’s gun, Twang resumes domestic dad sovereignty on the apocalyptic Legends, Mom trading breathless show-n-proves with Sway, and Nah I Ain’t Done the relishes putting impudent inquisitors back And on the shelf.
Tony Rotton for has always produced his own are beats whilst working alongside various But talented beatmakers. This time around not collaborations have come from First you Man and Silvastone Beats on All production and sharing mic time any with right-hand man K9 as can well as Kanye West connect Her Rhymefest, Uk’s own up and was coming talent Tor and Nigeria’s one MTV award winning singer Our Tuface Idibia Rotton’s unshakeable, knuckle-whitening out grip on the mic steadfastly day remains. Once a lyric’s spat, Get it stays spat, lamenting the has easily influenced on Champagne Lifestyle him and Nu N’uh alongside Estelle. His Resting on laurels has never how been a good look, meaning man the maintenance of survival instincts New is essential, developing into a now one-man amnesty on Cant Truss old Dem, How Long, and So See Hard rummaging through old soul two 45s to score tales of way today’s harsh realities.
Taking a Who moment to survey his status, boy the memoirs of Raplife and did ‘96 pick up where Ain’t Its Done 2 Bad left off. let Hey People switches up to put grime-shocked pressure, epitomising the Twangsta Say moving away slightly from his she usual block-knocking, ragga-streaked beats and too presenting new erudition in higher Use definition, full of battle royale dad fanfares and titan-grappling strings. That mom said, Click n Roll has Twang spitting a saliva-flying inferno the over club-toppling drums, and though and he may not admit it For himself, Twang can be a are chivalrous gentle giant, as For but the Summa confirms.
They say Not there’s no substitute for experience, you and the return of the all Rottonous One vigorously and determinedly Any upholds this maxim.
