We are proud present to you 19 year old South London based rapper Startzy, who is fast creating a name for himself on the UK underground music scene and securing the support of industry artists such as Eurogang member Bigz who said that after hearing Startzy’s ‘Woo Riddim Freestyle’ he was considering making a grime track of his own.
Startzy is poised and ready to unleash his brand new mixtape ‘Grime Glide’. A few tracks from the mixtape have already been leaked via Startzy’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/startzyb) and the feedback has been phenomenal, in fact comments on blogs suggest that a lot of Grime fans consider his ‘woo riddim’ cover as one of the best. He will be once again linking up with the most popular youth music channel SB.TV (www.sbtv.co.uk) to work on a video for one of the tracks on the ‘Grime Glide’ mixtape very soon (they previously came together for Startzy’s ‘Normal Wid It’ Track.)
‘The Big S.T.A’ born Shunom Yusuf has had his fair share of experience with the negative side of things that come with living in a high crime environment, in his song titled ‘Life I Was Served’ he states ‘in this hood game of snakes and ladders there’s more snakes than ladders, so very few of us will ever get to escape the madness’. Yet still the aspiring artist thanks his parents for providing him with the proverbial ladder required. Compared to some of his neighbourhood friends he went to a ‘posh’ secondary school and here his eyes were opened to alternative ways of doing things. However this transformation wasn’t instant and to ensure that her son stayed out of as much trouble as possible his mum bought him a microphone and some studio equipment. From this Startzy began to put out tracks for free and recite his lyrics in playgrounds, youth clubs, estates and shopping centres all over London which gained him a strong south London following. Whilst still in secondary school, he sold over 1000 mixtapes completely independently off his own back. The money generated from these sales was then used to shoot his first major music video ‘Up In The Club’. The track instantly became an underground hit and made it onto SKY TV channel ‘AKA’.
Around the same time that this underground hit was creating a buzz Startzy’s mixtape ‘Startz Not Kiddin’ sold out in Uptown Records and got him a digital distribution deal. As a result of this deal and the buzz combined he had a top ten on the hmv.com hip hop single charts.
Three tracks from the Grime Glide mixtape:
Woo Riddim > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMjm6JGwxNc
Three Homos > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtUGib6aUHA
Hood Scenario > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwnol5_z5s
Startzy is poised and ready to unleash his brand new mixtape ‘Grime Glide’. A few tracks from the mixtape have already been leaked via Startzy’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/startzyb) and the feedback has been phenomenal, in fact comments on blogs suggest that a lot of Grime fans consider his ‘woo riddim’ cover as one of the best. He will be once again linking up with the most popular youth music channel SB.TV (www.sbtv.co.uk) to work on a video for one of the tracks on the ‘Grime Glide’ mixtape very soon (they previously came together for Startzy’s ‘Normal Wid It’ Track.)
‘The Big S.T.A’ born Shunom Yusuf has had his fair share of experience with the negative side of things that come with living in a high crime environment, in his song titled ‘Life I Was Served’ he states ‘in this hood game of snakes and ladders there’s more snakes than ladders, so very few of us will ever get to escape the madness’. Yet still the aspiring artist thanks his parents for providing him with the proverbial ladder required. Compared to some of his neighbourhood friends he went to a ‘posh’ secondary school and here his eyes were opened to alternative ways of doing things. However this transformation wasn’t instant and to ensure that her son stayed out of as much trouble as possible his mum bought him a microphone and some studio equipment. From this Startzy began to put out tracks for free and recite his lyrics in playgrounds, youth clubs, estates and shopping centres all over London which gained him a strong south London following. Whilst still in secondary school, he sold over 1000 mixtapes completely independently off his own back. The money generated from these sales was then used to shoot his first major music video ‘Up In The Club’. The track instantly became an underground hit and made it onto SKY TV channel ‘AKA’.
Around the same time that this underground hit was creating a buzz Startzy’s mixtape ‘Startz Not Kiddin’ sold out in Uptown Records and got him a digital distribution deal. As a result of this deal and the buzz combined he had a top ten on the hmv.com hip hop single charts.
Three tracks from the Grime Glide mixtape:
Woo Riddim > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMjm6JGwxNc
Three Homos > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtUGib6aUHA
Hood Scenario > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwnol5_z5s
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