Riz MC - playing with Massive Attack

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Member Since: 12/29/2005
Band Website: this is it
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-- MTV Base - The Lick with Trevor Nelson....

MTV 'About2Blow' - Riz MC

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MTV Base & RWD Magazine - 'About to Blow'

“in the process of refreshing both the UK’s acting and music industry...we know Riz MC is About to Blow, it's just a matter of when...” - RWD Magazine

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"potential voice of a generation material" - The Guardian Guide

DJ Mag
['Radar' review]
“stupendous…just as street smart as book smart…the money shot by a country mile…essential” 5/5

Get Cape Wear Cape Fly:
“Musically he expertly mixes political satire, social commentary and smart analysis to a mixture of electronica and orchestration”

Scroobius Pip:
"Riz has the ability to effortlessly get a point across whilst maintaining a vibrant, uptempo sound"

Nitin Sawhney:
“He has something to say and is very versatile. A real talent.”

Akala:
“fucking amazing”

Sway:
“Love the EP. Lyrically he’s really saying something, and these days that very rare”

….Aside from rocking various stages to rave reviews in three cities [in the US this Spring], he also left behind a bombastic five-song EP, Confirm/Ignore, that's as refreshing and jarring as anything to be released this year….His wordplay challenges authority, pisses at conformity, and confronts issues of race and class unlike any rapper in the States, period.
- The New Times, Florida

Channel4.com
“His songs are explosive, lyrically driven descriptions of modern life. Riz pokes at social and political ills, as he puts it, "things that piss me off". He'd like us to listen to the words, but if we aren't bopping along and having a laugh, he'll be disappointed.”

Channel4.com interview

Observer interview

New Statesman interview
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TOUCH Magazine - 'On the Rise'

““sick beats and rebellious lyrics......hip hop is either crunk or clever. Riz MC is one of the few that can do both”

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Britz, Channel4

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POST 9/11 BLUES single and music video - on iTunes

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BANNED from MTV and UK radio (see blog), covered in newspapers, TV and Radio news around the world...have you got the POST 9/11 BLUES? Sing a long...

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Live @ Glastonbury BBC Introducing Stage:

"one of the highlights of the whole Glastonbury weekend" - Huw Stephens, Radio1

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BBC Radio live session with Bobby Friction

Influences: mos def, the prodigy, talib kweli, bjork, Gill Scott Heron, Massive Attack, Wu-Tang Clan ’enter the 36 chambers’, Leftfield, Roni Size & Dynamite MC, The Roots, LTJ Bookem & MC Conrad, Erykah Badu, Cinematic Orchestra, Goldie, Nitin Sawhney, Mighty Moe, 4Hero, Shabba D + Skibba Dee, Gilles Peterson Worldwide, Switch, Diplo, Radiohead, Timbalaand, High Contrast, Zero dB, J Dilla, Fourtet, Doves, Curtis Mayfield, Big Punisher, Nas, D.O.C., Dr. Dre + Snoop Doggy Dogg, US hiphop 1992-1996 (and all o that good stuff that used to be on ’the Box’), ROOTS MANUVA

Fabric ’true playaz’ nights, zenith daytimers, movement @ bar rhumba

apocalypse now, the thin red line, the godfather trilogy, BBC News 24 vs. CNN vs. Al Jazeera vs. Fox News vs. NDTV, the inheritance of loss, the autobiography of malcolm x...

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Record Label: Battered Records (own lable)
Type of Label: Indie