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Vice (Of Micrippers & Streetsoul Productions)

Roll up for the newest MC in the smokey city!

About Me

VICE - TALES OF A STREET POET RELEASED JULY 2006 - out now - Please buy your copy now. The CD is £8(+P&P - £2.00 for UK , please email [email protected] if you are unsure of postage costs) THANK YOUcheck out www.v-i-c-e.com and please visit the forum nullI'm Vice aka Vicious Integrated City Environment. An MC from Birmingham with a true passion for Hip Hop. I have been MCing (properly!)since 1999, and since then I have been concentrating on honing my skills and truely understanding the art and background of rapping and hip hop. I was part of the Micrippers crew, who formmed in Lincoln, UK in 2002. The crew consisted of Halo, Geo-Graphic, JD Sykex, Venom, Supreme Ila and an ever growing extended family. The crew are working on solo joints for a while but hoping to get back together soon. I have finished my first album, entitled Visions, however I am holding it back for a while to create a mix cd called "Tales Of A Street Poet". This entails all the styles i've been trying out recently, and various collaborations, both beatsmiths and lyricists. I am working on promoting myself. Sportmonkey recently created a website that i'm really proud of - www.v-i-c-e.com - I am working on creating my own record label called Streetsoul Productions, aswell as working with hhbradio.com and the artists attached to the site. I have been liasing recently with Jamie of Baby-knotted films, the brilliantly unique combination of the innovative hip hop producer Baby J and jamie, an extremely talented young music video producer. I was formerly a writer in Undercover magazine, which is currently taking a sabatical to find new representation. Hopefully a friend of mine - El-Point Man, aka The Weasel, an amzing Dj who hails from Manchester and now resides in my home town of brum will be creating a remix ep of my album.I guess, after all's said and done, I just want to leave my own mark on Hip Hop, I don't claim to be great, I am simply attempting to create original music with varying lyrical styles and sounds. If one person in 50 years time says "i wana hear that classic vice joint!" then my work is complete!On the real though, my inspirations include my beautiful girlfriend Erin, who without her I never would have stayed motivated and pushed forward, my mum, who has always had undeniable faith and belief in me no matter what i want to achieve, and Halo, my biggest rhyming influence, who gave me the confidence to get my lyrics heard and put me on the early Mic-rippers joints. My friend Nathan who is overseas in China doing the teaching biz at the moment, Im proud of him. Furthermore, Akin, along with Nathan, have looked after me through everything that has happened to me and treat me as their brother. Everyone i know and everything I have done influences me, so hopefully I will be able to continue to push forward with this.check out www.v-i-c-e.com
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/8/2006
Band Website: v-i-c-e.com
Band Members: Vice - MC / Producer
Influences: MC's & Groups--Halo , Akrobatik , Talib Kweli, Blade, Mos Def, Cunnin' Lynguists, Common, Skinnyman, TY, Roots Manuva, Raw Poetic , Guru , Skillz, Buckshot..... / / / /Producers- Baby J, DJ Premier, K-No, 9th Wonder, Hi-Tek , Emmanuel , K.Murdock.....

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Sounds Like:MCs - Ethics and style wise - Blade, Casual, Common, Elzhi - Of Slum Village, Jin, Mos Def, Masta Ace, Talib Kweli, TY, //// Producers - Ethics and style wise - 9th Wonder, DJ Vadim, Guru, Illmind, J.Rawls, K-No - Of Cunninlynguists, Large Professor, Rise.
Record Label: Streetsoul Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Inspiration

GO TO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcF89gH0ot0It's finally here!The video was initially shot in November, but now, after a long wait, which was well worth it, Vice's debut video to promote "The Ta...
Posted by Vice (Of Micrippers & Streetsoul Productions) on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:01:00 PST

Updates

WELL!This was intended to be a little shout to let you guys know that Ipswich based MC Remedy has signed to Streetsoul Productions , HOWEVER! Theres another addition to the team.Once again some Ipswic...
Posted by Vice (Of Micrippers & Streetsoul Productions) on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:49:00 PST

Streetsoul Updates for October

Streetsoul Updates Hey,As ever things are progressing in the Streetsoul camp, so we just wanted to keep y'all in the loop as to the state of the artists, so!-VICE-Is set to do a video s...
Posted by Vice (Of Micrippers & Streetsoul Productions) on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 05:35:00 PST

Life since we last spoke!

Hey people Just a little blog to say whats been going on in the life of vice! My self and my girlfriend have bought a house in the sticks which is now being abused with the sounds of cubase! (i forwar...
Posted by Vice (Of Micrippers & Streetsoul Productions) on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 05:37:00 PST

JD Sykex Mix CD Is Coming!!!!

JD Sykex of The Micrippers and now Streetsoul Productions Is currently working on a mix cd to be released under the independant record label - Streetsoul. JD has a unique style that incorporates a v...
Posted by Vice (Of Micrippers & Streetsoul Productions) on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:49:00 PST

Damn - RIP DJ Swing

This blog is looking like a rememberance page. But for real it seems like all the true soldiers and cornerstones of our music community are vanishing before us. First off,  J-Dilla , thats just w...
Posted by Vice (Of Micrippers & Streetsoul Productions) on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:29:00 PST

RIP Lynden David Hall and J.Dilla

It almost seems ironic that two musical legends who undoubtably changed the game and the blessed the lives of so many people would die within 5 days of each other. Although they honed skills in differ...
Posted by Vice (Of Micrippers & Streetsoul Productions) on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:11:00 PST

Tales Of Street Poet Mix CD

I am currently creating a mix CD called "Tales Of A Street Poet". The CD will consist of a variety of tracks, ranging from joints on my debut album "Visions", aswell as introductions to artists I am c...
Posted by Vice (Of Micrippers & Streetsoul Productions) on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:49:00 PST