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Kelz has been an emcee since the tender age of eleven and stands for street poetics. In the late eighties, he hooked up with Bristol based renowned dub duo and in 1987. Smith and Mighty were formed.Kelz featured on classic hits such as: Walk on, Anyone, The Seeds, and many more. With Smith and Mighty Kelz toured the world, including Tokyo Japan, Europe, Hollywood L.A (performing in front of guests such as Hugh Hefner and Wesley Snipes), Paris, Munich, Montreal Music festival, The Miami Music conference, Chytown (Chicago), NYC, Glastonbury festival, Womad festival, Southport Soul Weekender...
Through Smith and Mighty, Kelz hooked up with Dj Lynx, MC Chrissy Chris forming the Bristolian Hiphop crew - 3 PM in '88. We were together recording, releasing and touring until 1997, supporting the likes of: De La Soul,Tim Dog,London Posse amongst others. After performing alongside London Posse in The Africa Centre in Newcastle in 1992, 3PM gained a good releationship with London Posse culminating in creating and exposing the growing Hiphop scene in Bristol, with tracks such as Better late than Never (making it into Hiphop Connections 100 greatest UK rap tracks of all time). 'Coming equip', featured on an early Hiphop compilation; The United flavours of British rap, Coming equip: Featuring Blak Twang, London Posse, Gunshot, Krispy 3, Marksman, Cash Crew and many other UK hiphop pioneers. 3PM were consistently on Galaxy radio with a weekly Hiphop show called the 3PM experience. Towards the later days of 3PM, Kelz was spending alot of time in Europe - mainly Amsterdam making Hiphop, with a producer called Exactly.
In 1997, Kelz hooked up with producer Longlastin working on various projects including; Future radio, a compilation of Bristol artists and the highly acclaimed classic Bristol Chronicles which dropped in 2001, (reviewed in NME, DJ magazine, HHC (issue 157).
2003 saw Kelz link up with Trz - and The Souljah Clique projects were born. The Souljah Clique name was based on a poem written by Kelz and was the first recording between Kelz and Trz. The first official release for the Souljah Clique was the L.P Unsigned Heroez - featuring Rodney P, Sirplus, Oshin (57th dynasty), K'ners and CLG. A video was made by Oshin for Stand Tall, which emphasises the positivity behind Kelz's music. The Stand Tall video was featured alongside Immortal Technique on the Independent Hype Volume 3 DVD, which covered Hiphop scenes on both sides of the pond. To stay true to the ethos of getting the music to the people, The Souljah Clique released The first of the Baggamics series of mixtapes, representing Bristol talent. Baggamics 2 followed up on this concept and dropped in 2005, to critical acclaim from the music press. The Souljah Clique have also featured on various mixtapes such as Uk runnings, The sickness mix-tapes and dark & Cold volumes 1 and 2.
2007 PRESS RELEASE
“INCREASE THE PEACE” PRESENTED BY KELZ
The Increase the Peace album is intended to raise awareness of violence, anti-social behaviour; gun and knife crime in the community. It is a collaboration of emcees, singers, DJ’s and poets who have gladly given their services to support this message to Increase the Peace.“Embrace your anger with love, I know it’s hard… Mistakes usually make themselves present at the start. I strive to be a peaceful man and take away the pain, With poets, singers and real beginners who all have a story to tell, So Increase the Peace, let love never cease, from your host peeps… Uncle Kelz”The album began as a concept to raise awareness in the community by producing a weapon amnesty album without glamourising the kind of weapons used. ‘Increase the Peace’ is an affirmation to the usual gun amnesty projects you’ve heard of in the past and hopefully will have a positive impact on the whole community and all of those who listen.Increase the Peace features an array of unsigned artists hosted by Kelz including: Trz, Infz, CLG, Terminal, Sirplus, Rudy Lee, Relly, Turroe, Sausa, Balance, Sanchez Di Beige, Shade, Social Conscience and many more.Funded by UnLtd, this album is aimed at breaking down stereo types, increasing awareness of crime in the community and creating positive solutions as opposed to the negative clichés rap music usually provides.
"Bristol's veteran street poet...In Britain's old skool Kelz is at least a Prefect, Damn rudeboy, should probably even be House Captain of the whole south west." James MacNally, HIP HOP CONNECTIONS magazine - 2/2/2002
THE SOULJAH CLIQUE
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