I started my love affair with music from a young age. My father was a well known sound man and moved in the same circles as Saxon sound from Lewisham as well as Sir Coxone sound from Brixton. Music was in my blood and I'd listen to and mess about with my Dad's music collection all day long. At aged 12 I joined a sound with my cousin Static called “Youth Man Promotion†run by Earl Minot. This sound was the English branch of Sugar Minot’s sound in Jamaica of the same name. The sound started to build a name for itself on the house party circuit and played at many youth club events and under 18 parties alongside sounds such as Studio Classic (Get Rich Crew) and Hunters (Alan Brando). By the time I turned 14 I was an accomplished host who had the confidence to entertain crowds of all ages.
Once I turned 15 a new music form, jungle, had started to take the streets by storm. I turned my hand to jungle and started to MC. My first club appearance was by accident. There was a popular under 18s club in Kent called Escaliber that youth from Brixton, Peckham and Lewisham would go to every Friday. Ravers were allowed to take it in turns to MC so I thought why not practice some of my bedroom lyrics. I took to the stage and the crowd loved it. The head DJ at the club made me the resident MC every Friday which soon built up a fan base and my street cred. This gave me the confidence to go to the biggest jungle under 18's rave in London “Kool Skool†@ Club EQ and enter the famous MC competition. I won the competition and stood on stage spitting lyrics side by side with Skibadee, Five O and MC Shabba. A cousin of mine from Bristol came to London for the summer holidays and attended the rave with me. He was a young promoter who had hooked up with Bristol’s number one jungle promotion company Jungle Rock to organise an under 18's event called Junior Quake. I asked if I could get involved, after that there was no looking back, a promoter was born. Organising events in Bristol and London I learnt the trade on the under 18’s scene and soon started to branch out in to the over 18's market.
By the time I turned 19 a new music form was taking over, this music was UK Garage. I’d attend all the big raves and was a regular at clubs such as Colliseum. The UK Garage scene was sexy and all about designer labels and champagne so it wasn't long before the younger generation got involved. Crews such as So Solid and Heartless Crew started to take the underground rave scene by storm headlining events all over the country. Myself and long time friend Duke decided to form a crew by the name of N.A.P Syndicate. Managed by Mr Electric and consisting of members DJ Suicide, Lady Iceberg, myself and Duke we went on to be one of the top 4 crews in the garage scene alongside Heartless Crew, So Solid and Pay As You Go. We held down a weekly show Wednesday nights on legal radio station Choice FM with the soon to be godfather of the grime scene Commander B. During the golden years of garage I played at major events such as Sun City, Garage Nation and Garage Fever as well as travelling the world to perform in places such as Aiya Napa, Malia and Ibiza.
In 2003 the garage scene was changing into a harder form of music known as grime. Members of N.A.P got disillusioned with the game and decided to call it a day. Myself and DJ Suicide did not want to stop so we decided to form a younger version of N.A.P and recruit the best MCs from around South London to make a super crew. The first two additions was Brixtons no1 MC, MC Narstie and a young white MC who nobody had heard of called MC L Man. Soon after members such as Solo, Infamous and Oozy joined the crew and the New Age Army (NdoubleA) was formed. The crew known as NdoubleA went on to be and are still known as South London’s No1 crew. I took on the name Chief Executive Officer (c.e.o) and am responsible for the meteoric rise to fame of NdoubleA and its members. I guided them from young talented teenagers into superstars of the grime scene as well as young adults by educating them and teaching them tools of the trade. One of the ways I did this was by organising an under 18s event called Top Boy that was fronted by MC Narstie (South’s Top Boy) and headlined by NdoubleA. The rave Top Boy went on to be UKs no1 under 18s event selling out 4000 capacity venues such as SE1 Night Club in London Bridge. The event Top Boy has now taken place in Bristol, Wolverhampton, Cardiff, Manchester, Leicester and still continues to grow. Not happy with making NdoubleA the no1 crew in South and having the biggest under 18s event in the UK I wanted to increase the promotion behind the crew. The next step was to start a radio station which I did with DJ Suicide called On Top FM 95.5. The Station has now been on air for 3 years and is the number one community station for young Londoners.
During the early days of On Top FM a talented DJ called Kae joined the station and started to make noise on the airwaves and the raves circuit. His show was on a Sunday the same as mine so many a Sunday we’d bump into each other and guest on each others shows. This pulled in even bigger listenership ratings and had On Tops female listeners going crazy for more as they both had a way with the ladies. We soon started to get requests to bring the same vibes we gave on radio to the raves. We decided to make the twosome a permanent fixture and took on the name Top Boyz. We've been together for 2 years playing at numerous events and promoting over 50 events of our own during that time. We are now major players in the over 18s rave circuit and feature at all the top clubs and top events.
