SBX crew member Bitter Belief first started writing poems at the young age of 13. In time with his love for writing combined with his love for hip hop it evolved from poems to rhymes. Recording over downloaded instrumentals with very basic cheap equipment Bitter B put his head down and got to work recording at least a track a day for the next few years to come.
At the age of 17 he was signed to an independant label but left two years later to continue his journey alone. After leaving the label Bitter put out a series of mixtapes and later released his debut album Isolation in 2010. He has since put out The Tour Guide Mixtape, which was the lead up to his next album which is titled The Gallery, coming early 2013.
The first leak we’ve seen from The Gallery, comes in the form of The Circus. Produced by Creed Birch, the track is currently sitting at number 1 on the triple j Unearthed Hip Hop charts. You can pick up the The Circus for free download below.
After a short absence from touring, he’s back on the road, we’ve got the Downsyde and SBX general himself headlining the upcoming show with his solo project Optamus, backing him up is Obese Records latest distro signee launching his debut album The Sampler – Mr Grevis!!!
No stranger to Adelaide after extensive touring with Drapht, is Bitter Belief, he’ll be dropping tracks off his last mixtape The Tourguide and also drop some sneak peaks from the up coming album The Gallery, which is set to do some big things. Holding down the decks for nearly everybody on this night, is the widely respected Dj/Producer Rob Shaker.
First time in Adelaide for WA’s current number 1 producer Creed Birch and the last cat from WA to grace the stage with tracks from his debut album One Of A Kind is veteran MC Adam Crook!!! Special mention needs to go out to our very special friend, hometown king K21, who will also be doing his thing on stage with tracks from his recently released LP Single Minded Civilian. This all goes down Friday, Oct 19, @Higher Ground – Tickets $10 get there.
Kings Gambit is an independent MC hailing from Melbourne, having just released The Gambit EP. Featuring 6 raw tracks with production from Creed Birch, Eddy Extract, Dazastah, Chris Labs & Normalz, this ‘name your price‘ digital album is well worth the pick up.
Stoned Cutters handle the all the cuts on the EP, with additional guitar by Eden Telea and James Gray (One Of A Million). Hard copies of the EP are available, you can pick up one of those where payment is for shipping costs only. You can grab one of those form the Kings Gambit Bandcamp page here.
It’s been a long road leading to the release of a debut album for Garry McPhee – or Mr. Grevis, as you most likely know him. The MC has been freestyling since 16 purely for the love of it, but up until recently chose not to release any of the verses he has been spitting.
The change of heart seems to have been a good one. His first track The Youth skyrocketed to the top of the triple j Unearthed chart where it continued to take the number one spot for several weeks. (Tunes So High and Sunday Struggle also featured.) The Youth, remarkably, was written in only an hour and a half, after Grevis was shocked by young workers in the Pilbra who refused to respect the Remembrance Day minute of silence. The accusatory lyrics are layered over a melancholy beat by Pauly P, taking aim at the attitude of young people today, and the society that raised them.
A friendship with hip hop heavyweight Drapht – who gave him his first mic – along with beats from such talented producers as Dazastah, Rob Shaker and Trials, definitely hasn’t hurt the calibre of Mr. Grevis’s work. But it is primarily his ability to combine strong thematic lyrics with a catchy chorus that has brought the Perth rapper his recent success.
The strong support of the hip hop community as well as an uprising of new fans has helped Mr. Grevis become more confident in his music, with the work for his second album begun even before the first one has dropped.
The release date for debut album The Sampler has been tentatively set for June. Keep an ear out especially for what is sure to be one of its more popular songs, the Drinking Game, which requires listeners to down a tequila shot or jaegar bomb whenever the song commands them. You can expect the name Mr. Grevis to become synonymous with messy nights in the near future.
Drift Away featuring Melbourne soul singer Jess Harlen (of Obese Records subsidiary label Plethora Records), is the first single from Perth based Mr Grevis’s upcoming album The Sampler. With production by young Western Australian producer Creed Birch, the beat is chilled and soulful, ridden with piano riffs. The track is designed to take one’s mind of all the dramas in life, by instead putting everything in perspective. A promising new artist, Mr Grevis has an exceptional knack for captivating and relatable storytelling.
