Producer Mark B and MC Blade hail from South London, UK. Their debut, The U… Read Full Bio ↴Producer Mark B and MC Blade hail from South London, UK. Their debut, The Unknown is a concept album (without arty pretensions) aiming to celebrate home-grown hip-hop.
Conceived as a call to arms, Mark B and Blade's collaboration deserve plaudits outside US comparison. Alongside, Big Dada's Gamma they have mounted a rap attack on hip-hop's dumbed-down status quo with an album that is lyrically and sonically superb. Although the subject matter may be monotonous for most (the under-appreciation of UK hip-hop), the delivery certainly is not.
Though elderly (in UK hip-hop terms), Blade's baritone breath control is timeless. He rhymes with a furrowed brow straight across battle-scarred lines, assaulting conformists on "From The Wordlab" or criticising the music industry's predilection for fads on "Ya Don't See The Signs".
The ever-prolific Mark B profits from eccentricity; for him all music from Polish folk music to Elmer Bernstein-style brass is relevant. His desire to search and utilise the ultimate but strangest breaks marks him out as an innovative talent who can produce world-class state of the art hip-hop.
Listening to their signature tunes, The Unknown is an affirmation of this: Blade is the everyman tripped up by life's ups and downs, chasing his demons and flitting in and out of reveries. Instead of providing a melody that stinks of dank basement isolation in the manner of such arch-miserabilists as Company Flow, Mark B provides a tidal wave of sublime funk and choppy beats and he does it over and over again. The Unknown is a great album that proves (again) that quality UK hip-hop is not a contradiction in terms.
originally by Maxine Kabuubi, taken from: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mark-B/dp/B00005JI7N
Conceived as a call to arms, Mark B and Blade's collaboration deserve plaudits outside US comparison. Alongside, Big Dada's Gamma they have mounted a rap attack on hip-hop's dumbed-down status quo with an album that is lyrically and sonically superb. Although the subject matter may be monotonous for most (the under-appreciation of UK hip-hop), the delivery certainly is not.
Though elderly (in UK hip-hop terms), Blade's baritone breath control is timeless. He rhymes with a furrowed brow straight across battle-scarred lines, assaulting conformists on "From The Wordlab" or criticising the music industry's predilection for fads on "Ya Don't See The Signs".
The ever-prolific Mark B profits from eccentricity; for him all music from Polish folk music to Elmer Bernstein-style brass is relevant. His desire to search and utilise the ultimate but strangest breaks marks him out as an innovative talent who can produce world-class state of the art hip-hop.
Listening to their signature tunes, The Unknown is an affirmation of this: Blade is the everyman tripped up by life's ups and downs, chasing his demons and flitting in and out of reveries. Instead of providing a melody that stinks of dank basement isolation in the manner of such arch-miserabilists as Company Flow, Mark B provides a tidal wave of sublime funk and choppy beats and he does it over and over again. The Unknown is a great album that proves (again) that quality UK hip-hop is not a contradiction in terms.
originally by Maxine Kabuubi, taken from: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mark-B/dp/B00005JI7N
More Genres
No Artists Found
More Artists
Load All
No Albums Found
More Albums
Load All
No Tracks Found
Genre not found
Artist not found
Album not found
Search results not found
Song not found
The Unknown
Mark B & Blade Lyrics
24 Hours We communicated with fans and drew diagrams Rapped to live …
Back in the Day [scratching] What do you think of that? Have you anything e…
Bad Day I take my brain out of my skull each night…
Building a Rep Begin the demolition, gaining the recognition Whatever the …
From the Wordlab While you party your ass off we work our ass…
One Shark One Piranha It's gonna take the force of the devil to hold…
Right Here Right Now And all of this without making a pact with the…
The Unknown We are the unknown. Sometimes it feels like im chasing dime…
Ya Don't See The Signs Will I be rated as one of the greatest rappers…
We also have lyrics for these tracks by Mark B:
The Unknown We are the unknown. Sometimes it feels like im chasing dimes…