Drastic
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Drastic is a hip-hop artist/producer who hails from South Bermondsey, South East London, United Kingdom. Best known for his hit videos My Ends (No.2 2004 Channel U Most Requested Video) and My Ends Remix feat. Juvenile & Shadie and Baby Blue (both taken from his 2005 release Upward/Forward : The Mixtape Vol. 01), Drastic has also produced a large body of work that consists of collaborations with and production/remix credits for the likes of Alicia Keys, Nas, Asher D, Kele Le Roc, Face of So Solid, Harry Brooks, 3LW, MC Romeo, Flirta D, SWV, G.Kid of Unorthodox, Juvenile & Shadie, Crazy Titch, eXodus, and Clueless.
Born in the early eighties in East London, he moved with his single-parent father south of the river at the age of four. Eventually, home was to become South Bermondsey, a small working-class section of town which runs as the dividing line between the Green and Blue Boroughs of Southwark and Lewisham respectively.
After flirting with aspirations of becoming a comic-book artist, Drastic began on his musical journey after realising academia and a 9 to 5 were not what he aspired to. Always a rhythmic youngster, he became captivated by the sound of the hip-hop music which was prevalent in his social circle, and realizing he would be able to capitalize on his growing, book-schooled vocabulary, an artist was born, a hip-hop artist. Although he was sheepish at first, a junior stage show would provide a young Drastic with his first taste of performance. Performing over a beat he looped up with a double cassette deck and some headphones, he put some basic rhymes together and from there, the seed was planted.
