Stylah

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Stylah
Born	Hammersmith, London, England
Origin	London Borough of Greenwich, London, England
Genre(s)	British hip hop
Years active	2003 – present
Label(s)	N/A
Associated acts	Poisonous Poets, AntiSocial Muzik, SO Empire

Stylah is a South East London rapper and describes himself as a black Arab [1]. After being intersested in music for some time, he decided to pursue music seriously. His first offering, 2004's Prince of Thieves which he single handedly sold 9000 copies of on the streets of London and other cities [2] sprung one single called Warfare Part II featuring Serious. He shot a video and released it onto Channel U and many hip-hop sites.

Prince of Thieves caused a huge buzz for Stylah. He was soon recruited as the final piece of the jigsaw for legendary London based underground hip-hop group, the Poisonous Poets which consists of Lowkey, Tony D, Therapist, Doc Brown, Reveal, DJ Snips and Stylah. He is also a member of the international Catch 22 network started by Kool G Rap which includes Immortal Technique, Ruff Ryders producer Elite, Scram Jones, Lowkey, DJ Snips and many more. [3]

Stylah released the mixtape Crash Course with DJ Snips [4] in 2006 and took the same approach as his first CD by selling it straight to the streets with his Street Team including distributor D Raw. This CD is also on sale in HMV and Virgin Megastores. With this mixtape, Stylah has toured up and down the country many times doing shows and promoting his CD. It has had many reviews that have outlined Stylah's ability to better the original songs that he features on. Quotes can be seen on Stylah's Myspace [5]

Mid 2007 saw the release of Dubbs, the mixtape that many were anticipating feauring fellow Poisonous Poet, Lowkey who together form the Arabian Knights. It features the duo's best unreleased songs and some previously heard material which have been re-mixed and added to. It was mixed by DJ Limelight.

[edit] Future

Stylah is scheduled to release his debut album Treading Water in 2008 [6]. He has also featured on many UK songs to create a bigger buzz before the release. He has had many offers by record labels for his album but so far has not signed any deal [7] . Two songs from Treading water have been leaked. Treading Water is one of the UK's most anticipated albums. The UK producer Chemo has confirmed songs on the album, Poisonous Poets DJ, Snips has produced a song called Free, S-Type is said to have produced three tracks on Treading Water. Another song, entitled Them Boys produced by Australia's Styalz Fuego and featuring New York City rapper, Grafh has been confirmed for Treading Water[8]. It seems the first single will be called The Girl Is Mine, featuring Tony D and produced by Sivey. It has been put on radio rotation as of early 2008 and the video was shot on May 18th 2008.

On Stylah's next album Down To Earth he will be working with VIIth Century Records who he has worked on with Palestine: The Album [9].

This quote shows confirmation of the project:

VIIth Century Records sign UK Hip Hop's most wanted mc Stylah. The album will be very different from Stylah's previous projects. For this project under the VIIth Century banner, and working very closely with Blakstone, this prolific lyrcist and wordsmith will deliver a potent political rendition of the issues close to his heart. Scheduled for release October 2007 [[10]]