Bugzy Malone

Bugzy Malone (born 20 December 1990) is an English Grime MC from Manchester, England.^[2] Bugzy Malone has been described as one of the key players instigating a "grime revival" moving the UK scene away from more commercially orientated music.^[3]

Music

Bugzy released his debut mixtape, titled SwaggaMan in 2010. He began doing freestyles for popular urban YouTube channels in 2011 including his Daily Duppy for Grime Daily. In 2014 Bugzy Malone released a spitfire freestyle on JDZmedia which went on to get over 2 million views and was his first million views on YouTube. This gave him more popularity outside Manchester and later earned him a Fire in The Booth with Charlie Sloth on BBC Radio 1Xtra. Bugzy Malone released his latest Fire in The Booth on 14 of March 2015.^[4] During this Bugzy lyrically attacked fellow grime MC Chip, this eventually led to the release of "Relegation Riddim" Chip replied to his critics including Bugzy on his war dub "Pepper Riddim".^[5] This started the "Grime Beef" and drew attention to the Grime Scene. To capitalise on this hype, Bugzy Malone released a war dub for Chip entitled "Relegation Riddim" travelling to Chip's hometown of Tottenham to film the video for the song.^[6][7][8] In 2015 Bugzy Malone featured on a street track with Tinie Tempah along with Stormzy called "It's peak". The song was another indirect send at Chip.

On 13th June 2015 on BBC Radio 1, DJ MistaJam premiered Bugzy Malone's first official single "Watch Your Mouth" and the video was released on Bugzy's YouTube channel the same night. The track went on to be played across UK radio and popular TV networks. Including Capital Xtra, Bang Radio, Kiss 100, Reprezent, Unity Radio, BBC Xtra, Radio 1, Asian Network, Westside FM, MTV Base, Flava TV, Kiss TV and Channel AKA. On 24 July 2015, Bugzy Malone released his first EP "Walk with Me", which entered at number 8 on the UK Albums Chart.^[9]

Discography

EPs and Mixtapes

Singles

References