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Debut Album ‘MD’ Officially Released!

A little over 5 years after Percuss and I began rapping together in a tiny spare room at Percuss’s old place, our debut album ‘MD’ is officially released!

It all started when when we were driving around our local area in Perth and Percuss said he was keen to write some raps but didn’t have the motivation to do it alone.

He asked if I would join him, throwing in a few comments about how he “had the Rhythm” and I “had the words” and how it “would work”. Well, I guess he was right!

Within a couple of weeks we were spitting some relatively direction-less rhymes over miscellaneous jacked beats ranging from J Dilla classics to instrumentals from Graphic’s “A Shadow of A Smile”.

It was fun, so we kept going. Continue reading →

Rights & Responsibilities – WA ELECTION EDITION

This one goes out to all those people who wish they didn’t have to vote in the West Australian Senate Election yesterday.

Women risk death to vote in Afghanistan on the same day West Australian's complain about 'having to vote again'.

These women in Afghanistan are PROUDLY risking death, kidnapping, torture and social exclusion to have their say in how their country runs.

Democracy means “People Power”.

The price for having a government which acts in the best interests of it’s citizens is eternal vigilance by those citizens. You can either be a subservient subject of some elite be they a religious elite, royal family or wealthy land owner; or you can choose to be a citizen of a democratic nation. Continue reading →

Rights & Responsibilities ft. MD & Charley Caruso

Introducing the first official single from our debut album:
Rights & Responsibilities (ft. MD & Charley Caruso)

Much of this song came together by chance. We have bought many beats off Mdusu over the years and one day he asked to buy back one of the beats, (generously offering to pay more than he sold it to us for). Instead we came to a different agreement.

Mdusu would exchange the beat for another one we liked and also lay down a verse.

I (Shareef) had found this simple, crisp beat in his collection a long time ago and liked it, but Percuss had knocked it back on at least two occasions. Continue reading →