The artists featured today are rapper Artcha, singer Rahel and emcee/singer Lyric L.
Artcha
Click here to listen to a selection of Artcha’s tracks.
Rahel
Click here to listen to a selection of Rahel’s tracks.
Lyric L
Click here to listen to a selection of Lyric L’s tracks.
Your thoughts please…..
Categories: UK Music
MAD NEWS UK 
goood music yet again.. oh i leave quick because i scare people away!!
Artcha is different still, I like his choice of tracks, he’s aiight still… maybe not my cup tea, but I appreciate what he’s doing.
Lyric L has a nice vibe, she comes across as being very open, but (imo) could sit on top off some of the beats better vocally, get right on top of it, flow / delivery in sync with the beat. but I like her for sure!
Rahel – digging her style, real smooth and nice, I’m down with rahel!
Wow is this the best of unsigned black music in the UK?
Interesting.
This must be a hobby/side hustle.
Clearly these acts are unsigned because they are not at the stage musically where they have solid direction coupled with real talent. Plus mediocre, musical outings translates into low-end or no sales.
Why is the math on this so difficult to comprehend?
I can’t help but notice that since the inclusion of UK unsigned hype posts on here not many people comment.. interesting
We Brits complain and bitch that ‘our’ music/artists never
get any exposure, that we are oppressed, but when it comes down to it, we are so conditioned by what we listen to (or are bombarded by) on a daily basis, that we don’t tend to get excited by that which is seen as different.
Or it could just be that the majority of ‘our’ artists are kinda boring –
namely no videos, no excitable hype around them, lacklustre image etc
Now I’m not saying they need to have weird Anglo-American accents and start waving oversized Casio watches at the screen in their videos but for
goodness sakes people, do something to make us interested in you!!
Regular video diaries telling what you are doing (humans are natural voyeurs after all, we like to know what people are up to both socially and with your work!),
SOMETHING!!
@Blessing Monday
I agree that a lot of UK acts do need to work on their image, and need to learn how to create exciteble hype surrounding themselves and their product.
Whether you loved or hated them So Solid succeeded in doing this.
How much support do black artists get from black people? If black people are not interested in black uk music for whatever reason, i am not surprised that they are unsigned.
I am not saying that we have to like whatever is given to us, but generally, black people are known not to be supprtive.
To be honest, I am surprised a little but not surprised at the comments here.
@ Mrs Gump- I appreciate your viewpoint but I truly think that there are two trains of thought on this.
The artists Rahel and Lyric L are worldwide artists who have a mature sound (some would say old and dated)that only ever gets props from US counterparts who are more translantic in their approach to black music anyway. You probably have not heard of King Britt or Junior, labels like Giant Step. Stones Throw or Ubiquity all based in the US. It’s not a diss at all, it’s just how it is. These artists are recognised from an intelligent music crowd who play progressive music that in about 10 years the glitzy viideo all things shiny black crew will be on. This is how it always is. These artists are not trying to be So Solid Jan- another fatal error in thinking that black music can only be validated when tit is popular on Viacom and Clear Channel entertainment. The other error is to believe that black music can only be ‘young’. WTF! I’m 35 -am I not allowed to be targeted to?
This is why there is bear confusion on this thread-near 40 year olds dumbfounded at listening to chart topping black teeny pop and young people getting pissed at hearing a mature soul sound thinking it sounds like their parents music and is therefore retro or dated.
I ain’t looking to be jumping up with the youth dem and my music taste certainly needs to reflect that. When I was younger, the music that is consiedered the staple of quality was being made by, played by and to back people who made the music popular themselves, not waiting for suburban whiteboys with fantasises of ghetto llves and white girls who really want to piss off their fathers.
The best black music has never been given props, we wait for people to die then we get a biog written up, some DJs start sampling and the next thing they were the shit.
I can’t expect everyone to respect this, and I certainly don’t want this to happen to artists in the future but as producer 9th Wonder said to me yesterday (yeah I was priviliged and made up)…”I make life music, not music for a moment”.
When you’re bigging up an artist-ask your self if you can see yourself playing them fondly to your grandchildren and your grandkids getting as much sustenance and pleasure as you did when you first heard them? Ask yourself, if you’re proud to have this association to your rarely admired black culture?
I rarely feel this way with the usual artists that are played up on this site but love the people who chat on it.
I am not saying that the examples of what you have heard are the greatest examples but I have seen both artists live and know that they can hold their own.
It seems that as long as it is polished up in glitz and is regularly spammed, a song would be considered good so I accept that we as promoters need to do more of that and we are which is the good thing. I hate to moan and defend without doing my tiny part so am enthusiastic about the future of (some) black music.
I will upload a mix of tracks for you guys in the next month-cos I am flaky like that..but will def do.x
THERE’S MY DEFENCE…what say the rest of the UK, young old, rich, poor, tall, short, black, white?
There’s plenty of less talented people who have managed to bag signed contracts and have been polished and whatever, cannot write songs or play any instruments, do constant covers even worse than the originals, fast music compared to fast foods especially in britain(guilty for rooting for them though i never buy). Just heard of these artists on mad news, liked some of them, but living in scotland, it might be the last i hear of them, unfortunately.
May be it all comes down to image and hype as pointed out above. But i think they are more talented and different than most. I used to think the uk liked different, like we keep hearing.
@Reclaimin whilst I appreciate that we have a difference in views, I’m thinking: When it comes to music, if some of your gold is indeed my utter rubbish, what does that have to do with intelligence???!?
No two ipod selection is the same. For-the-record, most of my selection has steadily and consistently provided the soundtrack to my life for over 10 years and will easily go on to do another 20! Suggesting that I may have never heard of King Britt, is like suggesting I may have never heard of Digable Planets!?! Errrrr yeah I have, cos my rotation does go a ittle bit beyond Lil Wayne; from Mahalia Jackson to Norman Connor to Fleet Foxes to Leon Ware (Moon Ride is siiiick btw, but he was Rocking You Eternally for over 20yrs already!) to Frank McComb to Teri Walker to ELEW (Eric Lewis) to Silhouette Brown to Hil St Soul to INX the Insomniax (Sarf London’s finest btw) to Yasuko Agawa to Tarsha McMillian-Hamilton to Shaun Escoffery to absolutely whatever is GOOD MUSIC that moves me!
So in years to come if some choose to share with their grandchildren the likes of Lyrical 7 who happens to sound like the shabby-dirt-poor and lost man’s version of Meshell Ndegeochello or maybe I shouldn’t even begin to talk about L7’s Floetry-esque flow which trips and falls terribly – then I guess that makes me an unintelligent listener who has the ability and funds to download a good tune, but frankly didn’t have the patience to watch her break in 10 years time! Oh well. Good luck to her and co with their directionless music that gets co-signed for gigs when the real unsigned and signed talent can’t make it. I’m simply not that big on tribute bands/shows!
One Love.
Well that told me….if that’s the intended purpose.
I am not here to force you to like something, just felt the need to say what I think. I am incredibly arrogant about my taste in music and have rarely been wronged (who knows maybe todays the day)so will not try to make witty comeback for the sake of the thread…besides, I rate so many other opinions of yours I think I can cope with disagreeing on this one.
Love right back at ya.
I don’t like commenting on rap because I don’t listen to it nor am I a rapper…don’t know what is considered “dope” these days.
Overall, none of them are my cup of tea. For reasons I’d find wrong to disclose…being an artist myself. Wouldn’t be a good look if I went into detail.
I’m sure they have people who adore them.
Shutting up now.
I don’t like commenting on rap because I don’t listen to it nor am I a rapper…don’t know what is considered “dope” these days.
Overall, none of them are my cup of tea. For reasons I’d find wrong to disclose…being an artist myself. Wouldn’t be a good look if I went into detail.
I’m sure they have people who adore them.
Shutting up now.
@Reclaimin – Hey, zero love lost sistren! Got nothing but mad respect for many of your other views too.
Stay up and stay blessed.
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@reclaimin, do you like or listen to any of these artists by any chance?
http://www.myspace.com/vanesssafreeman
http://www.myspace.com/emilykingmusic
http://www.myspace.com/krystlewarren (lovin three ladies)
http://www.myspace.com/bravebird2
http://www.myspace.com/agapefeaturingnadiaharris
What do you think of em?
Well Vanessa part of the extended fam, period. From her own debut work to her ridiculous contributions with Mark de Clive Lowe, to Nathan Haines to Reel People and all her broken stuff. I have an unhealthy amount of love for that woman! And have bought a hell of a lot of her music.
And such a nice lady. She was busting the dancefloor with the rest of us the music lovers on the Coopr8 dancefloor on Easter Sunday!
The others, I don’t know just from seeing their names so it will be a nice treat to get a heads up. Of course I’m sneakily doing this at the 9-5…so thanks..always looking for new music.x
Vanessa Freeman did this song that I love, … srtas off like …
“tell me where to go from here…”
and thats all I can remember, it’s bugging me, cus I have the beat in my head I absolutely rinsed the tune hard, but can’t even remember the chorus now, lol… but have the ladi back summery beat in my head the bassline smooth and relaxing, … ah I’m p’d and can’t wait to get home lol.