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Chiedu Oraka & Deezkid are the sound of a new working-class
Northern England. Meeting at The Warren Youth Project,
Deeze agreed to volunteer in exchange for using their studio
where he met Chiedu after rating a mixtape of his and telling
him he could make beats.
Now the Hull natives are cutting their own path with Men
Behaving Badly, a commentary on the UK’s real nightlife
combining Grime, Funky, Afro-fusion & Garage with rave/club
culture wrapped in trademark Yorkshire humour, urging you
to hit the bars and dancefloors as hard as a Tyson right to the
body, right to the head.
“Men Behaving Badly isn't defined by a genre, you can’t just
put this into a box. It's a lifestyle, we know what we are,
Northern reprobates who don't tend to do well with it comes
to rules” explains Chiedu. “We've made a record that hasn't
made us conform to what’s out now. It’s a National Anthem
that will make any stiff dancer feel like James Brown as soon
the track comes on. So, grab a drink and shake a leg”
In a city often dominated by guitar music, Oraka & Deeze have
conceived the UK’s freshest alternative sound with nods to
the early 00s which has already attracted the attention of BBC
Radio 1 (Mike Skinner with Annie Mac), 1Xtra (Introducing
Track of the Week), Radio 1’s Big Weekend, 6 Music (Tom
Robinson), The Guardian, i-D, The Quietus & BBC’s Newsbeat.
Previous single ‘Darcy’ was the 8th longest track to ever be on
Grime Shutdown for over 300 days, over 2.3M streams
followed by Chiedu being the only UK MC to officially drop
bars on the biggest Hip Hop beat of the year, Blueface’s
‘Thotiana’.
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