Sunday 8 June 2008

Ironik from the UK

Every so often an underground UK hiphop artist will break through. Although this happens sporadically and very rarely do they remain in the spotlight, here is another artist breaking through to the mainstream. His name is DJ Ironik.

He's been making music and DJing for a while now, and producing for other artists like Chipmunk and Firecamp. Ironik used to make harder beats but has softened his sound alot now.

His track "Stay With Me" is being played alot on national radio at the moment. It has a very sentimental message to it, and it's getting mostly positive reviews. The only thing that can be annoying about the track is the chipmunk vocals in it, however I did hear a version played on BBC's Live Lounge with a girl singing. Her vocals were beautiful and did the track justice.Ironik was inspired to write his verses for his sister to let her know he would always be watching over her if anything ever happened to him, so beautiful sentiment. The beat's pretty nice too and reminds me of Dyme Def's track, "Jezebel" with the instruments used.

Check the video:


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Like mother, like daughter.

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