Phat Kat & Iron Braydz - Dobermans

Iron Brayds teams up with OG Detroit MC Phat Kat for more cross pond collaboration. As you'd expect from the title both MCs deliver agressive bars over Agors stuttering beat. If you like ts and sweats in the crisp video you can support Iron and cop them HERE.

Iron Braydz Fiery Red ft Sean Price (Free Download)

Iron Braydz teams up with Sean P for this heavy banger.
Free Download here

Stylus Promotions (News and Events)

In a world full of 'janky' promoters that will just put any thrash on a hiphop night if they promise to sell tickets or pay, resulting in your favourite hiphop acts being supported by artists that are not up to standard its refreshing to see a company that is motivated by putting on quality nights.
Enter Stylus Promotions who are about to bring nights to the Rhythm Factory in London featuring UK Legends Phi-Life Cypher,Germanys very own Snowgoons,PMD,the superb Rhyme Asylum,Iron Braydz,Sean Strange,Grit Grammar,Capital R and more.
Find out more about the only UK date of Snowgoons Kraftwerk tour on the 23rd of January here and more about the Phi-Life Cypher show here and Stylus Promotions here

IRON BRAYDZ Devil May Cry (Free Download)

FREE Iron Braydz album from http://www.ironbraydz.com/ - Now on-line!! Get your FREE copy of his album by joining his mailing list.

Iron Braydz has been getting rave reviews from both sides of the Atlantic for everything he releases at the moment.
With intelligent lyrics and excellent beat selection it seems everytime a new song or video comes out everyone pays attention.

Just log-on and sign up to get your free digital copy now.

'Life Music' - Grit Grammar (review)

Watch out for Grit Grammar's album 'Life Music' - it's a professionally finished and very solid selection of tracks from the MC and his go-to producer Baron Samedi.

Grit bucks all current radio fodder trends without just sounding like another UK MC with another UK Hip Hop album - this LP has memorable moments.

'Hard Times' is an obvious choice - one most of you will have heard with its Genesis Elijah feature but picking out others is fairly difficult - but only because of the high quality of each track.

'Sound of the City' is a funky ode to Grit's London which showcases his ability to really rhyme and flow. Strangely, the last three tracks are all ones that really stick in my mind: 'Trapped From The Beginning' (an exploration of love, life and attitudes to both, 'Going Under' (an honest diatribe on drug struggles) and 'Rich & Famous' featuring Baron Samedi on the mic as well as the optimistic production are some of the best tracks on the album.

Elsewhere Grit finds perfect rhyme partners in Kyza, Iron Braydz and Verb T (in thoughtful, serious mode).

The album drops on 27th September and everyone is invited to the album launch on Tuesday 28th Sept 2010, The Social, 5 Little Portland Place, London. The event is free and features full live performances from Grit Grammar, Verb-t & Fliptrix, Genesis Elijah, Iron Braydz, Baron Samedi and Lixx with a special guest appearance from Kyza Smirnoff and DJ CWD holding down the decks all evening. Check out: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=154728551206519&ref=mf for more.

Track Of The Day: 'Bang For The Cause' ft. Iron Braydz - Manny Moscow

I've been thinking about how I can keep the blog more up-to-date now I'm pretty busy elsewhere in life. I've also been thinking about how to give whole albums the shine they deserve when I don't have time to do a full review. My solution? Track Of The Day. What I'll do is pick a track that well represents a LP release and let you know about that as a pointer to the full album itself. Here goes:

'Bang For The Cause' is taken from Manny Moscow's 'Blood On Ice' mixtape which is mixed by Tricksta for UK Runnings. The track features man of the moment Iron Braydz, a heavily militant beat which drips with soul and some from-the-heart lyricism from the two MCs.

The whole release is available for free by clicking here or here (if you're a Datpiff head). It's been around for a few months now but you may not have known that.

'Hang'/'L's Formation'/'Death Machine' - Iron Braydz (video)

I Think You Get The Point - Skillit (video)

'Devil May Cry' - IronBraydz (review)

With legendary DJ Marley Marl getting really excited about this, ALL you fans of Hip Hop should be sitting up to listen. The 'this' I refer to is IronBraydz's debut solo LP 'Devil May Cry'.

It's fairly different in sound and style to his group Blind Alphabetz's 'Luvolution' which had a very summery, jazzy vibe to it. This release features darker, grittier production and the seriousness dial has been turned up a few notches. Religious ideas and socioeconomic concerns meld to provide subject matter perfect for fans of those who he rolls with - M9 and Cyrus Malachi, for example, who both feature on this release.

'Savin Artillery' features the mighty Guilty Simpson and Sav Killz over a suitably Detroit-ish wonky production from Proppa. 'Death Machine' utilises Lewis Parker's 'Rooftop Drama' (from his 'Sniper Beats' CD) and for that reason alone it's totally dope. The self-produced 'Feelings From The Heart' brings the dusty jazziness as Braydz reminisces about his father - a beautiful thing.

Buy it now from Suspect Packages for just £6.99.

Free UK Hip Hop from Black The Ripper, Loudmouth Melvin, Py-Ro, Genesis Elijah, Jabba The Kut and Iron Braydz

First up is ‘Just A Dream’ by Black The Ripper. It features Pierre and Loudmouth Melvin and you may remember I posted up the video for this a few weeks ago.

Loudmouth Melvin is busy because he’s also produced this track by Py-Ro – ‘It’s Not Long’ (you might remember this one from the video too).

Track here from Genesis Elijah – ‘I’m Doing It’.

Jabba Tha Kut has an album in the pipeline and here’s a little taster of what’s to come – ‘Get Ya Live-O’ featuring MAB on vocal duties.

Iron Braydz also has an album on the way. ‘Devil May Cry’ will be out sometime next year. In the meantime here’s his track ‘Golden Legacy’.

Lastly, remember the Wio-K track featuring Kyza? Well there’s a dub remix of it for you now.

'East is in the House' - VA - 456 (free download)

Pitching East Coast Hip Hop from the United States against British soundalikes 456 has created a gritty mix worth bumping on whichever side of the Atlantic you reside.

M.O.P., Cormega, Fat Lip, Nutrageous, Sha Stimuli and Reks nestle alongside the hardest of current UK tracks from Orphans of Cush, Endemic and Cappo, Iron Braydz, Mr. Flex, Micall Parknsun, Jehst and The IRS.

This free download has a purpose - to prepare you for forthcoming music from 456!

Here at Certified Banger we have another taster from 456 and Chosen Spokesmen MC Mr. Flex (who featured on volumes 4 and 5 of 'On The Radar'). The track is called 'Dark Days' and whilst the original production was done by Risk (also a featured artist on 'On The Radar Vol. 5'), 456 has had a go at remixing it - see what you think (click to download the remix and click here to download the original).

'Golden Legacy' - Iron Braydz (free download)

Slotting right into the mould that M9 and pals have been carving out over the last 2 years is Iron Braydz' 'Golden Legacy' taken from the forthcoming 'Devil May Cry' project. This track takes a different and more serious and religious route to the one taken on the Blind Alphabetz album.