It’s taken a handful of years for Dagenham resident Devlin to take his deep, dedicated lyrics out of the confines of
East London and prove his worth across the North/South border. It’s now
not unusual to watch Devlin causing carnage on stage from
Northampton to Amsterdam.
At 20 years of age Devlin has what can only be described as a cult
following of supporters that value his intelligent and evocative lyrics,
in a pool of MCs that all too often spawn monotonous and lacklustre
rappers.
A diamond in the rough, Devlin’s road to success began at
O.T. Recordings with Dogzilla,Deeper, Shotz, Syer, Rachet, and
Deverlish amongst others.
The London Borough of Barking & Dogenham Mixtape was released
in Feb. 2006 and received great feedback. One of the stand-out
tracks on the CD was Devlin's Ghetto Kyote Remix freestyle
Produced by O.T Recording's Deverlish. The track was played by
dj's right across the board, from RinseFM to 1Xtra and Kiss100.
Devlin has performed live sets on commercial stations; with Tim
Westwood (Radio 1), Logan Sama (Kiss100FM) and DJ Cameo at
BBC 1Xtra to name a few. He has also appeared on a number of
DVD's including The Media Gang's Practice Hours DVD and Target's
(1Xtra, Roll deep) Aim High, Risky Roadz, Rinse FM's Rinsessions
mixtape and F@k Radio.
Devlin had two releases in 2006; O.T Recordings mixtape and vinyl
release, April Shower from O.T producer Shotz. Devlin also featured
heavily on Broad Street Stories and the Shot City Mixtape from O.T
producer Shotz.
Late 2006 Devlin joined The Movement; a group of some of the very
best MCs and producers in the grime scene including long time friend
Ghetto, Scorcher and Wretch32. Tempo Specialists was released in 2007
and proved that the best MCs in the scene had formed a strong alliance.
Devlin's first solo mixtape entitled Tales From The Crypt was released
in November 2006. It featured collaborations with O.T and
The Movement members and was considered one of the best grime
mixtapes of 2006. He followed Tales From The Crypt with the DEVZ E.P
which was a four track free download, then in 2008 Devlin released
The Art Of Rolling E.p which featured Tracks Like F.U, Life's F@ked Up
and Shot Gritty.
Devlin has worked with some of the biggest names in underground
music and now the young MC is gearing up for his first album entitled
'Bud, Sweat & Beers'which will feature the massive 2009 hits, London City
which has clocked up over a 1,000,000 views on youtube and spent over ten weeks at the Number one spot on Channel AKA and Community Outcast.
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