20-year-old urban pop artist Talay Riley will release his debut single ‘Humanoid’ on 4th October through Jive Records.
Despite his age, Talay is already a familiar name within the music industry. A year ago, Talay had his first UK #1 single with Chipmunk’s ‘Oopsy Daisy’, a song he wrote, following it with a UK Top 10 as a featured artist and co-writer on Chipmunk’s ‘Look For Me’.
Debut single ‘Humanoid’ is a perfect taster of what is to come from Talay Riley. It is a dark and edgy urban pop track that merges robotic beats, cutting edge production and a killer chorus to create a song that is instant and exciting. With a surprisingly big American sound for such a young UK artist, it is already causing a buzz online from LA to the UK.
Having already toured with N-Dubz earlier this year along with performances at Wireless festival, on a line-up with the likes of Jay-Z and Chase & Status, and the Underage Festival, Talay has started out on his own headline dates across the UK.
His debut album will be released in 2011 and he is currently working in the studio in the UK and LA with a host of producers including Inflo 1st (The Saturdays, One Republic), Harmony aka H-Money (a member of Darkchild Productions in LA responsible for Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ amongst others) and Rodney Jerkins.
Talay Riley is a name to watch this year and ‘Humanoid’ is just the start of what is to come from this very exciting new UK artist.
Big Narstie, L Dot Man, Hungry Stats & Sam Khan London Mela Freestyle
Yesterday was London Mela, and we was at the BBC Introducing stage, where we managed to catch a freestyle from Grime legend Big Narstie & his men; L Dot Man & Hungry Stats along with B Somebody’s own Sam Khan.
Big Narstie was actually performing on the day along with Asian Grime MC Shizzio.
Was great to see a UK scene come and show love & support for the UK Asian artist’s striving!
Lady B (our resident in house Photographer), has been out on the road again, hooking up this time with Kingston’s Tabanacle, Red Alert & G Man. The photo’s look sick, proper capturing the emotion, i particularly like the one of Red Alert to the top left of the screen, blending the colours from grey to colour. There’s so many more to show…we gonna hook up a page for Lady B & Graphic Hustle to Show case their work real soon!
Tabanacle has already been introduced to BSomebodyTV, and will be hearing a lot more of, as his Mixtape is real close to dropping. We had a sneak peak whilst at the shoot and it’s something fresh, and his flow is ridiculous! Track Listing is HARD still with collaborations from: Skandal, Sam Khan, Remus, Charlie Sloth and more. He is also the guy behind Street Deciplez Online, showcasing artists freestyles.
Rolling with Tabanacle is Britain’s Youngest known MC, Red Alert. He caused a stir a while back in the early days of SB.TV, and has been the star face in music video’s with Charlie Sloth featured on worldstarhiphop.com…this kid’s gonna be ‘ARD’ when he grows up.
Yet another 2 MC’s ‘Preaching the Streets’ on Street Deciplez Online.
RKZ a UK rapper hailing from Luton, this is actually an Exclusive 1st verse of his new single to be released mid August featuring well renowned Raxstar and Menis, on ‘DAS Records’.
Production is heavy, by A.D.P. Look out for his beats!
‘Talk of the town’, Sam Khan appears at the end to drop a quick freestyle to support his boy RKZ.
Make sure you check them out at London Mela this year on the BBC Introduction stage.
Street Deciplez are back on the road, this time in South London, OGz area code.
This time Desperado is ‘Preaching the Streets’ flowing over one of Dot Rottens productions, followed by a hip hop production, a versatile MC, so watch until the end!
Remember to check out Desperado’s mixtape, ‘A.B.M’, definitely one of our favourite mixtapes that’s dropped!
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