Oh yeah, Vortex is back on road

Sick freestyle “the moster is back” dun know.

Interview, talks about forthcoming projects, Crazy Titch, Etc

CRAZY TITCH INTERVIEW LIVE ON THE PHONE WITH J2K

haha Titch is jokes, big up him, J2K, Grime Daily.

Dreaming Big.

Brand new freestyle video for you to launch Dreams new youtube channel – http://www.youtube.com/dreammclean. He goes the FUCK IN over DaVinches ‘Rider’ instrumental, check it out. To coincide with the launch, we did a little interview to let you all know what Dre is about.

TS: Lets start off… for anyone who doesn’t know who you are, can you give us a quick introduction about yourself.

Dream: Basically, my names Dream Mclean, why? because listen, my names Andre Mclean, so Dre yeah? Dre + initials (AM) = Dream.. & put my surname on the end to make it unique! Dream Mclean, boom. As far as the music though, i started off in grime, standard, i’ll never forget that. But i don’t like to be categorized – there really isn’t a genre i won’t touch, main ones being grime & hip-hop. but don’t call me an mc or a rapper, i’m a lyricist & artist rolled into one. So yeah lyrics are the main focus for me, and if you listen to my music you’ll realise that…

TS: That name things clever, i hadn’t even clocked the initials part! So why are you different to any other upcoming guys?

Dream: Rahh lol, like i said. unlike alot of man in the scene, I’m not scared to move to any genre that’s thrown at me. I get my inspirations from everywhere & everything… & another thing, it doesn’t matter if I spit on like pop remixes, indie, funky house, unlike most artists i see, I will not dumb shit down, like i refuse to commercialise. I won’t even mention no names that’s just all i’m sayin lool..

TS: So you said you started on grime, how did you first get into it, and realise you could do this yourself?

Dream: See what the ting is yeah, from when i was a youuuut, for some reason, i wanted to be a rapper. Back then i was just spittin in the mirror to Nas & More Fire Crew, didn’t have bars, but i kept thinking i’m either gonna play for Man U or be a rapper, LOL. but i wasn’t writing til like 4 years later when i was like 13, joined some forums where people used to write grime, i started, i was shit but i got better, before long i’d like joined them american forums where people were writing and clashing (text they call it) for like money and that, some fucked fucked writers. Sites like goldmic, itshiphop, hiphopemcees and that.. Like i was a clever yout, so the punchlines and multis were mad when i was like 15. I used to come in at nights and write tunes. Obviously i’d never touched mic so i didn’t have a flow, but at 16, my boys like Siris, Blacks & that were grime mc’s in a click called LNY (now known as The Regime), I wrote my first actual bar with a flow, showed it to Blacks and he’s like “your good uno” so i went studio with them, and next ting uno i’m an mc lol. madness… (btw when the mixtape drops, know that i wrote “Story of Him” before i was an MC, like 14/15 years old.)

TS: Seen, you came out with you’re two promos I Am The British Dream Vol 1 and 2, tell us about this upcoming mixtape, ‘More That Music’?

Dream: Basically i’ve been working on this project from day, ‘More Than Music’ will blow your ears off!. It’s gonna be like 20 – 25 tunes of everything… alot of music nobody’s heard before. It’s been delayed again, i apologise, this is because I cut some tracks to make way for newer, better ones.. hence the ‘I Am The British Dream’ promos, so theyre like what didn’t make it.. if you like them, you’ll love this. But i’m not gonna reveal too much, just wait for when it drops (release date soon) well worth the fiver!

TS: For real. If you had a chance to collab with anyone in the scene on the disc, who would it be and why?

Dream: Wretch 32 because he’s so fuckin lyrical. The thing is I spat at one open mic night with him and Scorcher, them man were goin mad slappin the roof and that. They said ‘yea yea we’ll collab man definately’…. but never got back to me. peak. lol so if you man are reading this holla me.. oh and Dot Rotten, he’s ridiculous, like he’s a mad artist. them 3 man are my favorite in the uk right now. Rap-wise, gimme Kyza, K-Lash, Jehst anyday… fucked.

TS: Yeah, whats it like performing with the likes of Wretch 32, Skepta, Ghetto,  etc.?

Dream: It’s mad, like i’m just a normal guy init. I probably walk to the rave listenin to them man on my ipod. To perform with and support them is just mad.. The performance is the most excitin part in music for me man.

TS: I feel that, your always performing as well. Despite grime being a relatively small scene with its so called ‘big’ artists, why do you think it is hard to get your name into that elite?

Dream: Basically, it’s very hard not bein from london in this scene, real talk, ask any mc outside of london. it’s an uphill battle, it’s that exposure that i need and i’m dying for ca alot of people that do listen. are like why ain’t you as big as Chipmunk etc.. it’s the exposure, i need to crack london. i think goin on Westwoods show would help alooooooooot. i neeed to go on that shit.. anyone that can hook it up, olla. lol

TS: lol, Siris gave me some number for like Westwoods Office or some shit, tried phoning twice, but had no answer, was at bad times though, gunna try again in morning.

Dream: Truss, if i go on that shit. I’ll make sure i just spit somethin crazy. Dot Rotten said he’d bring me not too long ago but ain’t heard back from him… Oi Dot, olla. lol

TS: LOL. All in all, what would be the perfect 2009 for you?

Dream: Boy, obviously I’d wanna be in a Chipmunk situation by this year. but realistically, I wanna get on Westwood, get the mixtape out, get noticed, get a video on tv,  like just to be known in the uk scene and for people to say “yeah he’s fucked…” & i wouldn’t mind linkin Lauren London either.. Oi Lauren, olla… fuck it gimme Kim Kardashian and i’m haps…

TS: looooool, you’re fucked man. Truthfully though, Megan Good > Lauren London.

Dream: Nah, Lauren London > Meagan Good > The planet we live on.

TS: loool. Right, final thing, they call you the ‘Punchline Prophet’, what’s your favourite bar you ever wrote?

Dream: Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, probably either the whole of Story Of Him.. (I won’t go into them punchlines) or somethin old school like “ain’t just random planets i’m naming, but a jab in the face will leave you sat on your anus (Saturn Uranus)”… BOYYYYYYYY

TS: OH MY DAYS, THAT BAR >>>>>>>>>>>

Dream: LOL, trust me, i can’t even match that. Thats like 06/07

TS: That bar is so fucked though, same as “we’ll drive over the nigga you live with, call him a FLAT MATE!” (*check the video below to hear them bars*)

Dream: lol alieeee

TS: need some more freestyle videos with more big bars still!

Dream: Thats what i’ma do alot more of, for the people. New youtube is gonna have pure ish… i’m startin a blog, everyting, truss!

TS: trust me, the work rate is a lot! Any final words?

Dream: Yeah, big up everyone supporting, not just me, the whole uk music scene. That’s what i represent. Big up my dargs. Big up The Regime (UK Slaughterhouse trust me). Big up Lee and the guys at TeamSupreme. And finally, big up the haters….

That’s it for now… watch out for Dream – What Credit Crunch? [Prod. by Siris] dropping TONIGHT.

Eminem – Interview and 3 Live Tracks [Exclusive]

Interview Part 1: DOWNLOAD/STREAM

Interview Part 2: DOWNLOAD/STREAM

Interview Part 3: DOWNLOAD/STREAM

3am (Live) : DOWNLOAD/STREAM

We Made You (Live): DOWNLOAD/STREAM

Beautiful (Live): DOWNLOAD/STREAM

You can never have too much Em! He hit up Zane Lowe’s show when he was in UK, blessed us with an interview and three live performances. Its great to hear him perform tracks other than ‘We Made You’. He’s my favourite of all time, it is what it is. Exclusive baby!

(Still to come: Interviews with Semtex and Westwood, and the full freestyle with Westwood, keep it locked)

Donny Goines Interview

Donny Goines: Last night Peter Rosenberg interviewed me on his Real Late show and here is a clip from that. I hope you enjoy and as always any support would be greatly appreciated. Also if your in the NY area make sure to come out and rock with me tonight at my official album release party. Much love.

Big interview. The Breakfast Club, drops for FREE… TOMORROW. Make sure you download, it will be on here. Swear down it will be fucked.

Eminem & Westwood

Couple of exclusive snippets from the interview..full interview and freestyle next week.

STREAM/DOWNLOAD Snippet 1
STREAM/DOWNLOAD Snippet 2
STREAM/DOWNLOAD Snippet 3

BLACK THE RIPPER: F*CK FAYE LOUISE (18+)

LOOOL, bare jokes. Black the ripper is jokes, he tells the truth tho. More Stuff At Black Magic TV.

Holdtight House Of Grime

It’s, it’s, it’s Double S!

They just dropped three videos of Double S and his Marvell collective performing at Radio 1’s Big Weekend. You can watch them right HERE.

To accompany these videos… heres a little interview I did with Double S a little while ago which I never found the right time to post!

One of the best upcoming guys with the grime scene in my opinion is Double S. He has some of the better lyrics within the scene and his flow is crazy. I was fortunate enough to catch up with him and grab a quick little interview with me, covering topics such as how he got into the scene, his biggest achievements and Marvell.

TeamSupreme: Thanks for agreeing to do this Double. Start off with the first thing, how did you first get into grime?

Double S: I liked music as a youngun and I always used to watch t.v and want to be like the Eminems and the 2Pacs but it was just a ‘like’ not a ‘want’ at the time. At 13, my older brother introduced me to something called garage which him and his friends were listening to and tryna freestyle at school at break time. I liked what I heard and wanted to do that so when I got home I picked up a pen and tried to rhyme but nothing was coming so I put on the radio for a little inspration, and co-incidentally, D Double, Wiley and Kano were on Deja Vu, which I didn’t know nothing about, but I liked what I heard cause it made me bubble so I asked my brother ”what is this?” cause it’s not rap or pop and he told me it was Garage and that was my inspiration.

TS: So then it’s common knowledge that you had to go to Uganda for a year, was this a stumbling block in you early days or do you think it’s helped you?

Double S: It helped me very much cause I came back with a smart mind state and didnt go back to how I was before (dont ask how I was before, you won’t wanna know lol). It was a downfall aswell though because it’s taken me 3 more years to get noticed.

TS: Yeah i can see how it would do help and hinder to be honest when you put it like that. So we’ve moved on from there, and you came out with From Day which really got you noticed. What would you call your biggest achievement of 08?

Double S: Kind of ‘From Day’ because that opened alot of doors for me like bookings, interviews etc. It even got me that advert with MTV Base which was getting played on every single MTV Music channel plus TMF (alot of my haters were angry but I would be too seeing me every 10 seconds lol). It done alot for me but I became quiet after a while and that was due to me learning a few things that I don’t wanna do in 09 that alot of people were doing wrong. I learnt alot and thats why this year i’m coming with a bang. I’ve already recorded my next 2 singles off my next mixtape entitled FLOW FATHER. Should be interesting

TS: Yeah following From Day/Money’s The Motive, I noticed you put a lot more work in with Marvell. How did the Marvell crew come about?

Double S: When Vertex started Marvell, der were 5 members: Double S, Vertex, Swift-24, Shotta-D & Mystro. As we got older, priorities started running up on everyone so it was abit stressing. Getting to uni, Having kids and moving out of the bits was the reason the other 3 aint in the crew today. We still talk and it’s all nothing but love because we grew up and their reasons are understandable. Eventually it became me and Vertex in the crew. Shocka was basically in another crew from north called Chain Gang and at the time they had broken up and I’ve known Shocka from when I was in like year 9-10 so I already knew what he was about. One day, he must have come to Alwayz Recording for Vertex to do his promo cover Beast On The Loose Vol 1 (if you ain’t got it download it now off his MySpace http://www.myspace.com/shockabwf).

TS: Oh believe, i’ve got that, Family Business song is straight REAL TALK.

Double S: We had to go Semtex’s show so we bought Shocka along and my manager liked Shocka’s style plus heard couple tunes from a CD Shocka & Vertex was cooking up called ‘Jacking Beats’ which didn’t see the light of day. We were just right as a crew from there so we just ran with it

TS: So how long you been involved with Always Recordings for then? Cause I’d never heard of them, and all of a sudden all my favourite artists are shouting out AR AR?

Double S: I joined Always Recording the same time as Chipmunk, Feb 07. The funny thing about this whole story is I was going to quit music before I joined Always but God gave me another chance I guess, and it’s got me doing this ting like no other.

TS: Ah seen. I was actually on there MySpace yesterday, i see its only like £15 per hour for studio session which is pretty good.

Double S: Always Recording is the place to be. Were coming back harder then ever after Chipmunks album. Thats why everyones been quiet cause we’ve all been trying to push his album hard

TS: So I guess Flow Father be coming out sometime after Chips album then… any date set?

Double S: Ain’t really got one but by the way it’s sounding, it can come out and bring a big impact but on a serious note, before summer. Thats when I wanna drop it but you never know with release dates so I ain’t putting a date. But you’re gonna hear alot just before summer even though you hear alot now. Work rates first place, I take the piss.

TS: Haha, non-stop work man, is good! So the project’s called Flow Father as you said… You have a bar that goes “Moneys The Motive?  That’s the old Double S / Now it’s Double Dutch cah you need more  Double S”. Is this a different project to Flow Father or did you just change the name?

Double S: At the time, I wanted to change the name but you are gonna get a project called Double Dutch just for me opening my mouth.

TS: Lol, i ain’t mad!

Double S: It might be called, Flow Father Vol.2: Double Dutch

TS: Cool cool. With a couple projects in the works then, gives you a chance to set up some collabs. Is there anyone in the scene that you would like to collaborate/work with on these projects that you haven’t had the  opporunity to do so with yet?

Double S: Hmmm, I like challenging myself so doing tunes with others doesn’t really come to mind when I get a beat. But I always like getting beats and thinking to myself, ‘Ghetto would sound hard on this’ or ‘Wiley would sound sick on this.’ But getting them on it is the hard bit cause they so busy… so I end up doing it myself and feeling happy I slyly ain’t cheated. Alot of people cheat on their mixtapes with features so they don’t have to do alot of work

TS: Yeah I see what you mean,. Anyways, wrap it up there, hopefully we’ll have another chat when Flow Fathers being released! Take care.

Double S: Safe, take care, Large up TeamSupreme, large up Marvell and Always Recordings, peace!

(Sidebar: Also watch Wretch 32 perform live HERE.)