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AKALA
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“The true essence of hip hop, is to take the best bits of all styles of music, and add your own flavour…”
Claims, twenty one year old, north Londoner Akala.
Pursuing a career in music after injury forced him to take a break from a promising football career. Akala’s first rated tracks were 2004’s white label ‘War’/‘Banga 4 Da Streets’.
The powerful imagery in the video, immediately made ‘Banga’ one of the most requested videos on Channel U.
Follow up single, ‘War’, became the first video by an unsigned artist to feature on MTV’s, TRL, leading to numerous live performances including supporting 50 Cent on his UK Tour.
Influences include Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and Jay-Z, from whom Akala gained the habit of recording his lyrics without writing them down.
Memories of the discouragement Akala suffered at school made him yearn for more knowledge.
“Teachers didn’t know what to do with me ‘cos they saw me as a ‘bad boy’ even though I was a straight A student all my life.”
So says the man who read Malcolm X’s biography at the age of 9, took his maths GCSE a year early, and opened a Jamaican restaurant, “Auntie’s Cuisine” in Agia Nappa at the age of 18.
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