Rodney P
Rodney P (born Rodney Panton in Battersea, London) is an EnglishMC who entered the UK hip hop scene in the 1980s. He started out as a member of the London Posse, one of the UK's first home grown hip hop acts who were highly influential in the development of the genre. Rodney P has had one of the longest and most respected careers in UK hip hop. Also known as da riddim killa, he cites the reggae he heard while growing up as a second-generation West Indian immigrant as an influence on his dub-heavy music.
History
In 1986, The London Posse were invited by Mick Jones of The Clash to support his new band Big Audio Dynamite on a UK tour. A recording contract with Big Life records followed, and Rodney P went on to support hip-hop heavyweights N.W.A and Soul II Soul in the early nineties.
The decision to guard his creative control led to the birth of his own label Riddim killa, a collaboration with Low Life Records, one of the leading labels of the rapidly growing scene. He was introduced to DJ Skitz by a mutual friend from the Deal Real workshop in the West End, and appears on Skitz’s albums Countryman and Homegrown volume 1. The pair went on to host a show on the BBC 1Xtra radio station, a leading black music network, which ran for five years until 2007. This development in his career led to involvement in radio documentaries, including a programme recorded in Johannesburg about the aftermath of Apartheid.
Dub Pistols
Dub Pistols are an English electronic music group founded by Barry Ashworth in 1996. The other members of the band were record producer and bassist Jason O'Bryan, Brooklyn producer and lyricist, T. K. Lawrence on vocals, Jap Slut guitarist John King, and DJ Stix / Steve Hunt. Guest songwriters and vocalists include Blade, James Dewes Sheffield (JMS), Rodney P and Terry Hall. In 2008 Jack Cowens joined the band on drums.
Career
The band's first singles were "There's Gonna Be a Riot" and "Best Got Better" in 1998. Their first album, Point Blank, came out the same year. Their albums Six Million Ways to Live and Y4K: Next Level Breaks were released in 2001.
To date, they have released five studio albums as well as contributing to numerous film soundtracks, including Blade II, Bad Company, and Mystery Men. They have also released a significant number of remixed tracks from other artists. The most notable of these include a remix of Ian Brown's "Dolphins Were Monkeys", Limp Bizkit's "My Way", The Crystal Method's "Do It", and Moby's "James Bond Theme".
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Stronger
by: Dub PistolsSo contagious, rap pages
Life's the greatest
Glad they made us
I got the status of courageous
Lions in the cages
You go through stages
See the faces of the different places
Meet on a daily basis
Never know who's gonna change us
It's the strangers, like the dangers in the language
Like the way we walk, our body talking
Like were gangsters
Still were nameless
And were shameless
Gonna find a way to make you famous
Spend your soul
Make you brainless
Sell your dreams
Make you stainless
Steel, so you can no longer feel
What's really real
But still were gonna find the ones that's real
To show us the deal
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Who's gonna make you jump?
Said who's gonna make you jive?
Say who's gonna come and try and analyse this one?
Whos gonna make you scream?
Said who's gonna make you shout?
Said who's gonna make you wonder what its all about?
Who's gonna make you laugh?
Said who's gonna make you cry?
Say who's gonna make you stay up and wonder why?
Who ? who's gonna come in to your life now ?
Who come to make you stronger ?
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Yeah it could have been nice
If that path we had gone
And the verse it was vice
Checking roads that I take
Never know want comes next
Who you tryng to fool?
Some fools trying to flex
Oh you trying to stay cool with the soem Its best
Take two to the chest
Then pass to the rest
If you aint got the best
Then you ain't living blessed
Means you sitting on stress like a bird on a nest
Who's gonna make you jump?
Said who's gonna make you jive?
Say who's gonna come and try and analyse this one?
Whos gonna make you scream?
Said who's gonna make you shout?
Said who's gonna make you wonder what its all about?
Who's gonna make you laugh?
Said who's gonna make you cry?
Say who's gonna make you stay up and wonder why?
Who ? who's gonna come in to your life now ?
Who come to make you stronger ?
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Waking up like a stranger
Creeping out through the danger
Kalidescope eyes
Out late telling lies
I'm the one you despise
The one you love to hate
The one sneaking out of the bed when it's late
Cant be stuck in the past
Four corners form the mast
Speak in to the black hole
Now you've lost all control
While I'm out doing dirt
Getting hurt, I've been told
That I'm still chasing shadows
Whilst my demons take hold.
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Who's gonna make you jump?
Said who's gonna make you jive?
Say who's gonna come and try and analyse this one?
Said who's gonna make you shout?
Said who's gonna make you wonder what its all about?
Who's gonna make you laugh?
Said who's gonna make you cry?
Say who's gonna make you stay up and wonder why?
Who ? who's gonna come in to your life now ?