T in the Park, 2009, and a pop-firing, chromo-dub Edinburgh rap trio are raising party mayhem with their chichi dance routines, falsetto serenades and glittering Michael Jackson homages – just like the teenage, day-glo spawn of The Beastie Boys and De La Soul.
T in the Park, 2009, and a pop-firing, chromo-dub Edinburgh rap trio are raising party mayhem with their chichi dance routines, falsetto serenades and glittering Michael Jackson homages – just like the teenage, day-glo spawn of The Beastie Boys and De La Soul.
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Young Fathers tell Nicola Meighan how they have come of age after signing with a US hip hop label
The groove-pop troupe were called Young Fathers, and three years on they've just been signed by celebrated US hip-hop enclave Anticon, which revels in cerebral, experimental rap and avant-pop (Sole, Doseone, Themselves). "It feels good to have other people believe in Young Fathers as much as we do," says MC and beat-freak Graham "G" Hastings, on becoming the label's first-ever Scottish associates.
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