Manchester season: Tunde features on Fire In The Booth

Posted on by Jack Lynch

South Manchester’s Tunde has linked up with Charlie Sloth and Beats 1 for an exclusive episode of Fire In The Booth with Apple Music. And it looks like Manchester is even firmer on the map than ever before.

Tunde comes in with confidence and a new ruggedness which seems to have been missing from the Manchester scene for a minute.

After impressing the scene with his appearances on Link Up TV and P110, the MC from Manchester has brought levels of pure Grime to the Manchester scene which haven’t been seen since Bugzy jumped into everyone’s playlists.

With a fresh, new and different sound, Tunde has emerged onto the scene as the new thing. The accent, the look and the all round trap-lifestyle that the MC emphasises in his bars, appeals to the audience massively – as you can see in the numbers.

“I’ve got a passion for these phones theres no debate, why you think they gave me trapper of the year four years straight”

– Tunde

Tunde comes with a new look, unique to his own brand, with a new sound and flow which really compliments the Manchester accent to it’s full potential.

Charlie Sloth and Beats 1 have pushed this Fire In The Booth heavily, and seemed to
have backed Tunde to make some serious moves after this opportunity.

However, it’s not that Tunde needed this Fire In The Booth, the videos that have been released prior to this have reached some serious heights.

It’s something about this hard, gangster-ridden Grime – from up North which just seems to captivate such an audience.

South Manchester has been stamped on the map after this Fire In The Booth, and with the platform reaching heights and an audience that it has not been able to access before, Manchester’s Grime scene is being pushed in the perfect direction to take it to the next level.

What’s next from Tunde? Who knows. But this Fire In The Booth is another big step in bringing Grime from up North onto the same pedestal as the talent coming from London.

Charlie Sloth drops first Fire In The Booth special for Beats 1

Posted on by Jack Lynch

Ambush, Headie One, K-Trap and Blade Brown came through to the new Beats 1 studio with Charlie Sloth for the first premiered Fire In The Booth for Apple Music.

The new platform produced by Apple Music has brought Charlie Sloth over from the BBC, to create a new outlet for up and coming artists to broadcast their talents to a bigger audience than ever seen before.

The Fire In The Booth Special brought a Drill sound through to the studio. With all 4 MC’s running over hard, drill-ridden beats.

Ambush and Headie One tackled the opening beat first, with Ambush taking the bodying crown for the first sequence.

Blade Brown tackles the beats well too, as the name that may arguably have the least amount of recognition out of the 4, he held his own and produced a number of very solid verses.

Beats 1 is being broadcasted in over 40 countries worldwide, which I think is such a sick idea. You really can’t blame Sloth for making this move.

Although Drill isn’t really for everyone, I can’t help but admire how the sound is being spread across the globe.

The video itself is very different to the set up that was previously seen on the BBC. With Charlie Sloth stating that we will now be finding out how the artists prepare for their Fire In The Booth’s.

Although the interviews before the freestyles were lacklustre, the new structure to the videos is something I can take to.

Fire In The Booth episodes will now be available on Apple Music too, which is something I’ve been waiting ages for.

This platform is one that is due to take the world by storm, although Charlie Sloth can be a little irritating at times, he is definitely the right man to take the UK scene to a global scale.