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DEVLIN

Devlin is a grime lyricist hailing from Dagenham, Essex. He was initially spotted by another artist Dogzilla from the O.T Crew, and in 2006 he released his debut mixtape Tales From The Crypt, which received wide acclaim. Contents

Crew

Devlin is a member of the O.T Crew with Dogzilla, Syer Bars, and Deeperman. He is also in The Movement, along with Scorcher, Wretch 32, Ghetto, Mercston, Lightning, and DJ Unique.

Biography

Raised in Dagenham, Devlin was first brought to O.T's attention when he hit the airwaves on a local radio station at jus 13, even then it was easy to see he had real talent. Devlin would go up radio as much as he could with however would let him on, he was also witting and recording songs with friends and local producers at a very young age, its wasnt very long before he built up a good reputation in the area. A few years later he was brought to Dogzilla's attention again, this time by a mutual friend, Dogzy decided to give Devlin a chance and took him to the studio to check him out and lay some vocals. At the time the Danny weed's (Roll Deep)"Heat Up" was one of the most popular tracks around, Devlin jumped on it and didnt disappoint, spitting a high level of content at speed and at the same time displaying a style and flow well beyond his years.

Devlin has been etching his own place in the grime scene for the past year, he’s elevated to a colossal status in a very short amount of time. The 17 year old first performed on Rinse FM in June 2005 and since then has promoted himself to the *Fuck Radio series and is now a fully fledged member of The Movement. Devlin is one of the hottest MCs in the country, bars beyond his years and a slick flow and delivery make him reign high amongst the greats.

Progression in the Scene

Devlin was soon introduced to the rest of the O.T Crew and Dogzy wasted no time in organizing a radio slot on Flava fm. Flava was a well known breeding ground for new talent, the management at flava have had almost every big name in the scene on there at some point so it was the perfect place for Devlin to start his membership with O.T. The sets on FlavaFM were massive, every week the phoneline would jam each time Devlin touched the mic. He soon made the switch to RinseFM where he was an instant hit. Still only 16 Devlin had shown he could mix it with the big boys, He even manage to do a set with the legend that is Dj Slimzee before his departure from radio.

His relentless progresstion continued with each track Dev'z featured on. The combonation between Dogzilla and Devlin on tracks was deadly and a freestyle from Producer Rootz showed just how far Devlin had come, and in such a short space of time. The Rootz track along with eight other tracks featuring Devlin were to appear on O.T Recordings fist mixtape release.

The London Borough Of Barking & Dogenham Mixtape was released in feb 2006 and received great feedback

One of the stand out tracks on the cd was Devlin's Ghetto Kyote Rmx freestyle which was produced by O.T Recording's Deverlish. The track was played right across the board, from pirate station's like Rinse to commercial radio stations like 1Xtra and Kiss Fm. Devlin has performed live sets on both commercial stations, With Dj Logan Sama at Kiss100FM and Dj Cameo at BBC 1Xtra. He has also appeared on The Media Gang's Practice Hours DVD and Target's Aim High, Risky Roadz and RinseFM's Rinsessions mixtape.

Devlin's first solo mixtape entitled Tales From The Crypt is was released in September 2006. It had many stand out tracks including Dealers, Take Me Away and Community Outcast.

He also featured on The Movement DVD and the Movement mixtape.He has aforthcoming album called Bud sweat and bears