User:Verbal Skillz

Verbal Skillz, UK Hip Hop emcee, 2012-till present, real name, David J Wheeler, born April 17 1972, from just outside the Guildford area. His First piece of work was the EP 'Dark Days'. A 5 track of work produced by DJ STIX, (producer, beat maker, scratch DJ and artist from Bordon) real name, Steven Hunt. Dark Days had the title track 'Dark Days' (long nights) and 'Dark Days' (The aftermath) which gave a brief look into a shady, criminal past from Verbals youth, and details a clever, well written, lyrical look into those dark days and an errant few years in his life. Other tacks on the EP Included 'Lacking Minerals', about 2 faced people, 'The Name', expressing Verbal's arrival onto the music scene and 'B-Boy Joy' a kind of homage to hip hop and what gave Verbal his inspiration as a kid. Verbal Skillz has a direct, no nonsense, clever story tale style to the way he writes and emcee's. He writes about subjects relevant to him, while at the same time staying true to the old school style of hip hop he loves. After 'Dark Days', he featured on a compilation album titled 'British Bulldogs' (The new breed) with a track called 'Hurts'. A punchy, bragadocious style rap, over a Self Taught beat, a Nottingham based beat maker. Next on the list Verbal set out to write his debut LP, 'The Guillotine Album' with beat production again from his close friend and Dj, DJ STIX. Being friends for 20 years and sharing the same influences and love fro real old school style hip hop, they are aiming for a debut classic, with heavy production, old school flavour and clever, skillful, real talk tracks. The Guillotine Album is due out the end of this year and will have features from Emcee Killa, from Caxton Press and a track called 'Mankind' (said to be the first single of the album) featuring legendary US rapper Masta Ace.