The Horseman rides again
Members of the Dawn Raid family constantly had a confident bully about them. When they turned up en masse shot to the Newly Sjaelland Music Awards for model, guiding their beefy frames through the doors and sauntering through the crowd, they were to a greater extent than in all likelihood wearing shirts emblazoned with the bring up of the current album the label was push.It was never an intimidating, tough guy effigy, more a confident, we-mean-business coming.However, last yr the comforter was taken out of their billowing bluster when the Confederacy Auckland record label, whose conglomerate included fashion, hair care and computer graphic pattern coat of arms, went into liquidation subsequently 10 eld.Mareko, a member of rap music group Deceptikonz and one of Dawn Raid's most prolific artists, calls the elimination "that little situation"."It was shocking for a little moment only I imagine we knew a little more than the populace. For the public it would have just seemed like it came out of nowhere, just we knew roughly it for a bit and these guys always had investors in their nook so we form of knew it wouldn't go down."
For Dawn Raid it was a case of acquiring back on the horse cavalry and riding it, and Mareko's endorsement solo album, Gabardine Sunday 2: The Book of Mark, is the label's fourth spillage since the dark days of a year ago."We've been banging out albums since that little spot," he says.Nowadays, though, things are a little different. Mareko and the other Deceptikonz - Wolf, Devolo and Alphrisk - have set up up their have record label, Horsemen Records.The label's number one project, the Horsemen Family unit album My Shout from last class, which produced top 10 come to Feels Like Magic, was a reefer project with Dawn Raid."I infer we just thought, 'Man, this is serious and if it isn't going to be around forever then we better make a back up-plan'. I think we're just to a greater extent aware."Although, to refine things, White Dominicus 2 was released this week and came come out through Dawn Raid.Seance next to Mareko at the offices of Universal Music, which distributes Break of day Raid and Horsemen albums, you apprize how the people of Lilliput moldiness possess felt when Gulliver turned up. He's a towering and solid presence yet his voice has a deep, laid-back, almost pacify feel.He made a name for himself as a battle MC in 2000, when he won the Conflict For Mastery, and a halt rapper and producer on the first gear Deceptikonz record album, Elimination, in 2002, and the first White Billy Sunday a twelvemonth afterward. Since then he's grown up, become more self-assured, and finds it easier to say it like it is.On the meandering, and at times narky Next Billy Sunday from WS2 he rattles away a list of local hip-hop name calling. Just about engender royal intervention; to others he's non so complimentary. In one instance he bails up Benjamin West Auckland rapper Unique world Health Organization "pissed off everyone in the vista".
