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Edan "Beauty & The Beat"

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:42 pm
by godflesh fiend
Anyone here a fan??? Edan's first album "Primitive Plus" is superb & the follow up "Beauty & The Beat" was probably the best album to come out in 2005......pure class. The guy is a genius and funny as hell.

I caught him live as part of Scotland's TripTych Music festival. The first night he headlined in Edinburgh and the 2nd he was on the bill with Belle & Sebastian??!! It was hilarious watching all these Belle & Sebastian fans faces when Edan came on and blew shit up!

I'm sure Edan must be on the verge of releasing a new album soon???

If you love Hip Hop and haven't had the pleasure of hearing this guys records do yourself a favour and get hold of them.

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:48 pm
by 2tall
yup humble magnifient etc.. great records. for those that don't know check out lewis recordings.

i saw dood juggle 2 records one handed whilst rapping at the same time, clever bloke

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:11 pm
by godflesh fiend
Yeah Humble Magnificent indeed!

He was also throwing out flowers to the crowd while rapping. It just doesn't come any more Hip Hop than that!

Syllable Practice is a beast!

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:30 pm
by menacetosobriety
Yeah, he’s definitely a cool guy and pretty humble with it. Even signed a couple of my Edan 12”s .

Saw him do a free PA at Spreadlove some years back, shortly before Primitive Plus was released. Towards the end of the performance UK emcee Doc Brown called him out from the audience to battle

I remember that Doc Brown was proper lean on booze at this point and even asked me for the last of my pint when the bar had stopped serving

Anyway, Edan responded by sayin’ that he wasn’t down to battle but would cipher with him outside

True to his word he did hang back outside after the show for quite some time listening to heads rhyming and quietly showing his appreciation

Some of the guys were actually pretty good. Doc Brown included despite his by then very drunken state. Even kicked a couple of verses myself

one of the rappers who had a video camera with him even got Edan to drop an accapella of ‘Drop some smooth lyrics’ for his girlfriend as it was her favourite Edan song. Though understandably tired at this point he did oblige which I thought was a nice gesture


I’ve not seen him perform since but would like to. His tag team rhyme partner on stage Insight is pretty dope in his own right

They’ve got good chemistry between them

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:56 pm
by EmpfÃnger
2tall wrote: i saw dood juggle 2 records one handed whilst rapping at the same time, clever bloke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2ByP5wqQ8