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Wonder

There are 2 artists named Wonder: 1. Wonder, arranger from the OrangeCoffee circle. 2. Wonder AKA DJ Wonder is a UK Grime DJ/Producer & is a former member of Roll Deep. In 2001, while attending a business course, one of Wonder’s lessons was cancelled. Bored, he went round to a DJ friend’s house and started dabbling on the decks. Nine hours later, his DJ career began. Wonder soon abandoned aspirations towards a career in business and started to study music technology instead. He soon hooked up with future Roll Deep members Wiley and Danny Weed.

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Sway

There are at least 5 artists with the name Sway: 1. Back in 2004, 22 year old Derek Safo (aka Sway) devised a master plan for success in setting up his own totally self-run label, Dcypha Productions, as the outlet for his initial trilogy of releases; This Is My Promo, Volume 1, This Is My Promo, Volume 2, and This Is My Demo. The aim of this initial hat-trick of records was to express and establish himself as an artist independently without the help of a label.

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Jehst

William G. Shields, better known as Jehst or a slew of aliases including The High Plains Drifter and Jay Star, is an English rapper and co-founder of hip hop label YNR. Jehst is the best kept secret in British rap and one of the most consistent artists to break out of the UK over the last five years. This man has built a following and spawned a thousand soundalikes right across the country. Top-notch flows, unconventional subject matter and tight beats mean that the product is always at the top of tree, while his stage show is without doubt the best of any UK hip-hop artist.

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Akala

The streets gave birth to hip hop, and the streets are where it lives. But the corporate world stole rap. Now Akala’s stealing it back. Over the last two years Kingslee ‘Akala’ Daley, has emerged from London’s hip hop underground as one of the leaders of a new British artistic renaissance. In 2006 Akala won the Best Hip Hop MOBO award for his debut album ‘It’s Not A Rumour’. Since then Akala has rocked live spots on Radio 1 and warmed up for artists as diverse as Jay-Z, Christina Aguilera and Richard Ashcroft.

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President T

President T is a UK Grime artist, and a former member of Meridian Crew along with Skepta, JME, Big H, Pablo, Bossman Birdie, Dan and Lieutenant. The former Meridian Crew member now makes music as part of the Bloodline Fam collective. President T was working on a mixtape called 'Back Inna My Face' which was due to be released in March 2007 until Pres T took a break from the Grime scene, and so the mixtape was never released.

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