Chiddy Bang - Pro's Freestyle

This was one of my favourite joints of The Swelly Express ...here's the guys performing it on a roof top. Why not!





Keep an eye out for the guys debut album The Swelly Life coming soon.

Chiddy Bang - Sooner Or Later [VIDEO]

If you knew about 'Proto' before you knew about 'Chiddy', then it's very likely you'll enjoy this video. Filmed by Chidera himself on a trip back to Nigeria, it plays out as a perfect video for the track Sooner Or Later which featured on their Opposite Of Adults EP.



And if you don't know what I mean when I say Proto, then you're missing out on a whole bunch of quality songs. This song (below) was probably the first ever time I heard Proto, and I've been hooked to him and Xaphoon since. This was recorded with Chiddy's friend and fellow Nigerian artist eLDee.




And if ya don't know...

On some 'Cribs' ish!

Ok, ok, I know I keep going on about these guys. But I just had to put this video up. I wonder what the crib will be looking like this time next year? So long as Proto (Chidera) keeps freestylin that way, pretty damn good I imagine!



Shout out to Parlophone

Proto's SBTV F64

7 words: IF YOU DON'T KNOW, NOW YOU KNOW! (Phew, yep, definately 7 words)

From first hearing Proto spit alongside eLDee, to wearing out The Swelly Express on my ipod, to seeing Chiddy Bang perform live at the tiny Notting Hill Arts Club and watching The Opposite Of Adults climb up the itunes chart- there's been little doubt in my mind that Chidera 'Proto' Anemege could easily out-rhyme and out-freestyle, well...pretty much anyone. If you need any more proof, check out the F64 he recorded for SBTV; as always it comes straight off the top!




Big props to SBTV for the recognition, and nice to see Xaphoon kicking it in the background.



"Flow sicker than the flu" - No doubt!

via SBTV

Chiddy Bang - Notting Hill Arts Club 11/02/10

This one graces my blog cos you wait too long otherwise! Check the pics!

Review & pics!!

“Anyone here familiar with The Swelly Express mixtape?” asks Noah ‘Xaphoon Jones’ Beresin, the Philly beat maker, who earlier flipped open his sticker covered laptop on what may be the lowest stage I’ve ever seen. The response is a round of cheers from a packed and ever intimate crowd at the Notting Hill arts club. Some may have never heard of Chiddy Bang, despite the recent regular spins of their debut EP, ‘The Opposite of Adults’, on Radio 1 but as Chidera ‘Proto’ Amanage strolls on stage, the burst of unreserved energy which he explodes into is contagious.

Putting shame to some artists’ lackadaisical approach to performing, they open with ‘Fresh Like Us’, and the message isn’t far wrong. As Proto later delivers the line “They say Hip Hop is dead, we bringing the vital signs” I find myself inclined to believe him.

Combining Electronica and Hip Hop seamlessly together on such tracks as their MGMT sampled debut, sounds pretty close to musical genius, but that isn’t all they’re good at. A third of the way through the set Xaphoon confidently, and without a hint of conventional Hip Hop ego, declares that Proto is the best freestyler we will have ever heard. Point in hand, he puts it out to the crowd to choose the subject

of his freestyle, following which, Proto proceeds to deliver some flawless; extremely tactical; metaphor-laced bars.

There’s little doubt that Chidera has the lyrical originality to live up to his alias ‘Prototype’. Just when you think you’ve heard every Biggie Smalls-related metaphor there is he comes out with “I’m the photo album Voletta has, BIG picture”, give it a second…you’ve got it. Show me another MC that matches him lyrically, I think you'd be hard pushed.

No doubt it was a short set, but as I was leaving I kind of had this feeling like “Wow, one day I can say I saw Chiddy Bang before they blew up and changed the course of Hip Hop”. Not a bad conclusion for any ones first UK tour date.

"Never chase girls, chase dreams first/Motion picture drive I concluded that my dream works"

XXL Freshman

Every year my fave mag XXL list their 'Top 10 Freshmen class'. It's 2010; the countdown has begun!

So far...

1 = Pill


2 = Wiz Khalifa


Now, I can see why these guys have made the list but, in my opinion neither even compare lyrically to Proto!! Right? Next year...next year!