Durrty Goodz is an English grime

Grime (music)

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 artist. Mahorn was signed to Polydor Records

Polydor Records

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 in 2005, but left due to a lack of creative control.

Durrty Goodz is known for his versatility, which can be seen in his ability to rap on grime, hip hop, bashment, and R&B beats, although grime is the genre many of his fans favour him rapping over.

He was named Best MC

Rapping

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 by the London pirate radio

Pirate radio

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 station Kool FM

Kool FM

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, which lead to recognition in the London underground music scene

Indie music scenes

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, and was signed to Universal Records

Universal Records

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 soon after. Mahorn made appearances on local radio programmes

Radio programming

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, mixtape

Mixtape

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s, and 12-inch single

12-inch single

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s as well. He has been featured in Logan Sama's radio segment on Kiss 100 London

Kiss 100 London

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Mahorn's brother, a grime artist as well, known as "Crazy Titch

Crazy Titch

Carl Dobson , known by his stage name Crazy Titch, is an English grime Mc Having previously spent five years in Aylesbury for robbery, handling stolen goods, theft, burglary and criminal damage; Dobson turned his attention to music, and secured a support role with D12...

" (real name Carl Dobson), was accused of murdering 21-year-old Richard Holmes. Mahorn spent nearly a year in prison until November 2006, when he was acquitted

Acquittal

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Durrty Goodz returned to his career in 2007, releasing the Axiom EP. This was followed by the Durrty Whirl mixtape in 2008, a re-release of the 2004 release, available for free download on the official Durrty Goodz website.

In 2009, Durrty Goodz released Ultrasound, a Pre-Album in the build-up to the debut album. This was followed by a Free-Album entitled 'Born Blessed' released in 2010. Durrty Goodz then began work on his debut album, entitled Overall which was released in May 2011.

In 2011 Durrty Goodz featured on an all-star Grime single titled Pull Up 2011 alongside producer Dexplicit and other artists such as Big H, Big Narstie, Dot Rotten, Black The Ripper & Shizzle. In October 2011 Durrty Goodz announched that his second album entitled, 'Foundation' will be released soon.

Discography

• 2007: Axiom EP
• 2008: Durrty Whirl
• 2009: Ultrasound
• 2010: Born Blessed
• 2011: Overall
• 2012: Foundation

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