Skibadee
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MC Skibadee, real name Alfonso "Skibatree" Bondzie, is a Drum and Bass
MC musician from London, England
. He started on City Sound Radio around 1993.
By early 1995 Skibadee was featured regularly at events such as Thunder & Joy, Spirit of the Jungle, Ballroom Dance at the Blackpool Tower and his regular spot on City Sound Radio. By the end of 1995 Skibadee was resident for all Kool FM
, Fever, T & J, Malachite, Electrybe, NJC, Designer label Ball, Chorley FM and Innersense. Along with his gym partner, MC Dett, Skibadee launched a new project called 2Xfreestyle in late 1997, which involved putting a Drum and Bass tempo over a Hip-Hop
beat, therefore creating a doubletime effect.
The single and subsequent video 'Inside Me' was a success and after being accepted on MTV. and The Box. In 1999 Skibadee received the first of 3 the Knowledge Awards for best MC, and three Accelerated culture awards. Since 2000, Skibadee began collaborating with MC Shabba D, also known as 'Shabba D' or 'Shabby' which has now become Drum and Bass partnership S.A.S, Skiba and Shabba.
In 2006 he won the 1Xtra award for best MC, in 2007 he won best MC southwest Drum n Bass award. In 2008 and 2009 Skibadee won best Lyrical MC and best Hype MC in the national Drum and bass awards and 2010 is the third year in a row as the best Crowd Hyper MC as well as the Stevie Hyper D Lifetime Achievement Award.
More recently, Skibadee had formed a new clique with MC Fun and MC Harry Shotta, calling themselves the Uncontrollablez aka UNCZ, their DJ is the Kool FM resident DJ RuffStuff.
Skibadee has now been confirmed as having left UNCZ to pursue a solo career.
Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
MC musician from London, England
London
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. He started on City Sound Radio around 1993.
By early 1995 Skibadee was featured regularly at events such as Thunder & Joy, Spirit of the Jungle, Ballroom Dance at the Blackpool Tower and his regular spot on City Sound Radio. By the end of 1995 Skibadee was resident for all Kool FM
Kool FM
Kool FM is a London pirate radio station, started on 28 November 1991.Kool FM has stated that it has been "the very first pirate station ever to play Hardcore Jungle". Simon Reynolds called it "London's ruling pirate station" in an account of the beginnings of jungle music in the early to mid 1990s...
, Fever, T & J, Malachite, Electrybe, NJC, Designer label Ball, Chorley FM and Innersense. Along with his gym partner, MC Dett, Skibadee launched a new project called 2Xfreestyle in late 1997, which involved putting a Drum and Bass tempo over a Hip-Hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
beat, therefore creating a doubletime effect.
The single and subsequent video 'Inside Me' was a success and after being accepted on MTV. and The Box. In 1999 Skibadee received the first of 3 the Knowledge Awards for best MC, and three Accelerated culture awards. Since 2000, Skibadee began collaborating with MC Shabba D, also known as 'Shabba D' or 'Shabby' which has now become Drum and Bass partnership S.A.S, Skiba and Shabba.
In 2006 he won the 1Xtra award for best MC, in 2007 he won best MC southwest Drum n Bass award. In 2008 and 2009 Skibadee won best Lyrical MC and best Hype MC in the national Drum and bass awards and 2010 is the third year in a row as the best Crowd Hyper MC as well as the Stevie Hyper D Lifetime Achievement Award.
More recently, Skibadee had formed a new clique with MC Fun and MC Harry Shotta, calling themselves the Uncontrollablez aka UNCZ, their DJ is the Kool FM resident DJ RuffStuff.
Skibadee has now been confirmed as having left UNCZ to pursue a solo career.