A face on the scene for a good few years now ,INC seems to be standing out at the minute as an individual with a promising path ahead. Known for being a battle mc on the London scene and supporting major acts such as Datsik, Necro, Rusko, Plastician, Caspa, Hatcha, Ghetto, Devlin,Virus Syndicate, Andy C, Foreign Beggars, The Pharcyde, Stenchman, Jehst, Skepta, JME, Jammer, DMZ, Datsik,Logan D, Klashnekoff, Sukh Night, GDC, (thats a fucking lot) and the legendary Taskforce. With animal delivery and wordplay which i can easily describe as frightingly vile (in other words SICK) im looking forward to hearing and seeing more. I caught up with him so as he could give us a little round up of whats been and whats to come.
Now a lot of people will be aware of you from being a battle champ in the JumpOff league, whats your feelings on the current leagues like dont flop and End of the Weak which you placed in a couple of years ago?
Yea i used to do a few of the battles like JumpOff, Lyric Pad, Battlescars but they all seemed to die and i lost interest and now this whole new scene has popped up. I used to watch some of the Dont Flop ones and to be honest i think its pretty appalling, i cant watch them anymore. Its like Cuthbert and the gang have discovered rap i just cant do it. Apart from Tenchoo and the Liverpool guy Oshea who is probably the funniest person alive i cant cosign it. As for EOW i love that stuff. I think what Snuff and those guys have brought to the table is QUALITY. I'd probably look to enter again 'cause its a lot of fun to enter.
EOW Acapella Round Video
How do you feel that the majority of the battles are pre prepared as opposed from on the spot improvised?
Even when the battles used to be 'freestyle' everyone had some lines to fall back on. I don't really care if its all written if its still good, but it can become a bit boring when there's no spontaneity involved.
Now it could be seen that you've moved away from the hip hop side of things to the grime/dub step, why is this?
UK Hip Hop seemed to die out a while ago, it became boring for me a few years ago listening to same shit, people moaning about shit i couldn't give a fuck about. Grime brought a bit of life back into music for me. I also started a night in Leeds called Vagabondz back in 2007 which catered a lot for the dub step fans so this in a way forced me to listen to more of it. Over the last 2 years I've been doing a lot of radio both pirate and Internet streams with hightzlive.co.uk and dubstepfm.co.uk which are run by my DJ, Jacko. You can catch his sets on Friday 10-12pm and Saturday 12pm-2am.
INC Fire in the booth video
What currently has been your favourite / most memorable moment for you while doing this music ting?
Playing in Croatia at Outlook Festival 2008,2009 and 2010 were all amazing times.
Any time playing abroad are the best gigs for some reason. I played a show in Slovenia a month ago which was also one for the books, the crowds in Europe have no inhibitions and just go sick.
Whats should people be expecting to see from you, any releases/ gigs coming up?
Release wise i've got an album coming out with Higher Elements and Brisk which is mainly grime with a bit of dub step. That's got features from Byron, Illaman, Rowdy, Marvill and Shatterstar from Sheffield with production mainly from Higher Elements but there'll probably be a couple others in there too from Red Skull, Diverse Concepts, Formula (LDZ), and Whisker Twister from Israel. Ive got a feature on Dilligence's album which features everyone big in UK hip hop and a couple things coming out with Ral Dukes from the Squid Ninjas.
Follow INC and find out about future ish at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/INC-Music/157382577640185
and for good measure heres the soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/inc-music
