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He started up his own promotion company called Matrix and held another sell-out event at the Ministry Of Sound over Christmas 2001. This year, Shabba promoted his own event in conjunction with Telepathy at Club EQ and over 2500 people rammed out the East London venue. But by 2001 the scene had picked up again in London with regular events at the Stratford Rex, The Lighthouse and Bagleys. Kool FM also ran their own DJ and MC agency “Jungle Fever Agency” which took over the MC Shabba D artiste representation.īy 97, the Drum n Bass scene was becoming quiet in the UK (with many producers switching to Uk Garage) but beginning to boom overseas and Shabba was travelling extensively and becoming an important MC name across the whole world. In 96 he was approached by Kool FM (94.5), who were the number one Jungle and Drum n Bass station. The DTI finally closed Weekend Rush down in 94 and shabba stayed on the same 92.3FM frequency but this time for Kick FM. He also played a residency at "The Morning After" in Covent Garden which ran every Sunday morning from 7am till midday.ĭuring 93 and 94, he had moved back to Weekend Rush and in 94 he linked up with Jungle producer Paul Ibiza and released his first single with Junior Dangerous called "Dont Get Me Mad". In 1992, he started a weekly Friday night residency at Club Telepathy and spent 4 years working with DJs like Andy C, Funky Flirt, Devious D, Brockie, Kenny Ken, and Grooverider and alongside other MCs like The Ragga Twins, Det, Navigator and fellow resident MC, the late Stevie Hyper D. Shabba was now rubbing shoulders with some of the major players within the scene at the time like Jumping Jack Frost, DJ Rap and Ray Keith. His first experience of MCing onstage was at a club called Busbys at a weekly Friday night event called “Outrage” where he also became a resident MC in 1991. This was followed by a regular marathon Saturday night set from 12 – 6am where he would MC and also DJ. His mother knew the owner of the pirate radio station Weekend Rush (93.2 fm) and got her son his first break on the radio in the earlier part of 1991 with the legendary jungle DJ Remarc doing a 2 hour set together. Rave organisations like Biology, Fantastic Ibiza, and Fantasia. Radio stations like Fantasy FM and Dance FM.
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Labels like Shut Up and Dance, Tam Tam and Reinforced. He was 13 in 1990 when the underground dance revolution started spawning clubs and labels and pirate radio stations like never before. As kids they would copy the Jamaican deejays and freestyle their own lyrics and rhymes. He grew up mostly in East London among a crowd of friends whose greatest musical influences were coming straight out of Jamaica and out of the UK-based Reggae Sound Systems, like Saxon. MC Shabba D has been one of the top Jungle/Drum n Bass MCs for the best part of 15 years and yet he is still on the sunny side of 30.