Professor Green

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Name = Professor Green


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Origin = London, England
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Genre = Electronica, UK garage, Hip Hop
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Years_active = 2001 - present
Label = The Beats
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URL = [http://www.professorgreen.co.uk/ www.professorgreen.co.uk]
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Professor Green (born November 27 1983, East London UK) is an English professional rapper who was signed to The Beats, a record label run by Mike Skinner and Ted Mayhem, until February 12 2008. He won the inaugural JumpOff MySpace £50,000 battle rap tournament in July 2008.

He started MC rapping at the age of 18, and released his first mix tape, Lecture#1, in 2006. He is currently making a new album, called Lecture#2, although the release has come into doubt after Warner Music Group, the company financing The Beats, closed all their deals with sublabels.

Pre Rapping

Professor Green was born in East London to a mother of just 16 years old. He had a traumatic childhood, as his dad was an alcoholic, leaving the family when Green was still a young boy, leaving it mainly up to his grandmother to raise him. He was brought up in a council flat in Upper Clapton, and he later wrote a song called Upper Clapton Dance, a tribute to his former home.

Early career

When Professor Green was just 18 he started rapping as an MC. In his career as an MC he won over 100 battles, and claimed his status as the worlds 2nd best MC in the Power Summit 50k battle in the Bahamas, losing out to favourite Jin in the final after beating many other of America, and the Worlds, top MCs.

He broke many records while he was an MC, including becoming the first rapper to win The Jump Off 7 weeks in a row, completing the feat twice. He is still the only person in the world to have done this.

In 2007 Professor Green spent 13 months hosting part of a new radio show on Radio 1, called "In New DJ's We Trust". This show was a late night show, held on Friday nights.

Professor Green appears on one of the final tracks of "The Twangs" album. A remix of Either Way featuring Mike Skinner

Discography

Albums

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ee also

* The Beats (record label)
* The Streets

External links

* [http://www.professorgreen.co.uk/ Professor Green official website]
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