1Xtra Live was in Birmingham on Tuesday and, as well as bringing Nero, Skream and J Cole with them, they featured some local talent including a rapper called C4.
Not the easiest name to Google for, but the website’s at oorite.com, here’s his Soundcloud account (with a fairly lengthy bio as well as some tracks to listen to), he’s @C4_OoRITE on Twitter, here’s a link to the OoRITE mixtape and here’s a couple of videos. The first is for a track called Detention and was filmed by Blue Hippo Media:
And here’s another for About2Goin:
What’s more, his brother is Preditah, a producer who’s been doing very well for himself lately too.
One more thing about 1Xtra – they had a get-together with artists, producers, DJs and others on Tuesday lunchtime. The message was that they want to play more music from outside of London, so get in touch with someone there directly or go though BBC Introducing.