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welcome to So De Jaker on songgrating episode 83 and our first show of 2016.

Oh yeah! songwriting episode 83 and our first show of 2016.

Oh yeah!

Joining us to Let the New Year in here at Soderger Towers is a British rapper and

spoken word artist who's breathtaking verbal dexterity and sharp social commentary have

been devoted following since he first came to public attention in the late noughties.

More recently he's entered the world of podcasting and you could say he's really quite good at it.

Yep, his excellent distraction pieces podcast is a mainstay in the upper echelons of the iTunes charts

at one stage even knocking serial off its perch at number one. Damn him. We are delighted to welcome the brilliant scroubious

pip to the show. No mean feat to topple cereal from the top spot is it?

It certainly isn't and by all accounts they were furious. I heard Sarah Konek put out a contract on

him well podcasting's a cutthroat industry remember when we were accused of making those

threatening late night phone calls to the guy from song-exploder which the police could

never prove I might add anyway we'll talk to our guest in just a couple of minutes but first a bit of background info. Scrubius Pipp was born David Meads in Essex in 1981. He was a punk music fan as a teenager and

messed around in various guitar bands before discovering a love of hip-hop,

jazz and spoken word. He started rapping in his late teens but it wasn't until

a few years later that he began to take it seriously and also started to write his own poetry,

recristening himself scrooby as Pip after an Edward Lear poem in 2006 he quit his job in his local

H.M. V. and devoted the next 12 months to developing his craft.

He performed whenever and wherever he could and he also made his first solo album, No Commercial

Breaks, which he released in a limited run of just a thousand copies.

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