Genesis Elijah Teams Up With Plan B For Ill Manors Remix

It's been a big 2012 for Genesis Elijah and it just keep's getting better. This time Genesis hooked up with Dubbledge for the remix to Plan B's smash single 'Ill Manors'.

Genesis Elijah Releases 'Painkillers & Pilkington' EP

Genesis Elijah has released the 'Painkillers & Pilkington' EP in the run up towards his forthcoming full length album 'I Ain't Even Started Bruv'. 

Tracklist

1. Falling (Rearranged By Pastor Dutchie)

2. Psalms (Produced By Pastor Dutchie)

3. My Truth (Produced By Pastor Dutchie)

4. Never Say When (Produced By Pastor Dutchie)

5. Huey (Produced By Pastor Dutchie)

Thank you's

@PastorDutchie @TerryHooligan @LastResortUK @RuthlessDB @EscapeRouteUK @RickyGervais

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Ricky Gervais Endorses Genesis Elijah's New Track

It's not everyday that the Hollywood A list elite and the UK underground Hip-Hop scene cross paths but today was this day.

Ricky Gervais, who is getting ready to host the 69th Golden Globe awards next month had found himself involved in a bit of controversy again over comments made on twitter yesterday. As always his fans came to his defence and one of those fans just happened to be UK rapper Genesis Elijah.

Genesis Elijah tweeted Ricky Gervais with a quote from one of his songs saying "If you don't like what I tweet then unfollow and block" along with a link to the video of his song titled 'My Truth'

To Genesis Elijah's surprise Ricky Gervais then retweeted it to over a million of his twitter followers adding the word "Inspiring"

Genesis then messaged back saying "Hope you liked the track. Thanks" to which Ricky Gervais replied...

Genesis Elijah is now only the 31st person to be followed on twitter by Ricky Gervais.

The song 'My Truth' which features a vocal sample of Ricky Gervais has seen a massive increase in views since being shared and is now tipped to be one of Genesis Elijah's most watched videos

The song will feature on Genesis Elijah's forthcoming EP 'Painkillers & Pilkington' who's title is a nod to Karl Pilkington who along with Steven Merchant featured on The Ricky Gervais Show podcast

Genesis Elijah Joins The UK Hip-Hop Elite To Celebrate Black History Month

Unity is rare in UK Hip-Hop and positivity is even more scarce so it's big look when some of the biggest names in the scene get together to push a positive message. 'This Is Black History' features activist Jody McIntyre, MC's Logic, Big Ben, Jaja Soze, bigCAKES, Genesis Elijah, MC D, Cerose, Big Frizzle, Wordplay, Haze, USG, Rodney P and Akala. The track was produced by Last Resort and video was filmed by Global Faction. Please share and enjoy...

*NEW VIDEO* Genesis Elijah 'Falling' feat James Blake

OK so YouTube f*cked us over but Vimeo came to save the day. This is Genesis Elijah's reworking of James Blake's already amazing song The Wilhelm Scream. After putting it out on SoundCloud last month and seeing the overwhelming reception of his version Genesis decided to give it a visual and put it up for free download. Of course we wont get the kind of views we'd normally get on YouTube because of the limiting format but that's cool with us. Please watch it, download it, share it...

Genesis Elijah - Falling from Genesis Elijah on Vimeo.

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 Falling feat James Blake by GenesisElijah

Raiders Of The Lost iPod Volume 1 Released

Over a year after Genesis Elijah first put out the idea of putting out all his old unheard, unfinished and unmixed tracks the Raiders Of The Lost iPod is finally here! While Genesis Elijah was AWOL 2006-2009 apparently he was still recording tracks but they just weren't being released. He touched on the subject on his track 'Keep Going' off the 'Before I Was Famous' album saying "Every time I went to make a tune, the producers I was working with didn't wanna produce/ so many tracks stuck on hard drives never used" and I'm gueesing he wasn't exaggeration because rumour has it that he's dug up 60 of these tracks and will be giving them away to the fans of his music.

Artwork by  Dave Mastaglio

So here's the first instalment. I have to say it's a shame some of these tracks are only seeing the light of day now because they are FIRE!. Stand out tracks being Liar Liar, As Real As It Gets and The Way We Are.

Anyway check it out and hear some of the best Genesis Elijah tracks never heard...

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Genesis Elijah Has His Say On MTV Base's Best Of The Best UK MC's 2010

So last night the world of urban music was whipped in to a frenzy when some of the most influential people in the industry sat down to discuss who they thought were the best MC's of 2010. Opinions got shared, feelings got hurt, twitter went nuts and Ghetts went wild. Here's Genesis Elijah's view on the issue.

Eminem - Difficult feat Genesis Elijah

Genesis Elijah throws a quick hook over Eminem's tribute to Proof.

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New Year, New Video, New Drive. Watch What I Do...

Happy new year to you all! Hope you had a good holiday. There was no time for festivities over here cos in came G.E we were recording track's shooting and editing video's and getting ready to go harder than ever before. Anyway as Klashnekoff say's "Fuck the long talk" and let's start 2011 as we mean to go on. Watch what I do...

Genesis Elijah + Krate Krusaders Album 'Before I Was Famous' Released

It's finally here people! Yes it's been a long road but the 'Before I Was Famous' album is now available to buy.

It's funny cos this project started out as a quick EP and snow balled into what has become a major underground release. Anyway I hope you like it cos I enjoyed making it. Shout to everyone involved in making and promoting it. Back in a bit...

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NEW VIDEO : GENESIS ELIJAH x KRATE KRUSADERS "DOING MY DAMN THING"

JUST GONE LIVE TONIGHT. THE OFFICIAL HI DEFINITION VIDEO FOR THE SINGLE "DOING MY DAMN THING" BY GENESIS ELIJAH x KRATE KRUSADERS

DROPS ON 15TH NOVEMBER 2010 ON OUTTA TOWN SOUNDS

TAKEN FROM THE ALBUM "BEFORE I WAS FAMOUS" OUT 6TH DECEMBER 2010

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NEW GENESIS ELIJAH + KRATE KRUSADERS SINGLE 'DOING MY DAMN THING' ANNOUNCED

The first single from the forthcoming Genesis Elijah + Krate Krusaders album 'Before I Was Famous' has been announced! 'Doing My Damn Thing' will be released on the 15th of November with the video coming soon after

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'DOING MY DAMN THING' IS OUT ON THE 15TH OF NOVEMBER



Genesis Elijah Opens Bandcamp Site With A Bang

Last night Genesis Elijah decided to set up a Bandcamp site but instead of just putting up music the fans already had he decided to put up a rare lost EP called 'Pimp Principle'

The 5 track EP was well received buy his supporters and was downloaded over 200 times within a matter of hours.

The EP was originally released in 2005 but fell of the radar after Genesis Elijah's website GenesisElijah.com was taken off line after a label change. He told a fan on facebook that he hadn't heard it himself in four years. Check out WWW.GENESISELIJAH.BANDCAMP.COM for this free download.

New Video From Genesis Elijah & Danny Bones 'Let Me'

Genesis Elijah is back and this time he's teamed up with FLIP soldier Danny Bones.

The new song 'Let Me' is taken from the new Danny Bones mixtape 'Indiana Bones And The Temple Of Boom'.

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New Genesis Elijah Track 'Still Here' Gets The Industry Talking

Earlier last week Genesis Elijah put up a link to a song that he had done for Professor P's mixtape 'Pro P Files Vol 2'. Not long after the song had the internet buzzing with people discussing the concept and context of the the track.

The song 'Still Here' basically talks about how the UK Hip-Hop scene has changed over the last few years and explains why it's still relevant. Genesis comments on the changing landscape with lines like "Things done changed, the Terra Firma line up's different. Kyza's with Orphans of Cush and they're killing it" which is a direct reference to the much publicised Terra Firma brake up.

Other artist shouted out on this track include The Peoples Army, Lowkey, Logic, Mr Drastic, Joker Starr, Shystie, Giggs, Scorsayzee, Sway, Task Force, Mud Fam, Blak Twang, Rodney P, Estelle, Tinchy Stryder & Stig Of The Dump.

The track is doing the rounds on the net right now as well as getting a lot of love on the radio so check it out and see what all the fuss is about.

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Vintage Genesis Elijah Footage

The year was around 2000 and a group of MC's known as the Boiler Room Collective stood at the gates of the UK Hip-Hop kingdom ready to storm the castle...Or something like that.

I have to admit this was probably the best time of my life as far as being able to make music when I wanted (I lived with producer Tom Caruana) and being around creative people. We all lived around North West London at the time and all we did was write rhymes, make tracks and perform at local events. The main Boiler Room Collective members were Tom Caruana, Drama, Teej, Ahmos, AC, Terra Slim, and Me. Overqualified ( Crucifix & Tsunami NKA Bounce) were also affiliates along with Red Master, Syntax and a few other that I can't really remember.

Anyway here's the footage...




So I guess the question is where are they all now? Well lets go through the list...


AC & Terra went on to release two albums and have sold around 50,000 copies around the UK and europe. AC and Terra Slim have since gone their separate ways and have been releasing solo projects for the last three years. Terra Slim is currently living and working with a label out it Amsterdam.


Ahmos went on to become a sound engineer and producer working with artist from all over the world. He released some tracks with Roots Manuva's label Banana Klan and is recording a album with them at the moment as well as sound engineering for various UK television channels.


Teej went to india to work with orphans and is currently a hippie...Nah jokes (The hippie part not the kids part, he really did help kids) I'm not sure what he's up to. Probably killing mics somewhere...


DR Syntax hooked up with some guy called Stig and they have pretty much been running the underground scene ever since.


Overqualified went there separate ways. Crucifix has just put out a sick EP The Cornerstone with The Krate Krusaders and Tsunami changed his name to Bounce and is currently making some banging beats.


The last time I saw Drama was in Harrow about 5 years ago. Not sure what he's up to.


And last but not least the man who made it happen Tom Caruana. He's been running Tea Sea records for the last few years and making some pretty sick music.


Oh I almost forgot about the young skinny 20 year old with the bunches in his hair they called Genesis Elijah. Well he went on to release a little album called 'Deh Pon Road' then a mixtape then...You'll have to keep checking this blog for the rest of his story.


Big shout to all The Boiler Room Collective and all the old affiliates. Thanks for the memories, 

Genesis Elijah Leaks Track From New Mixtape

Here it is as promised peeps! I would have got it up earlier but I had go ASDA this morning...Any who. This is track taken from my almost half finished mixtape 'I Ain't Even Started Bruv'. It's produced by the great Dead Man Walkin and video will be out real soon. I'm sorry to say that this will be the last FREE download I'll be putting out from this mixtape so if you want anymore freebies you'll have to get them illegally like everyone else...Or you could just buy it when it comes out. Ether way here it is. Feel free to blog it, share it, post it or just play it at full volume so everyone here's it! Blessings people! Shout to Flex at One Time Records who recorded, mixed this!

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Genesis Elijah To Headline Hoochino Live In May

Genesis Elijah continues to prove that this is indeed his year. He's gone from retirement (of sorts) to supporting and now he's headlining.

Catch him live on the 7th of May at The Vibe Bar along side AC and DJ Boothy. Also performing on the night are DRAY DELTA & G RANGE (NO LABELS), DEFDFIRES, GUARDIANS OF THE ANCIENT WISDOM, THEATRE OF THE ABSURD (SANDMAN + BILL DAGGS), DEADFAGIN, SEEDY RON and BOBBY BANGERMAN. The night is also hosted by super producer Nutty P.


ADDRESS: VIBE BAR,Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London, United Kingdom

Genesis Elijah Featured On The New Big Cakes Preheat Mixtape

There's been a lot of hype around this release and now it's finally here. Big Cakes has been making a lot of noise on the scene and has proved himself to be one of the most prolific and consistent in the game.

 
Preheat is definitely a mixtape that any self respecting Hip-Hop head will want to have in their collection. It features some of the best in the scene including a killer track with Genesis Elijah.

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New Logic & Genesis Elijah Track 'What We Do'

Peoples Army General Logic and affiliate Genesis Elijah have teamed up on this crazy track! Logic & Genesis Elijah are two of the most respected rappers in the UK and this track demonstrates why.

'What We Do' was recorded a while back but just goes to show how ahead of their time and ahead of the game they are!

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