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Kamakaze and Massappeals Share Steel-Tipped Grime Anthem "Run 4 UR Money"

It's the latest single off their forthcoming collaborative EP on Astral Black titled 'Royal Blud.'
Album art courtesy of the label.

The Glasgow label Astral Black first made it on our radar with futuristic instrumental grime releases from the likes of DJ Milktray and Inkke. Recently the label has branched out with a series of collaborative vocal EPs, including projects from JD. Reid and ItsNate as well as Slugabed and Ed Scissor. Their latest offering continues in this vein, pairing up the producer Massappeals with an MC named Kamakaze for an EP titled Royal Blud. Kamakaze has a cool background—when he's not burning up the mic as a rising grime star, he's also a midfielder on the professional UK football team Dagenham & Redbridge.

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The EP drops tomorrow, and today we're blessed to share a single called "Run 4 UR Money." The beat combines snippets of classic grime square-wave synths with a bassline that knocks like a steel-tipped battering ram. Kamakaze pulls no punches in his lyrical assault, threatening to grab a bar of soap and "rinse out the mouth" of any would-be hater.

"This tune is one of the hardest hitting on the EP," the MC explained over email. "Massappeals murdered the production and I brought the energy, it's very mad indeed."

Check out the tune below, and pre-order the EP here.