Jalporte has been busy since we interviewed him and here we have a few quick tidbits of info regarding what he has in the pipeline. New live show dates have gone up on Jalporte's Myspace page, further details of all the events will be posted on the ‘appearance page’ on www.jalporte.co.uk.
‘One of the best British emcee’s to date’ is the words HHC Magazine chose to describe rapper, singer, songwriter and producer 10Shott. Since he debuted all those years ago with the now classic ‘Bagged Out’ album with his crew Vicious Circle, 10Shott has really put himself on the UK Rap map with support on Kiss FM, HHB Radio, BBC 1Xtra, Galaxy FM and Conspiracy Radio.
As a solo artist, the name Jalporte might not ring too many bells. He has had a free demo CD called “Dubstates” out, and was originally one of the four members of the “Deprogrammed” crew. For about the last five years Jalporte as been doing a great deal of live shows and now he is dropping his first full solo EP.
Jalporte from Derby has been putting it around for a while now and making a name for himself around the midlands. He is linked closely with Deprogrammed and has worked with Gnostix, but now his solo career is set to launch and so britishhiphop.co.uk had to catch up with him. Check out what he had to say...
Patriot was born as Jamie David Oldnall on the 19th of June 1986 in Birmingham, England. From a young age music and theatre became a big part of his life, and from the age of five Jamie started writing songs and gained a great obsession with expressing his emotions through theatrical attributes.