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My music is truthful.
South-East London soul man
Joel Culpepper’s star is rising. His music is a heady mix of contemporary soul, flourishes of funk and an almost undefinable off-the-cuff energy that echoes grime and punk without any of the sonic cues associated with those genres.
Until recently, Joel had been balancing his music career with a full-time job as a learning mentor, supporting vulnerable children. He tells Clash, “It’s like putting out fires. It was like that every day. You get into it with the assumption that you re there to help the kids, but I think there s an exchange in that you learn a lot about yourself as well. But the music side … man I was I getting off planes from doing shows, and going straight into work. It just got to the point where I wasn’t doing either thing very well.”
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Away from his larger projects, West London-born rapper Fredo has spent much of the last few years in and out of the charts with tracks such as “Ay Carumba” with Young T & Bugsey, “Funky Friday” with Dave, and “So High” with Mist. It was a formula that seemed to be working well for him: draw them in with the pop hits and then get them hooked on the album. However, that seems to be behind him now and he was the first to admit that the most recent of those pop offerings, “Hickory Dickory Dock”, was a step too far.