INTRODUCING [SERIES 1: BLOG 3]: IZZIE GIBBS

Izzie Gibbs is a young MC from Northampton who has recently been creating a stir within the Midlands grime scene. Izzie is part of a grime collective known as East On The Map (EOTM) which includes other names such as Statz, Lox and other local MC's in the Northampton area. Izzie comes across as a fearless MC looking to get his name out there through deep content and sending.

Izzie has featured on Words Are Weapons on various occasions. WAW is a platform for artists to jump on to competitive grime clashes and to show lyrical ability. The Northampton MC has also recently featured on Silk City Radio's Prize Fighter 2 hosted by DJ Big Mikee. Izzie has performed freestyles for P110 Media, JDZ, GrimeBlog and other Midlands based Media channels showing he is fairly established this early on in his career. Izzie also jumped on the War Dub hype and released a track entitled Leng which didn't really get much of a response in truth however that is possibly because the names he was mentioning are thought of as levels above him. However in my opinion Izzie could hold it up against the majority of grime MC's nowadays and it was an opportunity which you have to admire Izzie for taking.

The video at the top of the page features Izzie's Shutdown Sessions for ImpactTV and this video is proof of how far he is come, for me at least this is one of the strongest performances he has come with and is certainly shines a glimmer of hope for Izzie's future. There is no doubt that Izzie has an eloquent flow but he has not always known how to control this flow tending to spray off beat in some instances as Sykx highlighted when he clashed Izzie on WAW. He went hard in the video the only criticism I would have of Izzie is that in some instances his bars do tend to be immature and he could come with some harder content as we've seen in other videos.

Izzie's upcoming project A.D.H.D is out soon. He is also due to feature on WAW against Highlife's Eze which is one to look out for.
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