Rude Kid

Grime: it’s not exactly an inspiring name for a genre of music, but it’s British and we love it. Other than conjuring nightmares of Kim and Aggy, Grime is also the freshest thing to come from British music in recent times.
So BBM sat down with one of the genre’s best producers, Rude Kid, and had a chat about DJ Hero, touring Australia, Zane Lowe getting DJ Hype for his new single coming out this month and what exactly ‘Alien Muzik’ is all about.

Hi Rude Kid, how’s it going?

Hello mate, all good, all good. I’ve just been relaxing at the moment.

What have you been doing today?

Today, I need to do a mix, I need to work on a remix and make sure that’s perfect.

Pretty busy then?

Yeah, keeping busy.

Have you had a good summer then so far, despite the rain?

Ah bruv, there’s only been one week of summer, this weather has been a killer. But it’s been alright, I suppose.

So, you’ve got a new single coming, ‘Get Busy’ Feat. Skepta, how did that collaboration come around?

Working with Skepta was all good. Skepta was a friend of mine anyway and we’ve done a lot of work in the past on Grime music. He always says in his interviews that he thinks I’m the best Grime producer, or one of the best to ever do it. We were speaking about that before and whilst I was making the record I thought the perfect person to get on the song was Skepta. So I just phoned him up, he liked the tune and two days later he was in the studio and we had the record.

So it was just like an easy thing then?

Yeah, that’s the thing, when your friends it’s not really a long procedure, it was just cool man.

You have worked with other big names on the scene such as: Wiley and Kano. What’s it like to be the go to producer in the Grime scene at the moment?

It feels good because when you start off no one really pays attention to you, or they don’t want to know and they don’t work on your music. What’s sad but true is a name counts for a lot. You can be a very, very good producer but if you don’t have a name then no one is really going to pay attention to you. So just making instrumentals and just getting DJs to play the, got my name heard more made people want to work over on my music. And it’s a good feeling because it too me quite a long while to do that. It’s always a good feeling when people pay attention to your music.

So how did you get it out there? Did you just make instrumentals for people and get it out that way?

Actually, you know when people say if you make good music you’re going to get heard? I think that’s so true because I didn’t know anyone at all. You know people know someone and then the get heard, but I really didn’t know anyone at all. I think it was just making good music and then giving it to one DJ and then other DJs play it and want it, it’s like a chain. Then everyone starts hearing it and you’ve just got to make good tunes and people just start taking notice.

Who would you say was your main competitor in the Grime scene at the moment?

I don’t really look at it like that. I just watch and support other producers instead of making it a competition. I see it as if I’m in a competition with another producer then I’m caring about them too much and not myself. So I support what they do and I do my own thing and I don’t compete with anyone. If another producer makes good tunes I’m not going think I need to make something better than that, I think: ‘That’s a good tune, I’m going to play it,’ that’s all.

You DJ as well?

Yeah, all the time. I’ve always been DJ-ing, but this year I’ve started doing it properly in the bookings. I’ve done Australia, toured there in January, which was a bit mad. I’ve done, Czech Republic, Amsterdam, Detonator Festival in Nottingham, Manchester. I’ve done a lot everywhere and I’ve got more bookings coming up.

What was your Tour of Australia like for you?

Australia was mental. It was the first time I’ve ever been that far away from home and I went there alone as well. It was a totally different experience. I was tired though. I only went for eight days doing shows there. It was a good experience; the weather was nice, obviously. It was good to see people out there that knew about my music. People were coming up to me saying: ‘We like your music’, and you think to yourself: ‘Wow, how do you know about it.’ It was amazing. But like I said it was a very tiring experience but good at the same time. It’s something I’ll never forget.

Did you get to do anything else out there other than playing shows and catching up on sleep?

We did a shopping trip once because we only had one day to spare. I only had one day of nothing to do, but we went on the Neighbours tour.

Oh really?

Yeah, I just thought: ‘Why not,’ I used to watch Neighbours when I was nine or ten-years-old. We went there and then we did a bit of shopping and that was it. Which is sad, but if I went there longer it would have been better. But they want me back at the end of this year or early next year.

What was your favourite place that you played in Oz?

My favourite place that I played was in Sydney. Sydney was mad. It was a small venue, but it was packed, so you could really feel the energy of everyone, it was mad.

I’ve heard people and yourself referring to your music as ‘Alien Muzik,’ what is ‘Alien Muzik’?

Basically, ‘Alien Muzik’ started when I started making music because I used to think my music was so different. I used to think would people get it because it was so different and the style was so different from everyone else. So I thought of ‘Alien Muzik’ and it let me put a team together of a few talented MCs. As the years went by some people stopped because not everyone wanted to continue their music, or they wanted to go down their own path. There are a few MCs left in the team and a few producers. But that’s what I call my music, ‘Alien Muzik’.

Zane Lowe recently put ‘Get Busy’ on his ‘Next Hype’ List and support from other influential DJs across the radio, what’s that feel like?

Zane Lowe is a big DJ and ‘Get Busy’ is the first song he has played of mine. It was a good feeling because, as you know, he’s one of the biggest DJS on Radio one and through that a lot of DJs caught on to the tune.

I heard you delayed ‘Get Busy’, why was that?

Basically it was a thing to do with the label and I wanted to change the riff and I wanted to sort out the vocals. I just wanted to make sure everything was right. But the original riff was a sample, but it’s not anymore, it’s mine. But I think it’s good that it got delayed because of the time. It’s the summer and it’s a summery tune, so I think it’s the perfect time to come out.

You’re also on ‘DJ Hero,’ how’d that come about?

Yeah, a song of mine with ‘Man Like Me’ and ‘JME’. I really don’t know how it happened. I think ‘Man Like Me’ got approached and they liked the remix. I haven’t really played the game though with the song.

Cool, so what’s next for Rude Kid?

The main thing is July 29, that’s when ‘Get Busy’ is out and after that I’ll be doing my second single. For now that’s the main project, but I’m working on a lot of
people’s singles and albums and DJing as well.

So keeping busy?

Yeah, you got to keep busy.

Cheers Rude Kid for talking to us.

No, thank you bruv, thanks for that.

By Phillip Andreas
@BlessMeUltima

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