Peter King --------------------------------------
Peter King started off MCing in 1981 as a 19 year old youth at the legendary UK
soundsystem Saxon. In those early days he was sparring with the Saxon MC Papa
Levy and one of Peter's first tunes was "Ganja Business A Money Business". Peter's
device was that lyrics, instead of just being endless but sensless rhymes, should
tell
a story even for people to identify with. Peter King is famous and known as the
originater of a style – the fast chat style.
In '82 he was the first MC to do that style with the tune called "Me Neat, Me Sweet".
After mashing it up on Saxon with this tune artists like Smiley Culture, Asher Senator,
Tippa Irie or Papa Levy soon adopted the fast chat, wich was getting big all over and
quickly spread to Jamaica and influenced jamaican DJ's a lot. This style is the
precursor of today's drum and bass MCing as well.
It is known that around 1983 some of the Saxon MC's started a crew called "Crucial
Posse" involving Peter King along with Maxi Priest, Papa Levy, Smiley Culture and
Asher Senator. Some of those MC's went back to Saxon later.
From '84 to '85 Peter King worked with the UK based recordlabel Fashion. The
tunes
"10 Commandments Of An MC", "Step On The Gas", "Me Neat Me Sweet"
and "Bad Memory" were
released as 12inches.
Today Peter King is working as a painter and carpenter in south London and his tune
"Teach Dem Fi Read, Write & Spell" was the first one to be released on record since
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