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Artist
Mark Henry
12+ albums
Grimerapurbanhip hopUK hip hop
about
In an age where most rappers claim to have come from the dirt, rapper/entrepreneur Mark Henry truly has. Escaping the civil war in Nigeria in the 1980’s Henry and his family came to the UK in search of a better life. One where warfare and gun fire would not be the norm…… a life that would shape who Mark Henry was to become….. Growing up in North London Mark Henry always had a fascination with music. At home his family would play classics from Fela Kuti, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Otis Reading and the Motown and Stax stables. However it was whilst at school in the mid nineties that Henry’s passion for music truly developed when he was introduced to Drum and Bass. Listening to the famous Cool FM to catch the hottest lyrics, scribbling them in his notepad to go to school the next day and spit for his peers, Henry had begun the journey that would eventually lead to his career. It was 1996 when a family friend introduced him to Hip Hop that the life of Mark Henry would never be the same. After being played some Cool G Rap, Henry fell in love with the music. Inspired by the likes of Nas, Mobb Deep, Tragedy Ghadaffi and more Henry became obsessed with the life and the rhymes that the Queensbridge rappers were spitting. “I was obsessed to the point that I felt like I knew them. When some of those artists passed away it affected me like they were part of my circle.” The more Henry got into Hip Hop the more he discovered, finding the mic skills of Tupac, Big Pun, Biggie, Big L, Wu T
