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The Ruby Kid
12+ albums
spoken wordrappoliticalHip-Hopabstract hip-hop
about
The Ruby Kid is a twenty-four year old hip-hop artist and spoken-word poet, based in London but originally from Nottingham (via Sheffield and with roots in New York's Jewish community). As a surly adolescent, The Ruby Kid divided his time between listening to American independent hip-hop (think Aesop Rock, El-P and Atmosphere) and causing trouble as an anti-capitalist political activist in various trade union and working-class campaigns. Now that he’s outgrown his adolescence, he plans to spend the remainder of his life in more-or-less the same fashion. Cutting his rap teeth battling at his Nottingham comprehensive, The Ruby Kid began recording in 2007 after moving to Sheffield to study English Literature at university. A substantial local profile and following soon developed, as Steel City music fans gravitated towards something unorthodox, leftfield and radical in a scene dominated by generic indie rock on the one hand and bassline-influenced grime and garage on the other. 2008 saw him perform at countless live venues throughout Sheffield, as well as clocking up gigs in London and Nottingham. These included packed shows at Sheffield’s The Plug alongside grime superstars Wiley and Skepta, at which The Ruby Kid performed to audiences of over 800. His first release, the free five-track demo 'La Manif' garnered effusive praise from the local music press and prompted a reviewer at the well-respected Sandman Magazine to compare him to both Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg in the sa
