Saprize

rapcore

1993 – the year of „Judgement Night“, the year, when Punk broke. A bunch of young fellows, mostly stemming from the Bremen (Germany) Hardcore-Scene, where they spent years shaping their minds and skills playing ultra-fast Hardcore music, discovered their common love for HipHop. Boldly mixing Slayer-Riffs, big bad beats and a great laugh (occasionally at themselves), MC Uzi, Ben, Gregcore, The Menace and Da Romeo became pioneers of the new style: the combination of Metal and Rap. Taking the best of both worlds, they offered an energetic stage performance and an adventurous musical approach, channeling the new knowledge of beats and samples through the depths of their eclectic record collections, thus creating a style of their own. They were the punks among the hiphoppers. After their debut, recorded only two months after the band was started, „Alwaysacutahead“, released on a small indie label two months before (!) „Judgement Night came out, the German branch of Rough Trade signed the band before anybody else could. The band – now without Da Romeo – flew to London to record „No“ in 1994, taking the band on the road with heavyweights like Boo Yaa Tribe, Chumbawumba, Consolidated, Dubwar, Gunshot, Headcrash and others, even Grandmaster Flash had the honour of sharing the stage with Saprize. Shortly after, MC Uzi decided to split and play Hardcore again with his band Queerfish, Chris from Killa Instinct joined the bunch, which recorded the third album „28203...