DEVLIN’S forthcoming single ‘Runaway’ has notch up 1,017,818 views on YouTube before its release on Sunday 24th October.
He has had over 8.5 million Devlin related view on Youtube to date for previous videos, freestyles and content.
Community Outcast – 1,056,743 views
London City – 2,305,844 views
Giant – 866,158 views
Shot Music ft. Giggs – 544,972 views
His Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/officialdevlin#p/f
‘Runaway’ ft Yasmin – Sunday 24th October 2010
‘whip-smart Eminem of Essex…caustic urban realism…undeniable strife-born brilliance’
Q
‘sharp and informed’
The Independent
‘this Dagenham rapper’s music is a bittersweet symphony…a cinematic view of life in London’
‘one of the few MCs daring to say something different’
Dazed & Confused
‘a powerful lyricist with a social conscience’
Metro
‘undiluted street music’
NME
‘A 21-year-old MC from Dagenham; scabrously witty and precociously talented’
The Observer New Review
‘with over 3 million Youtube views in the last year, Devlin was always going to be No.1 on our list for underground artists to blow up in 2010’
RWD
‘he reminds me of Mike Skinner at his best’
The Sun
‘rising grime star making the transition from the underground to the mainstream’
Wonderland
‘one of best talents to come out of the UK’
Tim Westwood, Radio 1/ 1Xtra
‘Runaway’ is Devlin’s single leading into debut album ‘bud, sweat & beers’ and showcases the spectacular lyrical skill that has made him one of 2010 most fancied.
Turning the grime of Dagenham into poetic metaphors, Biblical references, quick jokes, razor-sharp verbal sketches– all Devlin’s tropes as a writer are present. He densely packs them into one of his most blissed-out mid-summer tracks, with enchanting vocals provided by the rising songstress Yasmin and production by duo Future Cut.
A vision of modern London’s ‘dark and deadly maze’, dreaming of ‘paradise’ through the gates of Victoria station, Devlin is a singular talent.
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