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Welcome to Brixton", his breakout single, was released in July 2020, [1] which charted on the UK Singles Chart on 20 May 2021 and peaked at number 93. [5] As of January 2022, “Welcome to Brixton” has received over 65 million views on YouTube and over 200 million streams on Spotify and Apple Music.
Brixton in South London was an area with serious social and economic problems. [6] The United Kingdom was affected by a recession by 1981, but the local African-Caribbean community was suffering particularly high unemployment, poor housing, and a higher-than-average crime rate.
GAS Gang, also known more simply as GG or GAS, was a British street gang based in Brixton, South London that formed sometime in the late 2000s. The name carries various different meanings, such as Guns And Shanks, Gangsters Always Shoot, Grip And Shoot, and Grind And Stack.
The Brixton Riot are a four-piece rock band from New Jersey that formed in 2006. The name is a reference to the 1981 altercation between police and residents of the South London neighborhood, as well as a nod to English rock band the Clash's song "The Guns of Brixton."
"The Guns of Brixton" is a song by the English punk rock band the Clash, originally released on their 1979 album London Calling. It was written and sung by bassist Paul Simonon, who grew up in Brixton, South London. The song has a strong reggae influence, reflecting the culture of the area and the reggae gangster film The Harder They Come.
Following Jaja's release from prison, he encouraged members of the gang to do more positive things with their lives and started up a music label instead, called "PDC (Public Demand Cartel) Entertainments", [20] led by Jaja and former gang members Najar Kerr (also known as Naja Soze), Byron Cole, Nathan Cross (Inch), Sykes, Errol Cole, Michael ...
In 1997, the band played a concert at Brixton Prison (which was later released as a live EP), and shortly afterwards flew to New York to record their second album, this time produced by ex-Butthole Surfer, and Shimmy Disc owner Kramer. The album When Animals Attack was recorded in three weeks at Noise New Jersey, and released the following spring.
At a young age Sneakbo listened to the late rapper Tupac Shakur and pop star Michael Jackson. [4] Sneakbo is of Nigerian descent. [5] Sneakbo claims in his "Closer (Documentary)" that he founded the GAS (I.e., "Grind and Stack"/"Guns and Shanks" Gang) after one of his friends/fellow gang members got derecruited from a local Brixton Gang so he co-founded his own Gang. [6]