Meridian Dan

Most widely known for his 2013 monitor “German Whip,” North London rapper Meridian Dan (aka Dan London) began his music career in the fringes from the dirt community years before his chart achievement. Dabbling with careers differing from electrician to coded welder, he was a peripheral person in the infamous Skepta and JME’s pre-Roll Deep and Guy Better Understand group Meridian Staff, where he was known merely as Dan. He guested on the verse on Skepta’s “Personal Caller” in 2005. Following this, he had taken a hiatus from music and focused on his boxing profession and also other interests. It had been only once a fellow previous person in Meridian Crew, Leader T, persuaded him to come back to music due to his skill that London made a decision to make another attempt in the music business. He became a member of a fresh grime collective known as Bloodline — which also included associates such as for example Bossman Birdie, Leader T, Big H, Paper Paps, and Milli Main — and started slowly functioning his method through the underground U.K. rap picture. His many years of determination and effort paid as the monitor “German Whip” offering Big H and JME became an enormous road anthem and a graph hit. Because of the success from the one, he agreed upon to PMR — whose roster included famous brands Jessie Ware and Disclosure — as well as the label reissued the one before readying his debut record, I Am London, for the mid-2014 release.