Gifted Rapper Takes Shots At Huddah,Mustapha and Octopizzo

Alex Red is a multi-talented African artist, born on the 9th of March 1994 and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, he started to make music at the age of 9 when he began to take piano lessons, from moving Keys he started to writing songs, rapping at the age of 14 and making beats at 16.

He is influenced by producers who have managed to be successful rappers and vice versa from Dr.Dre to Kanye West and aspires to be successful at both.

He started rapping as a way to pass time in boarding school stating “There was no TV, no video games just books to read and a movie every weekend so it naturally became a thing that almost every dude in my class did..” and as his classmates dropped the art gradually, he continued to build on it and under the moniker Lil Balla, he formed a group with rappers from different classes known as D-Tox with whom he recorded his 1st project known as “The Third Decree”. It only had 3 songs in it which he hated after the group fell out.

He graduated and put together a DIY home studio (they used a PlayStation 2 sing-star microphone to record) with producer P.H.D who was also a member of D-Tox and his classmate and together they started to work on a series of tracks naming their label Disturbing Africa, it was during this time that Red learnt how to produce with P.H.D teaching him the basics.

Alex Says “he gave me the basics, the rest was just spending hours working on it, i thought it was a good idea cause then i wouldn’t have to spend money on beats and i wouldn’t need anyone else to put together a good track, i could do it on my own”
This phase of his career ended and he stopped working with P.H.D regularly. Red has since started a movement “Youth In Revolt” and he released his debut mixtape “The Black Bruce Wayne” in April 2013, he also directed his debut music video ‘How it Feel’ which got over 49,000 views on youtube.

You can check it out below
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He is currently working on a album “Youth In Revolt”. The first support single for the project ‘P3’ featured BET award nominated artist Thee MC Africa (2012 nominee for best international act Africa as Taio Tripper from the group Camp Mulla), this was followed by Thirsty and his most recent release the controversial ‘Look Mom, Im On TV’ which featured Alex taking shots at various music industry figures which resulted in an interview on KISS 100 in early 2014 with Adelle Onyango.

Check out his latest video here:

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