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 He's got a Visa to Rock, he's smooth like a cello, and he's going to drop a bomb in your ego - Overlord X bust a style make you wanna smile. Well, smile I did and still am to the lyrical turmoil of the bad mothers and hard clubbers of the X posse - 13 years on and the albums are still fresh as ever. Just leave your guns, spliffs and suppression at the door and get your Reeboks on down to the best rapper that the planet Hackney ever produced ....

Overlord X, a.k.a. Benjamin Balogun, came out of a 16th storey flat in a Leyton tower block to bust up UK rap in 1988. Together with London's famous X Posse - featuring the likes of Supreme T and Midrange - and a host of weird and wonderful partners in rhyme like Sidekick and Lord V - two groundbreaking albums : "Weapon Is My Lyric" and "X Versus The World" were classic slices of urban hip hop. The style was like Silver Bullet meeting Public Enemy on the streets of London - slickly produced beats, rhymes and attitude.

12/03/06 -- updated all the broken links - sorry!
16/05/05 -- heroesofukhiphop.com are hosting three unreleased X tracks here
26/09/04 -- New MP3 : Misty D - "Out On A Limb" thanks DC!
03/01/04 -- Entire album uploaded!! X-Posse - "Project X"
28/02/03 -- 2 new MP3s : 14 Days in May (trauma mix) , Let There Be Rock (music of life)
19/06/02 -- New non-album MP3s : 14 Days In May, Radical Kickbag, Weapon Is My Lyric
14/04/02 -- MP3s of all the album tracks are available for download on the album pages
21/02/02 **Exclusive** Click here to read an interview with Overlord X, granted exclusively for the site !


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2004

Click here to read an interview with Joe Jusko, who did the artwork for "X Versus The World"

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