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Huddersfield based hip hop producer and MC Spida Lee releases
‘Verbal Assassin’, a hard hitting Northern hip hop track, with a strong UK emphasis, on the Rubicon imrpint this week. Keen to build his local support base before launching onto the rest of the UK, Spida recently completed a three month tour around west Yorkshire schools.

What’s your name and when and where were you born?
“Lee Roberts and oh I can't tell you that - but I’m from Huddersfield and proud!.”

Can you describe your sound?
“Old skool flava with a yorkshire twang.”

When and how did you get into making music?
“I can't remember a time when I wasn't involved in making music. I've never known anything else.”

What was your first ever gig?
The first time I ever performed.I was eight years old it was called Hip-opera, we performed at the Huddersfield Town Hall,Leeds Carnival and Bradford St Georges.

And your best ever gig?
“Town and Country in Bradford,it was a fantastic stage,lighting and Skinnyman was on the billing,since then he's asked me to support him on his next tour and it all started from meeting him there.”

And your worst one?
“I was asked to play at a club and can't even remember it's name it was that bad,I was told it would be my kind of audience,it turned out they were all aging beatnick hippy types all sat around on the floor and no disrespect to them, but I just couldn't appear so I politely left.”

Who have been the biggest influences on you?
“Beat Butcher first and foremost - he was the first really respected producer who took my work seriously and Skinnyman as an artist, ever since his 'Council estate of Minds' came out,more so since I've got to know him better,he's been really supportive.”

What’s your favourite label?
“Rubiconbeat (I would say that it's what I'm signed to!!!!). The guy who formed it did so with his own money and has not only got me on the label,but stuff like Soul R&B, Breakbeat and is alway's looking for new artists. It's so supportive. As artists we are allowed to to what we want musically, he trusts us totally. Hopefully we can repay that trust back, it really is like another Family. Apart from this, LowLife has been so inspirational to so many artists and Hip Hop heads in general. They really started a movement and proved with a lot of determination and hard work you can succeed.”