Durrty Goodz

Durrty Goodz
Birth name Dwayne Mahorn
Born (1981-05-11) 11 May 1981
Chingford, England
Origin Chingford, England
Genres Grime, hip hop, trap R and B Drum and Bass Jungle Dancehall Reggae
Occupation(s) Rapper
Years active 2001–present
Labels Polydor Records, Universal Records, Awkward Music Tru Thoughts
Associated acts Crazy Titch, Boyz in da Hood, Skibadee Akala Riko Dan

Durrty Goodz (born Dwayne Mahorn, 11 May 1981), previously known as Durrty Doogz, is an English grime MC from London. He is known for his versatility across his tracks with a flow that fuses many styles, from dancehall to reggae to hip-hop and bashment, evoking artists as disparate as Ludacris, Kardinal Offishall and Pharoache Monch.[1] He is known for his lyricism, flow and wit on the mic.

Biography

He was featured on the Skibadee mixtape "2 Fast 2 Ferocious " in 2003 which was his the first mixtape he was on but a year prior a bootleg mixtape had circulated online entitled "It's Real, Vol. 1. He was also featured on many sets on radio stations.

Mahorn was signed to Polydor Records in 2005, but left due to a lack of creative control.

He was named Best MC by the London pirate radio station Kool FM,[2] which led to recognition in the London underground music scene, and was signed to Universal Records soon after. Mahorn made appearances on local radio programmes, mixtapes, and 12-inch singles as well.[3] He has been featured in Logan Sama's radio segment on Kiss 100 London in 2011.[3]

Mahorn's brother Crazy Titch was accused and later convicted of murdering 21-year-old Richard Holmes, and was sentenced to 30 years without parole. Mahorn spent nearly a year on remand in prison in relation to the same incident until November 2006 when he was acquitted. Durrty Goodz recorded a track called "Letter 2 Titch" about the incident.

Durrty Goodz returned to his career in 2007, releasing the Axiom EP. This was followed by the Durrty Whirl mixtape in 2008, a re-release of the 2004 release, available for free download on the official Durrty Goodz website. In 2008, He was featured on Devlin's Mixtape "Art of Rolling" on the track "Soundbwoy Murder".

In 2009, Durrty Goodz released Ultrasound, a Pre-Album in the build-up to the debut album. This was followed by a free album entitled Born Blessed released in 2010. Durrty Goodz then began work on his debut album, entitled Overall which was released in May 2011.

In 2010, he released a visual of "Gunshot" and "Childhood" from his Born Blessed mixtape. He released " Marijuana" in the same year. He featured on a Jailtales on the BBC in the same year.

In 2011, Durrty Goodz featured on an all-star grime single titled "Pull Up 2011" alongside producer Dexplicit and other artists such as Big H, Big Narstie, Dot Rotten, Black the Ripper & Shizzle. In October 2011, Durrty Goodz announced that his second album entitled Foundation would be released soon. He also appeared on Fire in the Booth with Charlie Sloth twice that year and did a Fast and Furious freestyle. He also did a freestyle for BBC Radio 1xtra. He released a visuals of " Oi Wot You Lookin At" and "Don't Ask Me".

On 11 March 2013 Goodz released the free mixtape Young Legend followed by the sequel Young Legend 2 which was released on 31 March 2014 as a free download. He also was featured in 2013 on M.S.G's Mixtape releasing "Never Give Up" and that year including " Krispy Kreme" with Logic, Last Resort, Sway, Mighty Moe and Big Frizzle and "It's Alright" with DJ Ironik and AYO Beatz. He also released "City Rock" with Killa Mosquito under the name "DG Da Guru". He was invited to host "Lyric Lab" with SBTV and had talks with Popular MC's Like Skibadee and Scruffizer and himself. On Christmas Day 2014 he released the mixtape Vintage 3000 for free and released visuals for the song on the EP. In December 2015, He was featured on LinkupSeason with Chip, Swiss, Black the Ripper, Flowdan and Rocks Foe. He also released "Vision" with L Dot Man later in 2016. He announced that he will be releasing a new EP called, "Not To Televised" which is produced solely by YNR Productions Rapper/Producer Micall Parknsun on the 8th of July 2016. He released the first two tracks from his EPs called BMP and Organise on the 24th of June 2016. Tru Thoughts have announced that he will drop "Hungry Belly" which is a selection of Grime standout tracks. This will drop on the 19th of August 2016 and has already received early radio support from Tom Ravenscroft of BBC6Music.

Dispute with Wiley

The beef all when the spectacularly accomplished Battle Hype is actually four different rap battles where Goodz plays all the parts (including himself) by conjuring spot-on impersonations of Wiley and company. This hasn’t stopped Wiley making an instant answer record, despite Mahorn's protests that it's a comic tribute. This might be more convincing if the tune wasn’t packed full of personal details about his rivals’ lives. started when Wiley's "Where's My Brother?" song came out. It was a subliminal shot at Goodz and his brother Crazy Titch, over what happened when they went to jail for shooting a producer over a diss track. Goodz got released after a retrial but Titch is still doing a life sentence of 30 years. In the song Wiley claims Goodz is a snitch and Titch is doing the time for his brothers business. After Goodz came out, Wiley put out two more disses called "Wreath" and "Angry Garden Gnome Freestyle" which instigated the entire beef.

"Cokey The Snowman" was Goodz' reply to Wiley.

The beef continued with songs like Wiley's "End Of The World Freestyle", Goodz' "Panty Bras Coke & Cameras" and Wiley's "Conspiracy". They also had a clash in 2002 which is a four-part audio clash on YouTube. It is generally accepted that Durrty Goodz won this beef.

Discography

Albums
EPs
Mixtapes

References

  1. ↑ Hancox, Dan. "Durrty Goodz". FACT Magazine.
  2. ↑ Thomas, Vincent (2008). "Durrty Goodz". Allmusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
  3. 1 2 Clark, Martin (2007-03-21). "This Month In: Grime / Dubstep". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
  4. ↑ Overall (2011) on ITunes Store, Retrieved 2015-06-06.
  5. ↑ Axiom EP (2007) on ITunes Store, Retrieved 2015-06-06.
  6. ↑ Ultrasound (2009) on ITunes Store, Retrieved 2015-06-06.


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