You can never quite tell who’s going to plucked from the UK’s exploding rap scene and offered an enviable deal with an of-the-moment label.
Today, UK rapper K.Koke is next up having just signed a joint venture deal with Roc Nation and RCA.
Hailing from Stonebridge, North West London, Koke met up with Roc Nation’s heavily anticipated North Carolina emcee J. Cole last Friday evening [pictured right] at the Birmingham leg of his Lightdreams & Nightmares tour with Drake.
On top of news of Koke’s recent deal, rumour has it a future collaboration between two might also be on the way…
In the meantime, check out Koke’s freestyle for Charlie Sloth’s Fire In The Booth show on BBC 1Xtra, May 2010:
You can also sample Koke’s style on “Voices” from his forthcoming mixtape Pure Koke Vol. 2 which is set to drop in February;
UPDATE: Confirmation from the man himself.
[...] next huge names. He has expanded the label with the UK’s K. Koke.According to UK website Soul Culture, respected rapper K. Koke and his Suspect Entertainment inked a joint venture deal with Roc [...]
[...] Soul Culture was the first to break the news and now North London rapper K.Koke has confirmed that he [...]
[...] is K Koke, a rapper from the Stonebridge neighborhood of London. According to Bristish music site Soul Culture the deal is a joint venture between Koke’s Suspect Entertainment and Jay’s Roc Nation and [...]
[...] Will Smith’s daughter, Willow Smith, and little-known foreign artists, Cher Lloyd. K. Koke confirmed his deal with Roc Nation label over the weekend. This dude in the beginning of the video is REAL [...]
[...] This is news from Soul Culture: [...]
[...] site SC reported that Hova signed UK rapper K. Koke to Roc Nation. Above is K. Koke with J. Cole in London [...]