New double video from Folkestone’s finest Chie & King Bracket – ‘In The Box’ & ’27th’ are lifted from last years excellent Steezy Wonderz.
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Loving this one from the Folkestone fam. It’s a bit nuts that this is the first ever video from Kiss, as she’s been about for more than a minute. ‘Self Sabotage’ makes it worth the wait though. The King Bracket produced beat is hard and hip hop’s first lady of Kent is verbally at her best, as are the local mob she’s brought along. Verses from Chie, In’ovative and Skwid all bang. Messy poker video is also a vibe. Full marks.
‘Sunny Sands’ – lifted from Chie & King Brackets’ LP Steezy Wonderz which is out now and available at brainscran.com.
People living in lockdown broadly fall into one of two groups. Either you’re a normal person, who lost six months to Netflix, wake’n’bakes and midweek drinking, or you’re a psychopath who spent their entire lockdown working out, reading and bettering themselves as a person.
But, it turns out there is a third group – a minority who managed to indulge in every indulgence possible while crafting unholy classics as if they were rolling a J. Chie and King Bracket would fall into this third group.
After tearing up the festival circuit as half of Backward Sun all the way back in 2019, the Kent-based duo spent a year polishing their debut LP. But with Steezy Wonderz, the boys aren’t trying to reinvent the wheel. Instead, they’re offering a lawless journey to the dankest corners of hip hop.
Chie’s gravel-throat drawl rolls around beats like a drugged-out labrador, but his delivery is sharper than a paper cut to the eardrums. Even as he spits about breakfast bongs and late-night writing, Chie makes a point of giving you the unfiltered truth. On ‘A Wagwhan PhD’ he sneers, “Play the drug game // wake up a fuckface // Waste of my wage // Licking flavour from packet.”
Debut single ‘Flavoured Recipe’ captures the mood of the album perfectly; an Illinformed-inspired blend of gloopy horn loops, smooth bassline and bars so sweet they’ll rot your teeth. And while the bars are a big part of Steezy Wonderz, it’s King Bracket’s beat skills that tie the album together.
Previous productions have explored everything from trap to folk to DnB. It’s that depth of experience that allows the duo to take you from dinner drinks at upmarket jazz bars to gurning your way around a 2 am nightclub to smelling keys in a house party kitchen at 5 am in the space of two tracks.
But Steezy Wonderz isn’t here to glamourise anything. It’s unsparingly honest about the struggle of following your own path. Even the most hedonistic scenarios come with a healthy dose of reality. It’s just that the southeast boys wouldn’t want it any other way.
They might make it look effortless, but Steezy Wonderz is really just the product of choosing to work smart instead of working hard. So kick back, spark a zoot and embrace your inner steeze.
Steezy Wonderz drops September 4th on Brain Scran Records. Get it on pre-release here.
We just dropped the visual for Chie & King Bracket‘s second single ‘Erry Day Mk3’ on the channel yesterday. Weirdly this monster of a tune was written before the Corona apocalypse had reared its ugly mug, so the ‘Repeat the task with the mask face/Play your part mate/We’re living in this dark age’ hook has taken on a whole new meaning.
Lifted from Chie and Bracket’s upcoming 14 track debut LP Steezy Wonderz. Available for pre-order on Vinyl, Digital and Green Cassette through Brain Scran Records HERE.
We shot this with Chie and King Bracket a year back at Nozstock festival after they shelled down the Bullpen stage as part of Backward Sun. We’ve sat on it for ages and its finally seeing the light of day in the absence of festival season as the first single from the debut Chie X Bracket LP. Dropping soon on Vinyl, CD and Cassette through Brain Scran Records.
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Pickle Rich – ‘My Way’ ft. Chie (Prod. King Bracket). Mixed and Mastered by King Bracket.
Brain Scran cypher with Chie, PROSPECTS and special guest Verbz. Produced by Harvs Le Toad.
Look out for PROSPECTS debut EP dropping in February, and check out Mysteronz (Chie 7th Sense & King Bracket) – Parental Guidance. Out now!
Brain Scran Record’s debut EP release Parental Guidance for first signing Mysteronz has arrived today! In preparation for this occasion we took to the streets of the seaside town of Folkestone to run a political campaign aiming to get Mysteronz party candidate and DJ/Producer King Bracket elected as the MP for Folkestone and Hythe. Polls suggest that regardless of whether Mysteronz are aliens masquerading as a hip hop crew or a hip hop crew masquerading as aliens, nobody is willing to vote for them to represent the constituency in parliament. Which is probably a good thing as they definitely couldn’t be fucked. It wasn’t a complete waste of time though as the video for second single ‘2 Martas’ turned out sick.
Parental Guidance features UK Boom Bap ambassadors Chie, 7th Sense and King Bracket repping impressively across 7 lazily funky bangers. Listen and cop it here.
First single ‘Seaside Scum’ from the Mysteronz EP Parental Guidance. Out now on Brain Scran Records.