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INTRODUCING: iP – Hit The Road Jack

• 24th Jan 2013

Scouse rap is usually a pretty hit and miss affair – for every genuine talent there are a dozen swagger fuelled “kidders” with a soggy spliff end handing out of the corner of their mouths and rhymes chock full of three stripe references.

We were pleasantly surprised then when this track from Sean iP Hegerty slipped onto our Twitter timeline. Featuring a sample of the Ray Charles classic Hit The Road Jack and some amusing and intelligent wordplay contained in some lightning flow, this is far from average fare.

“A quick freestyle on youtube called ‘Dreams’ was noticed and posted by Mac Miller and now I’m focusing on my mix tape, so it’s been a pretty good start” says Hegerty “I work full time, 45 hours a week in a plumbing store and live in a place called Bootle in Liverpool with my mum dad and sister. My music taste is very out of the ordinary for rappers, I listen to Frank Sinatra, Amy Winehouse, Bob Marley, Natty and Sigur Ros.“

Here’s hoping that plumbing job doesn’t last much longer and iP can get his mixtape to the audience it deserves.