London-based emcee Ultra_Eko releases his track BRAIN AIN’T YOUR OWN, featuring Pontefract-born, Gdansk, Poland-based emcee/producer DaRealMrLee across all streaming platforms today!

London rapper Ultra_eko releases his track ‘Brain Ain’t Your Own‘ featuring DaRealMrLee, across all streaming platforms today!, as the third single from his upcoming album ‘Revelation’, out on June 25th.

Produced and engineered by Subsequel, the entire album took eight weeks to complete, with recording sessions at Pirate Studios in Earlsfield and his home during the lockdown. Ultra_eko has released an EP and three critically acclaimed albums, drawing the attention of VENTS Mag, HipHopSince1987, and Urbanista. Additionally, his works were selected for Repost Exchange’s best tracks of the Year podcasts for 2019 and 2020.

Aiming to release his finest body of work yet, Ultra_eko delivers ‘Brain Ain’t Your Own’, featuring DaRealMrLee, as a captivating mainstream contender, full of clever wordplay, and references to many of the great artists within the genre over the years. It is a contemporary critique of advertising, television, and pop culture, and its diminishing effects on originality of thought and content. In an early review of the forthcoming nineteen-track album, ‘Brain’ was described by Aussie blog Broken 8 Records, as blending,

“The explosive sounds of his early work with the creativity shown in his previous remix album, it’s easily our favourite track off the album”.

It is also a bold and striking introduction of Pontefract-born rapper and producer, DaRealMrLee, with whom Ultra_eko has plans to work with on a more substantial future project. Now based in Gdansk, Poland, Mr. Lee describes himself as a collector of facial expressions, which he believes help him to write tongue-twisting raps. He is particularly fond of Geese Blood Soup, a delicacy in rural North Poland. He claims to have travelled the world far and wide in search of such facial expressions, though feels he has not amassed enough to take his art to a level he is satisfied with, and so remains tormented by the possibility of what still might be,

Born and raised in a working-class family in West Croydon, Ultra_eko’s turbulent life has shaped him into a master storyteller and street poet with a sharp tongue and steady flow. From bootlegging beer in France to smuggling cigarettes in Luxembourg, through to helping at his father’s market stall and looking after his own two sons, the daily grind has pushed him between addictions and spiritual awakening, culminating in making music and writing prose as means of escape and inner transformation. Having studied creative writing and psychology, his rich narratives reflect the struggles of ordinary men and those opportunities to grow and change.

With musical influences as diverse as his own life, Ultra_eko finds inspiration in both Hip Hop heavyweights like Skepta and Eminem, as well as rock legends Blur and Pink Floyd. With the full-length ‘ Revelation’ due to come out later this year, follow his social for further updates on new music and events.

Ultra_eko ft. DaRealMrLee – Brain Ain’t Your Own via iTunes/Spotify

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