Si Phili has accomplished a great deal over the last 11 years and is destined to even more greater things. It all started in 96/97 when he and other members Life MC and DJ Nappa formed the Hip Hop group Phi-Life Cypher. Representing Luton they together entered the Tim Westwood's Talent 2000 competion and were successfully one of the final three acts. Since then Phi-Life Cypher have performed and recorded with numerous artists such as "Public Enemy, KRS1, Big Daddy Kane, Flava Flav, The Pharcyde, Afu Ra, among others, and [have] also appeared with "PLC" (phi-life cypher)on the "Brits" in 2001 with the Gorillaz performing the originally PLC recorded version of "Clint Eastwood" released in 2000 (check Gorillaz G-Sides)."
Si Phili also enthuses that they have toured throughout Europe in countries such as Russia, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain and the UK where they have established a great reputation in "underground hip hop clubs, performing at various high profile Hip Hop events and festivals such as Hip Hop Kemp (CZ Republic), Peace not war(London), Brighton Hip Hop festival, Depurcssion(Manchester)."
Si Phili was inspired by hearing others "rhyming and making tracks" and knew immediately that he could do the same. Since coming from a breakdancing and grafitti background, it seemed only natural for him to put his own ideas into practice. Together with Life MC, he rhymed, freestyled and ultimately found his own style. Si Phili tells us that whilst they were "freestyling to beats...the people that were there said I sounded good. I liked the sound of that so carried on from there."
Whilst pursuing a solo career, Si Phili entered and won the Hugo Urban Rules Award early 2007. "I was just about to start my solo career and was looking for an outlet to get the new music out there to the masses." Si Phili's first single from his debut album will be released Summer 2008. He describes his music as "soulful melodic beats with intricate frenetic rhyming" and "more commercially accessible" compared to his previous work. There are many artists that Si Phili aspires to working with in the future, ranging from US artists such as "Kanye, Common, Lupe Fiasco, Wu Tang Clan [and] The Roots" to UK artists such as "Amy Winehouse, Marc Ronson and the Arctic Monkeys," plus many more.
Si Phili has a number of exciting projects that he is working on. At present, Si Phili is working on his solo album, which will be realeased Autumn 2008 and will also be releasing another Phi-Life Cypher LP and a mixtape. Towards the end of 2008 and beginning of 2009, Si Phili will be bringing out a project called Ambiguity, which is something we are all greatly looking forward to. We will let you know more about this project when we have more information. Si Phili tells us: "I’m featuring on a few other artists’ tracks also such as Andrea Magee, Kye Sones, and a few others, but any artists who want to collab jus holla at my myspace and we can work it out."
So if any of you are interested in working with Si Phili, as well as artists he is also looking for "HOT mc's and vocalists for my album and other projects."
Si Phili's advice for all of you up-and-coming artists is "stay on that hustle, nothing good comes easy and this game definitely aint easy." For more information on Si Phili, Phi-Life Cypher or if you are interested in working with Si Phili, check out:
www.myspace.com/siphili
www.myspace.com/plcphilifecypher
www.myspace.com/ambiguity06
www.myspace.com.richyspitz
"soon to come will be www.siphili.com so stay tuned for that website that’s under construction right now."
BY ALEXANDRA HUDSON
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