Rural Roots

RuralRoots- Biography

KOMLANRAY - BENP - EMMANUEL ALLERT


RuralRoots are a group that aim to create music for right now. With Roots obviously based in Hip Hop culture and first hand experience of various aspects of what that has become and means in the UK, they create songs that take those components mixed with wordplay describing the world they experience day to day.

The wordplay and lyrics work to hit all the senses: Feeling, Sight, Sound, Taste and Touch and give you a listening experience beyond the two dimensional landscape that has become mainstream Hip Hop and urban music.

BenP and KomlanRay first worked together through mutual friends and have since gone on to create a catalogue of amazing new era Hip Hop tracks with the promise of many more to come…….

BenP - Beatmaker/ Lyricist

Ben P dedicates hours upon hours to beat production and lyric writing and creates the music that has become the signature sound of RuralRoots. He writes about all areas of his world and has worked with numerous other artists in order to craft the beats and hooks that can be heard on many of RuralRoots tracks, alongside this he is often credited as the business brain of RuralRoots and has an ear for the appeal of a beat, lyric or melody. He ranges from sampled arrangement to live instruments and singers to create sounds that are both deeply musical and raw as the scene they represent. BenP is focused on his vision of RuralRoots and has a passion for success rarely seen in today’s world of talent less stardom and instant gratification.


KomlanRay - Lyricist

KomlanRay can’t remember the first time he wrote lyrics or performed a verse to friends. He first began performing live as a way of accompanying his good friend UK Cage fighter Ian ‘M16’ Butlin to fights up and down the UK with no plan to develop what he took for granted. These performances were high energy tracks but always contained the lyrical make-up and wordplay that has become trade mark on his RuralRoots verses. On creating RuralRoots along with BenP this original rawness has been developed to what you can now hear. His lyrics range from deep insightful melancholy to superficial flippancy often in the same track or even in a single line.

Emmanuel (Manny) - Musician, Beatmaker, Bass, Guitar…..the list goes on!

RuralRoots first worked with Manny on the technical side of things years back and BenP and KomlanRay were instantly blown away by the all round musical and sound production know how that he hit them with… years of wanting him to join followed…Having worked with a wide range of artists he has brought together a range of styles and instruments that fitted ideally the identity of RuralRoots. He brings the live music aspect RuralRoots were searching for and is credited working alongside BenP for much of the more recent styles heard on Rural Roots tracks.

RuralRoots would also like to credit the immense talents of Angel Wade and Thabo.