After a brief hiatus and a name change (FKA Picasso), Mr Ekow is back with his 2nd project, the 6-track EP - Ekow Chamber. Take a step into his colourful mind - a place of both wild imagination and everyday realities, and listen in as he effortlessly flows over electronic infused hip hop beats provided by ChromadaData, Dobsy, Prospect and Mr Ekow himself. This existential journey is a great introduction to Mr Ekow and the common humanity we all share.
FREE DOWNLOAD HERE: http://mrchrisekow.bandcamp.com/album/ekow-chamber

With Nothing Left Ft. Chris Miller [prod by Dobsy]

When Space Stares Back

Mr Ekow teams up with some of London’s finest talent to bring a feel-good song for the summer. Featuring production by Ian Green, vocals by Lateefah and trumpet by Sheila Maruice-Grey, ‘Liberate’ boasts Ekow’s trademark witty lyricism over an infectious beat.

Artwork by Nathan Garwood

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Liberate

Liberate ft. Lateefah (prod. Ian Green)

Beat by https://soundcloud.com/nathanprospect

Mr Ekow is back with his 4th EP - Between Haircuts. In a world obsessed with finding the perfect angle for a selfie, Between Haircuts pushes aside the facades and explores the nitty gritty in between. The EP paints an honest, personal picture of trying to maintain faith in a broken world and looking for light in the darkness.

Between Haircuts

On Top [prod. Prospect]

Mr Ekow is back with his 4th EP - Between Haircuts. In a world obsessed with finding the perfect angle for a selfie, Between Haircuts pushes aside the facades and explores the nitty gritty in between. The EP paints an honest, personal picture of trying to maintain faith in a broken world and looking for light in the darkness.

You Bring Me the Light ft. Titi The Writer & Ebonie G

Beat by https://soundcloud.com/taikomusic

Lyrics:
Walk through the people, walk through the town/ what's all around, what's all around?

I see... arrows flying at their targets/ children left unguarded/ discarded gardens and hardened hearts sold for bargains/ fallen spartans, darkened by their own ardent cries/ sharpened grins when the market wins by an unpardoned a lie/ arson by the smartest guy who blames the martian while/ he holds a match and a hose and just for show he sprays the passer by/ starlit eyes arching high but marching right by/ the terror in their home, left to roam without asking/ I...

taste bitterness, sprinkled with dreams soured/ but powdered with sweet nothings and bluffings to empower/ cowards steaking claim to palates so plain/ doubters hating spray on tongue of acid rain/ strange plates of the raw, burnt and braised/ exchanged in one feed with seeds that take reign/ ingrained in each brain, a hunger for the fame/ a strain to be savoured, wonder how its made/ I...

smell fear, it appears to be rising/ lighting the atmosphere with fire that's igniting/ the smoke we inhale, the hell that's baptising/ people once well, now jailed or in hiding/ sweet aromas covert with their binding/ sliding in between the stench of those dying/ guiding the undead led to their striking/ match the old fumes, perfume the recycling/ I...

feel the world quaking, hearts aching, souls shaking, hope breaking/ ready to leave or to be forced taken/ coarse scraping of the humanity left/ deft shaping of insanity on the passively pressed/ blessed and the privileged, living within a mesh/ obsessed to have witnesses witness what they posses/ an itch unscratachable, mind: weak and malleable/ hunger pangs unnatural, braille for the unfathomable/ I...

hear snickering, slithering through the apathy/ casualties cant handle an optimistic said alchemy/ blasphemies from the gallantly praised for all calamity/ valiantly screaming vanity, preaching from their own rhapsody/ manically made screams/ agony from the seams/ elaborately placed laughs to mask what's underneath/ quiver between the teeth/ a whisper the ear needs/ belief in those words that lead to a deceit/ I...

Walk through the people, walk through the town/ what's all around, what's all around?

You see their faces but don't feel their pain/ won't hear their struggle, the bitter strain/ You see when life don't feel so sweet, you're wondering how you're gonna beat/ another day, another day

I wanna change it all, rearrange it all/ face it all for what is, make a shift to hear justice call/ but i feel just as small as the smallest ant that crawls/ or the rain drop that falls in the world's ocean pool/ and who am I to fool? I'm falling on my own face/ not in a prayer state, but falling far from his grace/ yeah I cant taste the waste, resident within this space/ it breaks out and leaks out in every single breathe I take/ cos I've been all these things: bitter, tired, broken/ choking on my pride and lusting for unspoken/ idols that have me idle, frozen within the moment/ unfocused on all the potent, trojans that rip open/ the whole world around me, inside me left defenseless/ till the whole world around me says it's the consensus/that this is just the norm, but that just sounds senseless/ if this is all we know, it's time for us to sense less/

I... believe in the sense to know and make changes/not be debators from places that we feel the safest/ I believe a threat to freedom anywhere is a threat everywhere/ a placid stare is the same as a deathly glare/ I believe the universe curves towards justice/ the moral arc of our hearts reflects this compass/ I 
 believe in something bigger than all of these things/ in him i know there's change, so that's where I'll begin.

Senseless ft. Myles The Rhetorical [prod. Taiko]

Drive Away ft. Ruth-Ellen [prod. Prospect]

Broken Images [prod. Prospect]

Beat by https://soundcloud.com/theunsung93

Mr Ekow is back with his 4th EP - Between Haircuts. In a world obsessed with finding the perfect angle for a selfie, Between Haircuts pushes aside the facades and explores the nitty gritty in between. The EP paints an honest, personal picture of trying to maintain faith in a broken world and looking for light in the darkness.

If A Tree Falls [prod. TheUnsung]

Mr Ekow and https://soundcloud.com/nathanprospect team up to give you their annual Christmas gift!

Da Art of Christmas Storytellin 3

Da Art of Christmas Storytellin' 3

Mr Ekow delivers a new soulful cut, pondering love in the 21st century: Heart of the Matter. If 500 days of summer was a hip hop song, this is what it would sound like. Ekow shares an alternative valentines day message, in which arrows from “flying babes” aren’t to be relied on. Instead he gets real about his own struggle to find love, while attempting to redefine it.

Heart of the Matter

Heart of the Matter (ft. Myles the Rhetorical)

Select your character

prod. by https://soundcloud.com/deppbeat

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Characters

Characters (prod. Depp)

Prod. https://soundcloud.com/eidangotsngs

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/album/5WLJb5wahY6J9kglXDIpg3?si=MBHJe04KTbafIACFdgXBiA

All streaming links: smarturl.it/ekowjunglegym

Jungle Gym

Jungle Gym (prod. Eidan)

No Man’s Land is the latest single from London rapper Mr Ekow and is his most honest and vulnerable to date. This is his coming out story. Taking the audience by the hand, Ekow painstakingly paints his every thought and emotion over stripped back melancholy production. The journey is one in which we hear him struggle to reconcile his faith and sexuality and in turn battle with depression and suicidal thoughts. The song features production from Nathan Prospect with electric guitar played by Jacob Hilton.

No Man's Land

Available on other streaming services: http://smarturl.it/goneupstream

A tale of two songs. Everyone’s either too scared to leave the boat or chasing the next wave. I’m more interested in finding my own path. I’d love to tell you I always feel crazy confident, but there are times when I doubt myself.

Gone / Upstream

Can't Relate is the 2nd single release from Mr Ekow this year. Produced by Welsh producer Mykal Max, it showcases a modern soulful boom bap sound that's sure to get heads both nodding and thinking. In a world where intersecting identities seem to clash more than ever, Can’t Relate is a reminder to take time to hear and see each other’s humanity, instead of our differences.

Can't Relate

Video: https://youtu.be/5iaCBE0acBE

Prod: Ian Copeland Green

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