Some A.P. aka Rip van Smizzle old and new 
with Irie Eyes Racheese, Shaborn and Yuk-attack, and others for Sounds Peace.

I grew up in darkness so I understand the beauty of the light.  One with life, the elements, music, people, the universe.

Versatile producer and conscious rapper, always ready and waiting for the next stage, ready to perform. Message me for gigs, shows, projects, films, adverts, games and more.

Croydon based music Producer. Experimental, electronic beats with influence from music across the world.

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Franklin Freshman grew up with various musical sounds, from soul , to Indie music. He first heard Hiphop, at the age of 8 when he was playing monopoly with family. The Fugees, was playing in the background. ‘Ready or not was playing and I was amazed by the beats and lyrics ‘. For an 8 year child, hiphop was interesting but it was later on his life that he decided to starting ‘’rapping’’. 

It was when a certain white hip-hop artist, called Eminem appeared on MTV with his hit ‘ Way I Am ‘, that this young teenager wanted to rap. At first, he was writing raw angry lyrics like the ones Eminem rapped. Then he got into So Solid Crew, DJ Luck Mc Neat and various other garage legends.  After this he started emceeing to Garage. This was when he was 12 years old. It was a few years later, that he would record his first song. This was called ‘ I’m amazing ‘, after playing a video game he gave himself the rap alter ego of Mazin. He had the lucky opportunity to record this song through a government funded youth initiative. He kept his head down and got a Business qualification. During break times, he would battle rappers and rap in cyphers. At that period, a new music genre was getting popular in his district called Grime. Grime was a mixture of jungle, drum & bass, hiphop and garage. With 140 BPM, so he started emceeing to Grime and was forming crowds of supporters. 

He decided to cut a single, at a youth club. Innocent produced it for him for about $25. This would go onto become his first ‘’hit’’ . Under his new artist name Glitz, he recorded ‘ Glitz In Tha Bitz’ . As soon as it was recorded he burnt loads of copies and distributed it in his local area. The track was popular and many people had it as their ringtone. Being young and naïve he didn’t understand the music industry so he didn’t pursue a record deal with the single. 

. The friend wanted his help to run the event and also to find music acts to perform live. This gave him a zest for music again after being quiet for a while. So the friend said, he should start going to open mics and perform. This lead to nearly a year and half of attending the open mic circuit. He had made a friendship with a hiphop DJ, who he attended open mics with. After Glitz changed to Franklin Freshman, since he felt it was time to grow up from a childish tag name. They were runners up, in the July 2012 ‘ In it To Win it ‘ music contest and the hiphop dj, helped pushed him musically to what you see today. 

The projects Franklin Freshman has released, are A Slice of Cake, Candy and Sunshine and The Free Soundcloud EP. The most recent, is his debut album, Seeking The Knighthood. He has released two singles from this album, the first being ‘Love Lost’ which achieved almost 5000 views on Youtube and the second Garage single ‘ Happy Days’. 

Franklin Freshman, is back In the studio working on new material.
Franklin Freshman, is a young talent with much potential. He abuses the English language to the extent he is poetic and lyrical. With intentions of blending new school and old school sounds together, he feels that he will create music that generations will listen to for a long time. He has various influenced from Bob Marley, Kayne West, Kano to R.E.M and Blink 182.

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