The first album from Alice Springs born MC, McDee brings crazy wordplay and brutally honest lyrics over Dan the Underdog's slick production, an Aussie Hip Hop album like no other.

19 MP3 Songs
HIP-HOP/RAP: Hip Hop, HIP-HOP/RAP: Rap



Details:
ASHLEY McDONELL / McDee

d.o.b: 11 March 1986
mobile: 0432 520 781
email: mcdee_no5@hotmail.com
current residency: Alice Springs, NT

LIVE SHOWS

June 2007 - supported Brother Ali with fellow MC Kaydence
St. Paul's - Adelaide

Feb 2007 â B4 THA BEGINNING - cd launch
Todd Tavern â Alice Springs

Dec 2006 â Supported âTerra Firmaâ with fellow MC Kaydence
Electric Light Hotel â Adelaide

April 2006 â Supported âTASKâ (best new up and coming talent at the NT Indigenous Music Awards 2006) for OUT OF THE DARKNESS - cd launch
Music NT Hall - Darwin

April 2005 â Performed with MC Monk and James Bassman from âCulture Connectâ
Araluen Arts Centre â Alice Springs

Sep 2005 â Performed at Bass in the Dust. Supported bands such as The Living End, Frenzal Rhomb, Dallas Crane & DJ Lenno
Alice Springs

WORKSHOPS

Oct 2006 â Conducted a Hip Hop workshop for primary school children from Papunya Community and Braitling School
Alice Springs

For the past two years during the school holidays myself and fellow MC / producer Dan The Underdog have conducted Hip Hop workshops out on several bush communities.
The communities surrounding Alice Springs include - Papunya, Ikuntyi, Kintore, Mt Liebig, Town Bore and MâBangarah.
The youth holiday program has proven to be a huge success and continues to be funded by Northern Territory government.

CURRENT CD

B4 THA BEGINNING â is a mixture of raw Hip Hop and Soul. A handful of local artists feature on the album â Dan The Underdog, Mackie, TASK, Panda B, Casper, Big B, Kaydence, Moni (my daughter makes a cameo appearance on the cdâs interlude) and Mel.


My never ending journey began as a writer at 17 years of age where I realized my passion for Hip Hop . I found this type of music was and always will be a magical way of expressing myself through rhyme.

WHY?...
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Because it challenges my inner strength, enhances my every day life and nurtures my soul. The essence in each script that I write will resonate within you because the truth is only spoken. Disillusion ainât Realityâ¦..and the fact is music be a way of life so why live in fantasy? I certainly donât, as my music portrays the Good with the Bad and the Happy with the Sad, Balance is Vitalâ¦.
McDee