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Track: Flying to Mars
Artist: Foreign Beggars
Album: The Uprising

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Name: Foreign Beggars
Spotify Genres: dubstep, dub
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Averaging well over 100 shows per year, ‘Foreign Beggars’ are one of the most prolific and versatile Hip Hop outfits to emerge from the UK. Consisting of MC’s Metropolis and Orifice Vulgatron, Producer Dag Nabbit, Human Beat boxer Shlomo and DJ Nonames. With roots ranging from jazz and classical training, to years of writing recording and performing hip hop, death/power-metal and drum & bass the group’s varied experiences combine to create one of the most explosive live rap showcases on the planet. Individually, ‘Foreign Beggars’ have achieved a range high profile accomplishments from appearance s on Bjork’s ‘Medulla’ album and the Gorillaz single ‘Tomorrow Never Comes’, to remix production for Amp Fiddler and Corinne Bailey Rae, and touring the States with James Lavelle’s UNKLE outfit. Whilst also having collaborated with a slew of hip hop heavy weights including Stones Throw’s OhNo, Guilty Simpson, Wildchild and Dudley Perkins, producer supreme DJ Vadim, Dabrye, Scratch Perverts, Skinnyman, Task Force and Spain’s Griffi and Tote King they have worked from a host of other genres including Vex’d, Virus Sundicate, Natalie Williams, Noisia and Ram Record’s Subfocus. Shlomo has also created the worlds first Vocal Orchestra, and was made an “Artist in Residence” at the South Bank Centre at the young age of 22, Curator of the 2007 world beatbox convention in London and judges at the UK Beatbox championships and has performed with the likes of Bjork, Dizzee Rascal, The Specials & Damon Albarn. Championed on national radio by Zane Lowe, Pete Tong and Tim Westwood, Nonames and Orifice are now into their second year presenting a weekly hip hop and grime show on the BBC Asian Network. Television features include Channel 4, ITV and MTV, Shlomo Live on Jools Holland and Eastenders, and a live broadcast on the BBC from Glastonbury. Whilst running one of the most respected Hip Hop record labels in the UK “Dented Records”, and organizing events throughout the country, they haveperformed on stage and opened for Snoop Dogg, Amy Winehouse, Public Enemy, Pharoahe Monch, Iain Brown, Femi Kuti, Mark Ronson, Talib Kweli, Roni Size, Asian Dub Foundation, Pendulum, K’Naan, Wu Tang Clan, Kano, Masta Ace, Herbalizer, East 17! Roots Manuva, and many more. Sadly Metropolis passed in April 2020.

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Release: Foreign Beggars Ft. Donae'o - Flying To Mars
Year: 2012
Genres: Electronic, Hip Hop
Styles: Dubstep, Hip Hop

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LYRICS

Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
Thoughts are distorted, my mind is really spinning
I feel like I'm in space, should I abort this?
But like Charlie Sheen I feel I'm winning
Don't want to stay in space
And I'm flying to Mars, (Woah, woah, woah.)
I'm flying to Mars, (Yeah, yeah, yeah.)
Should stay behind, but I'm rocking my spacesuit
And I'm flying to mars. (Woah, woah, woah.)
Dada dee, dada day
Yeah, coke tanked up to my grill
Run up in the jam so slick
Came straight out of the field
Head to the bar like "Yo"
'Cos he hooked me up on to them tings
Bang, two shots to the head
Then I drop a half G in the drink
(Dada dee, dada day.)
Look who's back in the zone
Out here we're trying to catch those thrills
Hoes set put three to the dole
You can find me by the speaker
More time I'll be by the mic
Beggar fam transmit to the either
Can we get deep in the cut or less?
We about to get loose
I'm all in my head gone like, (Woah!)
I'mma draw two more sips of the goose
So who's in the two puff pass?
Two blasts to the chest no drool
'Cos a brother's on a move heading out of space
I've been licking that rocket fuel
(Dada dee, dada day.)
Yeah and that's just the way we roam
Blazing them big fat cones
Somehow, someway we make it back home
We're raving our ways past all
No time to waste when man's in that zone
'Cos when you see me in the dance
I'm gonna drop that shit to get your head blown
I can barely move
But I can see the moon
I can see the stars behind the moon
I can see the moon
I can barely move
But I can see the moon
I can see the stars behind the moon
I can see the moon
Oh yeah