EXCLUSIVE: Foreign Beggars Unite With Kate Tempest, Scott Garcia And Bionic For Breaks-Heavy Rap Epic “6 Million Stories”

Today, UK rap crew Foreign Beggars are releasing their new album 2 2 Karma, and it's beginning to look a bit impressive.

To give you an idea of the album's calibre, they're sharing "6 Million Stories", a collaborative effort with Kate Tempest, Scott Garcia and London Posse legend Bionic. It's a dramatic, breaks-heavy rap epic that combines the wildly differing styles into something you might not expect. An inspired collaboration, it bodes very well for the rest of the album.

Foreign Beggars explained a little more to TRENCH via email: "One of our proudest moments on the album, once we'd picked the production from Bangzy, this track kind of came together like a dream. Once we'd recorded it, we reached out to Bionic who has a been a friend for some years now and asked if he'd be interested. Hadn't even made the connection with the song being called 'Six Million Stories' and him being the Six Million Dollar Man. He just so happened to be coming back to London after something like a 20-year hiatus and this was his first collab/track he made after his return for the London Posse reunion tour.

"We also wanted to work on something with Kate Tempest, who we've known from way back in the Deal Real days when she was about 14. Just watching her grow and become such a force to be reckoned with is so inspiring. So to get to collaborate with her on this piece was an honour, but also conceptually fits perfectly. The final piece of the puzzle with Scott Garcia is a mad one as we were trying to chop up those 'London Thing' vox but it wasn't fitting as we didn't have an acapella. We eventually swapped contacts and hit him with the joint. He was into it and blessed us with the stems. It's almost like the universe was sending us on random missions for this time to make itself."


Posted on February 09, 2018