Rodney P

In 1986, London Posse were invited by Mick Jones of The Clash to support his new band Big Audio Dynamite on a UK tour. A recording contract with Big Life Records followed, and the recording of the songs "Live Like The Other Half" and "Money Mad", which appeared on the group's only album, Gangsta Chronicle. Gangsta Chronicle was voted the most important UK hip-hop album of all time in the 2007 poll of music magazine Hip Hop Connection.

After London Posse came to an end, Rodney P launched his own label, Riddim Killa, a collaboration with Low Life Records, on which he released a series of singles including "Big Tings" and the "Riddim Killa". In 2003 he released solo album The Future and in 2007 he released Klashnekoff's debut album.

Rodney P signed to Tru Thoughts Records in 2011.[4] A collaborative album with Zed Bias and Falacy was released in 2012 under the name Sleepin Giantz.[5]

Rodney P has also collaborated with Skinnyman, Blak Twang, Roots Manuva and The Nextmen, and featured on recordings by Omar, Terri Walker,The Brand New Heavies, MJ Cole, Roni Size, The Stanton Warriors, Timo Maas and L’Entourloop.

Shortly after setting up Riddim Killa Records In 2002, Rodney P, along with friend and collaborator DJ Skitz, was invited by the BBC to host “The Original Fever” a groundbreaking Urban music show on the then newly formed digital station BBC Radio 1Xtra. He was introduced to DJ Skitz by a mutual friend 'Destiny 'who worked at the legendary Deal Real record shop in the West End of London, and appears on Skitz's albums Countryman and Homegrown volume 1. Their show "The Original Fever" ran for over 6 years and saw Rodney & Skitz interviewing some of the biggest names in music including Pharrell Williams, P Diddy, 50 Cent and Kanye West. This development in his career and a love of the medium led to even more involvement in radio documentaries. He has since gone on to present topical documentaries including the Sony Award-nominated "F.E.D.S", “Concrete Heat” and the Lamacq Live documentary: "The Beautiful Struggle", which saw him returning to war-torn Sierra Leone, after first visiting in 1993 as part of London Posse, to report on the burgeoning indigenous Hip Hop culture.

Highly regarded as a spokesperson for the UK music scene Rodney P is often asked to contribute to televised discussions, sharing his knowledge and opinion on many topics; this has led to numerous appearances on television shows like "Trevor Nelsons" The Low Down, Don Letts's 2007 3 part soul music anthology Soul Britannia and The Mercury Prize Award Ceremony. He has also appeared in many TV documentaries including “How Hip Hop Changed the World” hosted by Idris Elba and “Life of Rhyme” hosted by Akala both produced by Acme Films. Rodney received a great deal of exposure on Channel 4's Dub Plate Drama featuring alongside UK artists Shystie, Ms Dynamite, N Dubs and Big Nasty in the world's first viewer-led interactive television drama. This inner city Soup Opera sees Rodney P summarizing the events of each series and enticing public opinion and decision.

In 2011, he provided the voice of the animated rapper in a television advert for the Toyota Yaris.[6]

In 2016 Rodney presented "The Hip Hop World News" a 90-minute authored film by Acme Films for BBC Four in which Rodney set out to show what the World looks like through the lens of Hip Hop interviewing Hip Hop icons like Russell Simmons, Rakim and "Chuck D" of Public Enemy.

In 2017 Rodney followed up The Hip Hop World News with the Award-nominated "The Last Pirates - Britains Rebel DJ’s" also for BBC Four.

"Presented by Rodney P, this film presents an alternative history of Britain in the 1980s - with archive and music that celebrates a very different side of Thatcher's Britain.”

In 2020 Rodney P presented "Rodney P's Jazz Funk" on BBC Four, a one-hour exploration of the jazz-funk movement, one of the first black British music cultures.[7]

Rodney has toured with The Dub Pistols and DJ Skitz. Rodney has also performed at festivals across the UK including, Bestival, The Secret Garden and Glastonbury.He has also hosted the MF Prince's Trust Concert with Jay-Z and Alicia Keys and the United Nations-sponsored UNHabitat Charity Concert alongside Jazzy Jeff, Dead Prez and Mos Def.

• Rodney P on Blogspot
• Discogs' Rodney P page
• UKHH
• DubPlate Drama