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Young Fathers is an alternative hip-hop artist from Edinburgh, Scotland formed in 2008. 19 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Hip-Hop · Edinburgh, Scotland · Best alternative hip-hop albums
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Cocoa Sugar
2018
Tape Two
EP · 2013
Tape One
EP · 2013
Only God Knows
Single · 2017
Get Up
EP · 2014
Soon Come Soon
Single · 2014
Rice
EP · 2023
Geronimo
Single · 2022
Tell Somebody
Single · 2022
I Saw
Single · 2022
In My View
Single · 2018
Toy
Single · 2018
Border Girl / Cocoa Sugar
Single · 2018
Lord
Single · 2017
Fevers Worse
Single · 2010
Young Fathers is an alternative hip hop group based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Alloysious Massaquoi is originally from Liberia. Kayus Bankole is from Nigerian parents. 'G' Hastings is from the Drylaw "scheme" in north Edinburgh. Massaquoi moved to Edinburgh aged 4 and Bankole was born in Edinburgh but spent several years living in Maryland as well as Nigeria before moving back to the city of his birth in his teens. The trio has developed a reputation for making a unique blend of music utilising diverse influences which reflect their backgrounds. Young Fathers formed in 2008, and recorded their first album, Inconceivable Child... Conceived, with producer Timothy London at his studio in Edinburgh. "Straight Back on It," their first single from the album, released on Black Sugar Records, was well received. The NME dubbed the band "locked somewhere between De La Soul and 3T, but re-imagined for the hipster generation." Framing themselves as a "psychedelic hip hop boy band," Young Fathers spent the next three years touring the UK and Europe. During this time they released another single, "Automatic," appearing on Channel 4's Big Brother's Big Mouth in 2009 and performing at T in the Park…
