Skibadee

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Alfonso Bondzie also known as MC Skibadee is a Drum and Bass MC musician from London, England. He has been performing at parties and raves all over the UK and US since 1994, and who'se success as a stand alone performer is yet to be matched by anyone in the underground Drum and Bass scene. His fame started off after feature on radio show on the London pirate radio station Kool FM.

By early 1995 Skibadee was featured regularly at events such as Thunder & Joy, Spirit of the Jungle and his regular spot on City Sound Radio. It was not long after that Kool FM came his way and Skibadee began his fast rise to the top. By the end of 1995 Skibadee was resident for all Kool FM, Fever, T & J, Malachite, Electrybe, NJC, Designer label Ball and Innersense. Skibadee's time had come and he was more than just a household name. Along with his partner, MC Dett, Skibadee launched a new project called 2Xfreestyle in late 1997, which involved applying their Drum and Bass flow over the regular hip hop beat to get a double time effect.

The single and subsequent video was a success and after being accepted on M.T.V. and The Box, it swiftly went to number 3 in the Beat Box chart for several weeks. In 1999 Skibadee began to notch up the first of 3 the Knowledge Awards for best Mc Also three Accelerated culture awards which equates to 6 years in the number 1 spot. No MC has come close to achieving these but MC Eksman is one of the rising stars who has the potential to match or eclipse Skibadee's success. Since 2000, Skibadee began collaborating with MC Shabba D which has now become drum and bass most famous partnership S.A.S, Skibba and Shabba.

[edit] Famous Skibadee Lyrics

"Deal with the matter, deal with it proper"
"I'm not a carpenter, I get sharper, when the night-time comes I get darker"
"Oi Oi! Ravers are you ready for the convoy?"
"One-two with the raver, iddi-biddi play ya like Nintento, Sony & Sega, sharp lyrics cut thru beats like light sabre from Darth Vader, Solo, Chewbacca and Princess Leia. Uh!"
"One two, buckle up a blue suede shoe, what am I gonna do? I'm not gonna sniff glue, no"
"Skibadee, Skibbadanger - Re-arranger, hit you with the raw for sure I'm not smokin draw"
"R A V E R. Big up The Mic, inside the arena!"
"Deal wit the M A T T E R selecter, this one sharper like a razor.
"Celica, Toyota, Skibadee the supplier, cut sharp like barbed wire, on fire, yellow pages gets you higher"
"Now A dont animate, alienate or agravate To the B dont be late I'll break that bantam weight To C I calculate I cant wait I contemplate, Cultivate and concentrate, Lyric time to celebrate But D, delegate to the E i educate To the F dont fabricate I facinate the featherweight And G graduate to the H dont hesitate to I imma-illustrated not imitate but infiltrate To the L, liquidate, liberate and legislate To the M its the marvellous mate N dont negate The O, gonna operate, orchestrate its overweight Poison P gonna penetrate that paperweight MC mate R gonna reinstate Supa S Skibadee the great T never tolerate The U I'm underway, gonna rock to W I'm well away I'm bang on time never late risin' up like I baked you a cake"
"2000 and Skibz" (from the year 2006)
"S.A.S, S.A.S Killa, Shabba, Skibba"