After receiving publicity on Rinse FM and SB:TV, he gained a recording contract with Mercury (*37*), and made plenty of visitor appearances on different artists’ information, together with Ed Sheeran’s Goodbye to You, Mz Bratt’s Speeding By and Cher Lloyd’s Dub on the Track.
He was additionally invited by Gary Barlow to seem on the 2011 Children In Need single, a canopy of Massive Attack’s Teardrop that additionally featured Chipmunk, Wretch 32, Labrinth, Ms Dynamite and Rizzle Kicks.
Around the identical time, he acquired right into a confrontation with the “king of grime”, Wiley, accusing him of promoting out and being previous his prime on diss tracks like Pop Artist and It’s Over. (Ellis additionally had a long-standing beef, external together with his former collaborator P Money).
The musician was nominated for the BBC’s Sound of 2012 prize, and launched his debut album, Voices In My Head, that yr.
Despite the success of the only Overload, the album stalled outdoors the Top 100, amid a dispute together with his document label.
After extricating himself from the contract, he put out a sequence of unbiased albums – as properly as a seventh quantity of Rotten Riddims – however step by step moved behind the scenes as a author and producer.
Shortly earlier than his dying, he resurrected the Dot Rotten title for a brand new single, Psalms For Praize, external, that spoke about his dedication to his profession.
“Made mistakes, now I treat my career like a second child,” he rapped. “And that’s an oath I stay committed to like a wedding vow.”
The track was co-credited to Who’s British? – which turned out to be one other of Ellis’s many pseudonyms. He was additionally recognized as Three-Six, The Spirit, Big Dotti and Terror Child.
