Mc Tali - Lyric On My Lip

Full Cycle crew member and honorary Bristolian, Tali, is no ordinary MC. You're more likely to hear the native New Zealander bursting into song than you are to hear her throwing down artless skibedee bibedee bops over a tune. And the combination of great songs, melodic vocals and rugged flow that she brings to raves translate perfectly onto her Roni Size-produced debut album, Lyric On My Lip.

Tali, real name Natalia Scott, has certainly paid her dues. Back in the late 90's she started attending drum & bass raves in her home country of New Zealand, and caught the bass bug, falling particularly hard for Krust's bass classic 'Maintain'. Soon she was mainlining tapes sent over by pals who had left the island for England. "I studied it like I was going for a degree in MCing. I'd listen to old GQ tapes, and I'd read magazines like Knowledge from cover to cover." Tali started her own radio show and joined a promotions team, bringing British DJs to play all over NZ. In 2001, Tali moved to Melbourne, and quickly established herself as one of Australia's foremost MCs.
Then, at a Reprazent gig fortune and confidence collided. Tali plucked up the courage to approach Roni Size and prove her skills. He was so impressed that he took Dynamite off the mic and let the novice Tali blow the minds of her hometown crowd. It was, as they say, the start of a beautiful friendship. However it wasn't one that Tali intended to keep as long-distance.

The crew had suggested that Tali come and work with them in Bristol. Deciding to run with her gut instinct, Tali upped sticks and came to Britain. Six months after their first meeting, she turned up on Roni's doorstep armed with three notebooks full of songs the rest is history!

Lyric On My Lip is certainly both soulful and deep.

It's an individualised sonic boom which connects super-sweet vocals with moments of freestyle MCing, and melts crystal-tipped production skills into perfectly pitched songs of escape and love with the allure of a party that never finishes.

"I'm a diamond in the rough," says Tali with a smile. "But whether I'm singing or freestyling, I always bring a bit of soul." And her favourite MC ever? "Dynamite (Full Cycle MC)," she says without hesitation. "He can go doubletime really fast, he changes styles, and he can freestyle on the spot, making up a tune about your trainers, the TV, whatever he sees in front of him.
" It's a good time to be a blinding new MC , and Tali intends to take her mic all the way to the top.

Lyric on My Lips also features the following artists

Dynamite MC
Dj Krust & Die
Roni Size

Its out now in NZ thanks to Shock Records or check out www.shock.com.au