"Many people think they already have Deneil Tauqir Khan figured. They see a well dressed and groomed guy with a handsome face and a relation to one of the biggest pop stars on Earth. Deneil must be another one of commercial music's pretty boys then, right? Well you couldn't be further from the truth. He may photograph well and have many connections in the industry today but life hasn't always been all roses for the 20-year-old Londoner and he's definitely more than just a set of abs and a pearly white smile. "Ferocious", "witty", "razor sharp" and "biting" are words commonly used when describing Deneil's music and delving into his past, you'll soon understand where he receives this jagged edge and his brutally honest deliveries from."

"Born on a large, underprivileged council estate in Shoreditch, Hackney, Deneil was exposed to harsh nature of London's East End from an extremely young age. Crime was rampant all over the area in which he and elder siblings; Bilal (Billy), Faiza and Sayyid walked through daily with parents Joanne and Hedar. Muggings, knife crime, looting, vandalism and race crimes were all a regular occurrence and the Khan family, especially Deneil and his elder brother [Billy], fell into a lot of hot water as the years went by. He was only three years old when his parents split and he found himself in care but by then, Deneil had already witnessed many mentally scarring scenarios in and out of the family home. While his eldest siblings went off to live with an aunt over in Pakistan, Billy and Deneil grew up on the foster care system and became as thick as thieves. The "Terrible Two" caused havoc during their time in the care home and as they grew older, when curfews finally received an extension, the abrasive brothers often found themselves in scuffles with other violent young teens on the streets of Hackney and even took on a few gang members in their time despite barely being in their double-figured ages."

"The Khan brothers had different interests at heart though. Billy wanted to take on absolutely anyone that stood in his road and wanted to become feared by local gangs. Deneil, however, set out to make people quiver with his music. He certainly never needed to raise a hand. He generated a little buzz by freestyling at local events. Deneil has always been clever with his words and didn't beat around the bush when it came to getting something off his chest. Growing up listening to Grime and Bashment music, two VERY popular home grown genres, doing double time on verses came as second nature to him and studying the genre as intensely as Deneil did, he certainly knew a good beat when he heard one. He performed at underground raves, illegally, of course and started making waves around Shoreditch. A well turned out mixed race schoolboy absolutely destroying and humiliating local legends off the cuff? Unheard of. News spread fast but the awe didn't last for long. A culture in itself and a relatively new one at that, everyone keeps it close to their hearts and there is a well respected pecking order. The pioneers and greats are still around today as grime only emerged at the turn of the millennium. Deneil was unconventional and many believed he was trying to muscle in on a scene and style of life that he just thought was cool and some found him rather insulting, even though that was never the case. Khan grew up on the same harsh streets, listened to the same pirate radio stations and endured enough in his life to put his story into bar after bar but, threatened, a lot of the local community reacted negatively towards his arrival and continuous rise. Challenging him to battle after battle, trying to knock him off his stride, local MCs wanted to crush Deneil once and for all but like all of the Khan family, he just kept on coming back more resilient and ready than ever."

"Deneil eventually won a lot of people over and is now hailed as a "local legend" as well as being a role model for a lot of the Asian community living in England and the UK as a whole. There are always going to be haters and some just don't want to admit that the youngster has a true gift. That won't stop Deneil though. He loves the music he makes, he has a LOT to say and more importantly, he is a KHAN. He won't be going anywhere and certainly not quietly."

- Joe Walker, RWD Magazine

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Dakota:

OOC: Oh my god even I'm at home fangirling over this. I've just inspired one of the best freestyles I've ever seen on this forum, oh yes I have I'm gonna need you to scrap the EP and just go ahead and release the album, you cant deprive the forum of all this good music, it's wrong.