Rukus

Twitter: Rukadiah
Facebook: Rukusofficialpage
Soundcloud: Rukdarapper
Youtube: Rukdarapper
www.rukdarapper.com

Rukus is a UK recording artist, DJ, and producer who has been professionally touring and performing both nationally and internationally as a solo artist and with his TRINITY collective.

Rukus’s first release ‘Let It Go’ produced by Baby J achieved nationwide success and critical acclaim. The single featuring Ty, Klashnekoff and Yogi took the UK Hip-Hop scene by storm and immediately became a ‘classic’ and launched Rukus into the airwaves in late 2005.

Rukus released a number of hits in 2006 that featured and had regular airplay on stations such Radio1, 1Xtra, MTV Base, Channel U. Notably collaborating with Def 1 on the track ‘Hustle Everyday’ which received an equal amount of positive reactions.

Along with his commercial success, Rukus has a healthy library of mixtapes and singles dating back a couple of years. Featuring artists such as Wretch 32, Pyrelli, Def 1, Skepta, Suncycle, J2K Richie Rich,
Skeme & Taz to name a few.

2006 BBC 1Xtra went to Rukus hometown of Derby for the launch of his debut mixtape ‘Originality Stands Alone’ which was hosted by Twin B.

2007/08 he had the opportunity to go on a UK tour with Mark Ronson after featuring on the Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse Valarie remix alongside Precha, Alex Blood and Malik MD7, which has sold over 450,000 copies.

Rukus known for his amazing energy and stage presence has also performed in various other events including The UK Takeover, 1Xtra Hip Hop weekend, Deal Real and the 1Xtra Home-grown Weekend and has performed in various countries including Europe, America and the Middle East.

In 2010 Rukus entered Sky 1’s national competition Must Be The Music, and beat thousands of contestants to gain a place in the televised live semi-finals. In 2011 the Band beat over 10,000 bands to be crowned the Live and Unsigned champions, one of the UK’s largest competitions for unsigned acts.
In 2012 the unique sounding ‘Skank (out my crew)’ and Call me King were both selected by BBC Introducing resulting in the track being play listed as ‘track of the week’ on BBC 1Xtra with Call me king also appearing on BBC Introducing’s Ones to watch 2013 Mixtape. 2014 Rukus had music and also featured in Giff Gaff Mobiles National TV campaign #alltheboss.

After taking time out of music to focus on family and his business Rukus is has been back in the studio preparing a couple of forthcoming projects dropping later in 2020.