MC Hammersmith launches debut album, and confirms 2024 tour
- Freestyle improv rapper Will Naameh, better known as MC Hammersmith, has announced a debut album and a live tour
- MC Hammersmith: Straight Outta Brompton will tour between March and April 2024
- His 10 track album Mother's Fettuccine is available to listen to now on platforms including iTunes and Spotify
Will Naameh will tour as improv rapper MC Hammersmith between March and April 2024. He has also released his debut album today via platforms including iTunes and Spotify.
His promoters explain: "MC Hammersmith, the world's leading freestyle rapper to emerge from the ghetto of middle-class West London releases his debut album Mother's Fettuccine on 6th October via Distro Kid.
"He has also announced his first ever UK tour, after wowing the fans and critics alike with his new show Straight Outta Brompton at the Edinburgh Fringe. The tour starts in his hometown of Edinburgh on 19th March at The Stand and culminates on 28th April at Brighton's Old Market.
"MC Hammersmith (Will Naameh) was born to an English mother and a Syrian father. He attended an all-male, middle class private school in Hammersmith. After escaping this, he took up improv classes and started performing freestyle rap comedy. Although technically mixed race, his middle-class English accent and pale skin tone means he has always passed for white. This, combined with his awkward personality, made for the perfect framing device to draw comedy from his hip hop performances.
"He has a Master's degree in Linguistics, specialising in phonology, from the University of Edinburgh. He was studying at the same time he started rapping. His linguistics expertise helped him become a full-time freestyle rapper, as he combined his love of hip hop with his academic studies into the mechanics of rhyming.
"Since then, he has performed at Fringe and comedy festivals all around the world, headlined at major comedy clubs across the UK, and has won multiple comedy awards for his freestyle rap performances. Being a freestyle rapper meaning he raps spontaneously, unscripted, with absolutely no preparation and at lightning speed. The lyrics and rhymes of his raps are 100% improvised.
"He also has OCD - in particular to do with obsessive thoughts. He has since discovered one of the benefits of OCD was developing an obsession with rhyming: if he had a thought of a rhyme, he wrote it down. He now has his own personal rhyming dictionary (and memorised it), and at last count it was 15,000 words long!
"He also writes and performs scripted hip-hop comedy. His video Posh British Boy Raps in Car was a viral hit gaining over 10 million views on social media. Since then, he has released several more scripted hip hop comedy videos, that also went viral. He is also a writer for acclaimed YouTube web series Epic Rap Battles of History."
The comic himself says: "Hello! MC Hammersmith here. I am thrilled and delighted to be touring my improvised rap show across the UK. I can't wait to hear your suggestions, turn them into freestyle rap tracks live onstage, and rave loudly with audiences across the country! Feel free to challenge me. Throw me stupidly long words. Suggest impossibly complicated things to rap about. I never feel any challenge is too difficult because my private school upbringing instilled me with reckless and entirely misplaced self-confidence. Brap brap brap! Sorry."
Meanwhile, speaking about his new album, he says: "I am tremendously excited to be releasing my debut comedy rap album, Mother's Fettuccine. Get it? Like the famous Eminem lyric Mom's Spaghetti, but different words because I'm posh. Lovely stuff. The album is 10 tracks. The first 5 tracks are viral comedy raps I released in video format on social media from April 2020 onwards, now re-recorded in studio quality. The second 5 tracks are brand new original comedy raps. This is a scripted comedy rap album as I wanted to push myself fully into a scripted realm for this project. I hope that my love of wordplay, technical flow, musical comedy, and - of course - the genres of hip hop and rap music as a whole, shines through."
Below are the dates for the tour. Tickets are available via mchammersmith.com
Mother's Fettuccine is available to listen to on platforms including iTunes and Spotify. Listening links
2024 dates
March
Tues 19th: EDINBURGH - Stand Comedy Club
Thurs 21st: GLASGOW - Stand Comedy Club
Sat 23rd: STOCKTON - Arc
Sun 24th: HULL - Comedy Lounge
Wed 27th: NEWCASTLE - Stand Comedy Club
Thurs 28th: BLACKPOOL - Comedy Station
Fri 29th: LIVERPOOL - Philharmonic
Sat 30th: SALFORD - The Lowry
Sun 31st: SHEFFIELD - Leadmill
April
Thurs 18th: LEEDS - Wardrobe
Fri 19th: BRISTOL - Hen & Chickens
Sat 20th: LEICESTER - Y Theatre
Sun 21st: BIRMINGHAM - Glee Club
Thurs 25th: OXFORD - Glee Club
Fri 26th: CAMBRIDGE - Junction
Sat 27th: LONDON - Leicester Square Theatre
Sun 28th: BRIGHTON - The Old Market