Its a Rap for Rocker Pete Doherty
Babyshables front man Pete Doherty has taken on an outlandish challenge. The 31 year old has been rocking with The Libertines with the Babyshambles and on his own in his recent solo album over the last 13 years, now he has decided to show versatility by joining forces with up and coming rap star Smiler.
Doherty met with the South London rap star in a studio complex in the capital. Smiler was invited by Pete himself to come along to the NME Weekender which took place just a few weeks ago.
There was rumours that work was going on between them after the festival weekender however They invited us to “NME’s weekender, where they were performing. We just went along to hang out, it wasn’t a business thing at all, we just got on really well”.
It appeared the some discussion must have been made as just a week later Doherty and Babyshambles guitarist Mick Whitnall visited Smiler in a studio to do some work together, Smiler commented on the recent connections with Pete and the band according to Sun reports he said “Through hanging out there was talk of doing stuff together. The next week, Pete and Mick came up to the studio to check what I was doing and he jumped on a track straight away”.
He continued “Pete’s a really cool guy, he wanted to work with me before he even heard anything I’d done. He knows his music and he’s not bound by genre”
Pete will feature on the track The Man I Used To Be, he will sing the opening section and chorus of the song that will appear on Smiler’s fourth coming album.
The rap genre isn’t totally out of Pete’s comfort zone he previously worked with well known grime act Lethal Bizzle on their 2006 track Boy.
And Doherty has expressed his love for the music genre on many occasions however claming he often chooses to leave it to the professionals. It seems that this time he just can’t help but get involved.
