Kevin Georgiou, a.k.a. K. Koke, is the latest British artist to be signed to Jay-Z's label Roc Nation. Kevin is a 27-year-old Greek Cypriot rapper who became known on the U.K. underground scene as part of a crew called U.S.G. and was also famously put on trial for murder of a footballer last year (he was acquitted). K.Koke is no middle class pretender – if successful he will take gritty U.K. hip-hop to an international audience. He teams up with U.S. rapper Wale on his first single since signing to Roc Nation and, like Rita Ora's Roc The Life, he's making sure everyone knows exactly which label he's signed to by releasing a track called Roc For Life.
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