Durrty Goodz

Durrty Goodz

Durrty Goodz (born Dwayne Mahorn in London, England) is a grime artist.

Artist's Summary

There has never been an MC that has beaten Wiley in a cage fight, but Waltham Forest's Durtty Goodz was definitley the closest. Three or so years ago when the hunt was on to find out if the success of Dizzee Rascal wasn’t just a fluke, he looked like the most likely candidate to hop on the major label love-’em-and-leave-’em gravy train. Like Rascal, he could flow double time but with the clarity of any hip hop MC. After first starting out on Mystic FM in Hackney and moving up through the pirate stations, he’d managed to get himself signed to Polydor and was dropping verses on remixes for rappers like David Banner.

Then it all started to go wrong. Goodz, his half brother Crazy Titch, and their stepfather were all arrested and locked up on suspicion of the murder of a young producer linked with an MC who had dissed Durrty. Despite the media headlines implying that the murder was over the lyrics of a song, the actual circumstances behind the killing were far more feudalistic, but will probably never be publicly known. After spending over a year in Pentonville and Belmarsh prisons, Goodz was cleared of all charges in November 2006. Titch and his stepfather were sentenced to serve a minimum of 30 years each in jail. Goodz returned to music in 2007 with his first official release titled Axiom.

Discography

• Axiom EP (July 26 2007)
• Ultrasound (January 26 2009)
• Born Blessed