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Festive Freestyle - Madhat McGore

1,725 views · Published 21 December 2016 · 3:21 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: BBC The Social · 2016 · Entertainment

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32 bars, in a car, no messin! Frontseat Freestyle is back for Season 2, and features Scotland's hottest emcees. Scotland's rap and hip hop scene is thriving - you'll find your new favourite emcee on this channel. 

This week, we've got friend of BBC The Social, Madhat McGore spitting some festive bars in Jay's car. I don't know how Jay managed to get him to do this, but he is wearing a santa hat. We are so happy! 


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BIOG:
Edinburgh born Madhat has been writing and producing music for the past 15 years. He started writing raps and experimenting with rhyming while at school, and is now known as one of the veterans of the Scottish hip hop scene.

Madhat, alongside his dedicated team, have taken Scottish rap music to new heights never seen before. With 18 releases on MCFR so far, including 3 critically acclaimed mixtapes, numerous supporting slots for established artists throughout the UK and rest of the world, Scotlands first Fire In The Booth, T in the Park appearance, gigs up and down the country and in Europe and many more achievements to date, Madhat is firmly dedicated on showing his worth to the UK scene.
In early 2015, Madhat was named as a new member to the Music Comes First Records board and instantly made a start in his new role by signing long time friends and Scottish legends Ghost (formally Shogun) and Bright Sparks. 

LYRICS: what can i say?
little bit of rhyme for a Xmas day
little bit of talk that ill tell you mate
enlighten you with this that i penned away

so back then it was known as a pagan day
a whole week in fact that would pave the way
moved on with the Romans
unlike them mate, they went and they stole it

made it their own and they act like they owned it
changing it up in a - single moment
no care - but a motive
a plan to convert all the pagans they bode with

Catholics, wanting the numbers
seeing all others as only opponents
and they're loosing their focus
wanting a plague of the people like locusts

see the pagans, had it all sussed
saturnalia was the name that they had
on the - 17th they would start the fuss
till the - 25th when it all got cut

then the Catholics came they would change it up
one day out the year, 25th of the month
and they claimed that that day in question
was that of their utmost saviour's birth

but let me take you on a tangent first
natural stuff like the air and the dirt
see the sun comes up, and it goes down
sun comes back and it comes with a burst

and the sun comes low in the winter months
the lowest point, around the 23rd
stays there till the 25th
where it, ressurects - or the birth of the sun

that's where it comes from - check this
a constellation called the 3 kings'll 
line up and point to the place where it is
the birth of the sun, not taking the piss

but I'm back fi the tangent, mate and I'm talking
all about Christmas, gifts and the stockings
white snow that's a pain when you're walking 
and nice little flakes on the cards when they're falling

but the Christmas tree that you put up
i bet you don't know why now if you're honest
back to the pagans
see they worshiped the trees in the forest

cut them down took them back their house
and they decorated them with stuff they would polish
assumed by the Christians too
they would pick and take all the bits that they wanted

centuries on its a family day
time that we spend and we're laughing away
got the gifts that we give with the cards that we take
and the food that we eat with the marvelous taste

but I'm glad that i know my history
contradictory, views we're living wi
chill and be happy 
embrace the cold with that snow - all glittery

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