Kel FST real name Agwu Kelechi Isaac. He started with miming of latest songs with other friends in the dormitory at high school whenever they didnt have to go for evening prep. His older brother used to record songs on tapes off the radio and this is how Kel got into rap music..
He graduated from University of Lagos in 2008 with BSc (HONS) in Marine Sciences....1995 was the year and main influences were Notorious B.I.G, Craig Mac, Ice Cube, KRS one, Jay Z and the likes..he fell in love with Notorious B.I.G and had tapes of him from the early times..he then proceeded to writing songs by himself as at 1998 and the death of B.I.G further sparked his intrest in music..it was not until 2005 when he recorded his first official single 'WHO U BE' which was produced by versertile hiphop producer Laylow..he went for shows at that period and the name spread further and in 2006 he was invited to do a track *LYRICAL GANGSTAR* on the 'MAGA MUST PAY mixtape' by Halflife/Killari/Soundville..the mixtape boasts of super producers like Laylow, Kraft of Kraftmatics, Phenom, Bionic, M-speech and dope mcees such as A.Q, Cypha of Gidi Gang, PointBlank, Phenom etc...The mixtape got mass appeal by hiphop fans in Nigeria..
The thirst for music increased and in late 2006 he formed a rap group with fellow rapper/school mate Capital-C called THE CLIQUE TEAM (TCT)..Kel and Capital-C recorded a few single joints together including 'RAP STOLE MY HEART' that featured Laylow of Soundville Ent... And in 2007, TCT released their 1st mixtape 'KRUSHED BY THE HOOFZ' with new crew member Sixth Sense...
THE KBTH mixtape got a lotta airplays on the radio that further jolted peoples intrest in Kel FST..he also formed a record company called E.I.E NATION which handles all Kel FST's affairs...In 2008, Keybone, a lagos based mc got in touch with Kel to work on a Collabo album..the album was titled 'URBAN JOURNALISTS' and they both recorded 14 hot joints with features by Dark Poet, Bube of MTVbase freestyle fame, Mr Jembe, Chuk-D, Phoebe, Awesome etc.. And super producers like Laylow, SoSick of classic tunes, H-Code, MLV, Skobs, Frenzy etc...
Due to some setbacks and misunderstandings, the album never came out and Kel later moved on to work on many features on many joints with Mr Jembe, Awesome, MLV etc..In 2009 he teamed up with MLV and various artistes to work on the album 'SWAGGER PLUS PLUS' which boasts of the youtubed jam called 'MR SWAGGER (OYATO)' ft Mr Jembe...but due to the bastardizing of the 'swagger' word in nigerian music at that time, they decided to stop work on the album..more music came calling and MLV super producer teamed up with Kel FST and recorded the hit song 'MAKE SENSE' in April 2009..the song got mass appeal of many downloads in d space of 3hours and they teamed up and shot a video for the song on July5th 2009..the video is yet to be out but the song got hosted on the popular nigerian music website Notjustok.com by site manager Ovie Ofugara..
Kel FST teamed up with his TCT crew again in late 2009 and recorded their 2nd mixtape 'BRUISED ON A HAYSTACK'..they marvelled lots of hiphop fans by recording 17songs in 3days..the mixtape got them lots of respect and most of d joints can b found online...it was time for Kel to do something on his own and in 2010 january he released his solo mixtape tagged ''NOTORIOUS K.E.L''..
The mixtape is a 19 tracker that got the attention of many Djs and bloggers in nigeria and the diaspora..HNIC doc gee of Raypower got noticed by Kel FST's new tape and songs off the tape are still beign aired till date on Raypower fm and the likes especially '10 BROAD COMMANDMENTS'..Kel FST is on every hiphop heads lips and everyone wanted him on a joint..it wasnt long until MLV linked him with legendary naija hiphop star Cashino of the NDT fame who is based in the UK and they jumped on a song together with Mr Jembe called 'WE GO MAKE AM' which is gaining lots of mass appeal on the internet and major radio stations in nigeria..
In January 2011 Kel FST teamed up yet again with fellow TCT member Cap-C and released a 3rd studio mixtape by TCT tagged "The Adventures of Butch and Sundance" which is a 16 tracker mixtape and boasts of features from Cashino NDT to DBlack NDT to JayCii, Ikhide, Omotee-Angel K, Tera, Keybone, Lakes Brizzle and a host of other emcees..
Also in January of 2011 Kel FST got signed to D'Quest Records, an independent music label based in Debrecen, Hungary..Kel FST has featured on many songs and it wont be long until the world gets to feel more of him...he is currently working on a new tape tagged 'WARDS & SYRINGES' due for a summer 2011 release & also on his 1st album due for a late 2011 release!!..
Excellence Is Expected!!
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