Hackney’s original battle rapper Professor Green returns with the brand spanking new single ‘Hard Night Out’ and B-side ‘Upper Clapton Dance’ . Straight from the streets of East London and brimming with confidence the pro is ready to show the competition just how he rolls.


The new single consists of two massive tunes that are certainly going to be club dancefloor fillers this summer. Hard Night out hits out with bouncy basslines , dizzy drumbeats and sick synths genre bending from pop to grime to rock and all the way back to rap again . Upper Clapton Dance samples a piece of classical music (Hungarian Dance #5) and show’s his more serious side going into his upbringing in Hackney.


Professor Green (or Stephen Paul Manderson as he’s known on his birth certificate) was raised in Nortwold estate in Upper Clapton by his Grandmother, trading his school attendance for hanging on the streets and causing the usual youthful mischief. Hip Hop became the main vein in Greens life and he decided that the usual 9-5 just wasn’t for him. Mike Skinner attended one of Green’s first battles and immediately saw him as something his label ‘The Beats’ needed. This was before (as Green says) it went “Bye Bye” in December 07.


Now Green has bounced back bigger than ever to show the masses what he’s made of… keep an eye out for tour and album news…