Landon Wordswell
Landon Wordswell is a 27 year old San Francisco, CA & Eugene, OR resident by way of Chicago & St. Louis. Those four cities combined have influenced the emcee’s tenacity, perspective, and insight. Landon’s stage performance & delivery have been praised on tours both nationally &internationally for it’s captivating crowd appeal & intricate rhyme schemes being coupled with tightly knitted personal lyrics. He has mastered his stage performance over the years by performing nights for audience’s enjoying intimate showings of 20 folks to state of the art venues mounting in as many as 10,000 heads in attendance.
The release of his first album, The Mourning After Pill (The MAP), gained him international notoriety by landing on a list of the top 20 most downloaded albums of March 2013 on bandcamp alongside such caliber as Ghostface Killah and many other well known artists. The MAP wouldn’t be Landon’s first taste of success though. Wordswell, under the moniker of “Youngs” at the time, had peaked at number 2 in the Japanese hip hop charts during his college years for a single pushed there by Origami/Shibuya Records on an album entitled “Revenge of Soul”.
Now in 2014 Landon is signed to both Cult Classic Records (London, UK) & Blue Bottle Records (New Zealand). Landon crossed paths with the legendary Gift of Gab by opening a show in Nevada City, CA on April 13, 2013 while touring to promote “The MAP” & they have been tour partners ever since. Landon Wordswell has also performed alongside greats such as Talib Kweli, Slum Village, Warren G, Mobb Deep, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born, Black Milk, Zion I, Raekwon (Wu-Tang), Guilty Simpson, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Devin The Dude, Binary Star, Aceyalone, Freestyle Fellowship & many, many more!
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