Rappers, Presenters

Margs

by 16 February 2023
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Who is Margs?

Margs, real name Andre Wright, is a rapper and podcaster from Hackney in east London. He is known as a member of the Hackney rap collective Mashtown and as one of the hosts of No Behaviour Podcast, which launched in January 2020.

 

Margs’ Media Career

Margs has served as a host, podcaster and personality on a range of YouTube content since the mid-2010s. He has expressed gratitude for being featured on Filthy Fellas, 3 Shots of Tequila and HC Pod, as these led him to create his own brand in 2020.

 

No Behaviour Podcast

Margs and Loons launched the No Behaviour Podcast in 2020. They release weekly episodes featuring casual conversations between themselves, friends and acquaintances, including T-Mac and Woodzy. In late 2022 Beano also joined the team. The podcast also briefly appeared on Link Up TV’s The Hub in 2021.

 

The Day After

The Day After is a current affairs show created by THE NEW BLXCK in April 2022, featuring Margs, Esther and Emman. New episodes are released every weekday and sometimes feature guests. Margs hosts The Reaction sports segment and the Done Out ‘Ere news segment of the show.

 

Filthy Fellas / Filthy @ Five

Filthy Fellas is a football-based YouTube channel created by Poet, Craig Mitch and Tego Sigel. Margs appeared in the first series of Filthy Fellas in 2015 and made occasional appearances thereafter. Filthy @ Five is the channel’s podcast and Margs has been a regular cast member since 2020. Other notable stable personnel include Miles Fearon, Specs Gonzalez, Lippy, Savage Dan and others.

 

Champions League of Everything

Margs is one of the main panellists on Champions League of Everything, a JD show launched in 2021 designed to rate and rank things within the UK Rap scene. It is hosted by Chuckie Online, also features Tazer Black, Lippy and Mimi the Music Blogger.

 

The Listening Party

From May 2019 Margs served as one of the core team on The Listening Party, a music reaction show on Link Up TV where a group shared thoughts on new UK releases together. Tricky, Lippy, Hemah K, Nashavalli and Nada were among the core cast.

 

Just Hype

Margs has been featured in many shows on the Just Hype YouTube channel, including Brunchin’, Hype Reacts and Make the Cut.

 

Pen Game Rap Battle

In June 2020 Margs launched Pen Game  as a rap battle tournament. Lippy, LV General, Joe Black, Joey Clipstar and Nashavelli all served as judges. The format ran for four series and held a live show at Box Park Croydon in January 2024.

 

United Road Podcast

In January 2017 United Road Podcast launched with Adam McKola and the Filthy Fellas Manchester United supporters Skribz, B.O.A.T. and Margs. The collective recorded together releasing audio via SoundCloud and live YouTube videos up to February 2020.

 

Margs Additional Media Roles

Daily Sport

Between 2013 and 2014 Margs hosted GRM Daily’s short-lived Daily Sport segment in which he shared his opinion on the latest developments in the Premier League.

 

Link Up TV

In April 2021 Margs interview his mother on Link Up TV’s YouTube channel to promote her biographical book release.

 

Margs’ Music Career

Margs got into music via peers in his area. He was initially a Grime MC (going under the name Marger Dan) but was urged to rap by olders in the community including Hypo. Early inspiration included many East Coast Rap acts including The Notorious B.I.G., DMZ, Jay-Z, Prodigy and the Outlawz. He was also a fan of Hot Boyz and Eminem before he started to rap.

Margs gained attention as part of the 2000s east London rap collective Mashtown. He is seen as the face of the music collective as he was one of the longest serving members and most consistent at releasing music. Margs and his cousin Chedz came up with the name and gradually added local friends and talent to the collective.

Over the years Mashtown also included local rappers and associates such as Hypo, Tricky, T-Mac, Papes, Yardie, Kaos, R.D.M. and later Asco.

In 2010 Margs was one of a vast grouping of artists selected by Wiley to be part of his A-List music collective. The concept was short-lived and included J2K, Shola Ama, Young Kye, Sadie Ama, Kivanc and Mz Bratt.

In 2011 Margs released a solo mixtape hosted by then BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood. The project was engineered by and featured production from Steel Banglez.

In early 2018 Margs released Pen Game 2 and shared its instrumental to create a viral challenge for other rappers. Notable participants include K Trap, Ambush, Asco, Snap Capone, Grafh, Bonkaz, Manga St. Hilare, Posty, RM and Joe Black.

Margs has featured on many of the most notable UK freestyle platforms including GRM Daily’s Daily Duppy, Link Up TV’s Behind Barz, SB.TV’s F64, Tim Westwood’s Crib Session and Charlie Sloth’s Fire in the Booth. In 2023 he recorded a GRM Radio session.

 

Margs Discography

Mashtown Discography

Margs started his career as a member of Mashtown with his cousin Chedz (Chedda Boy) and friends Papes, Tricky, Hypo and T-Mac. They recorded and released music locally in limited numbers. As a result only two of the early Mashtown mixtapes can be found online via YouTube.

  • As Good as It Gets (2003)
  • It Only Gets Better (2004)
  • Stay Poor or Run the Streets (2005)

 

Margs Solo Discography

In 2006 the Mashtown members recorded regularly in a studio in Stratford. Margs released his first solo mixtape in 2007 and went on to release another in 2011. After a hiatus for several years he returned to music in 2017 and released a mixtape in 2019.

  • Return of the King (2007)
  • Margs on a Hype Ting! (2011)
  • Untold Truth (2019)

Margs Collaborations

Margs has worked with a variety of high profile musicians in the UK, including the following:

  • Wiley
  • Giggs
  • Ghetts
  • Krept
  • K Koke
  • Asco
  • Cashh
  • Benny Banks
  • Joe Black
  • G-FrSH
  • Fem Fel

 

Margs’ Media Appearance

Margs had appeared on a number of different YouTube channels and shows including the following:

Margs Personal Life

Margs was born in 1985 and grew up in Hackney. He lived with his mother, two brothers Corey and Gavin and sister China. Margs is of Jamaican and Barbadian heritage.

Margs’ older brother Corey Wright (who originally went by the name Margs/Marger) was 20 when he was shot and killed in the passenger seat of a car travelling through Lower Clapton in April 2001.

Corey’s murder is thought to be as a result of Corey’s involvement in death of a 16-year-old from Finsbury Park associated with the Tottenham Mandem gang (as part of a joint enterprise conviction). Corey’s killer has yet to have been conclusively determined.

Margs attended Central Foundations Boys School in Islington, where he formed a long-term bond with the rapper Joe Black. Despite being suspended from school for various incidents, he completed secondary school. However he didn’t go to college. Margs left his mother’s home when he was 15 and lived in hostel until he was given a nearby council flat in the area.

Margs has been the victim of a variety of violent incidents over the years, including being stabbed in the head. Margs was shot in the leg in Hackney in 2011. He has mentioned that as a result of his injuries he was unable to take part in that August’s riots, although the police questioned him in relation to looting at the time.

Margs’s mother Janet Wright released a book in 2021 that documents aspects of her life and that of her family. While speaking on the book’s omissions, in an interview Janet revealed that in 2010 she and Margs’ sister were nearly shot at the video shoot for Mashtown and Wiley’s single Between Us.

In July 2019 Margs collapsed on the treadmill at the gym following an aneurism, and has seen recovered after an extended period of time in hospital.

Margs has a Mashtown ‘MT’ tattoo on his chest. In August 2022 Margs had the gap in his front teeth closed.

Margs is a parent and has a son.

 

Margs’ Criminal History

Margs has described being involved in various criminal activity as a youth, both in his music and on his media appearances (particularly on No Behaviour Podcast). He is known to have spent 15 months in prison between 2007 and 2008, including time at HMP Feltham, Brixton and Hollersley Bay.

 

Margs FAQs

What are Margs’ nicknames?

Margs is an abbreviation of his original nickname. His brother used to be known as Marga and Margs used to go by Little Marga. Once his brother passed away, he went by Marga. Marga/mauger/marger is a Jamaican patois term for meagre which effectively means skinny. In this sense his nickname (and his brother’s) derived from his body frame in his youth.

Margs also has a range of other nicknames he has either self-styled or has been associated with by others.

Via music

  • LL Margs (thanks to his 2007-released track of the same name, inspired by LL Cool J’s female-focused rap approach)

Via No Behaviour Podcast:

  • 6 Foot Plus of Pure Temptation
  • Big Margs from the East Side of the Bridge
  • Evil Killoski
  • Brediano (after a viral video recorded at GRM Gala 2022 with Maya Jama)

 

How old is Margs?

Margs was born on 25th August 1985.

 

Was Margs a member of London Fields Boys?

Margs grew up in the London Fields area of Hackney in east London. Others living in the area in the late 1990s and early 2000s include many Mashtown members and associates that have gone on to feature on No Behaviour Podcast.

 

How tall is Margs?

The rapper and podcast Margs is 6’3”.

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