Benjamin Mount, also known as Verse, Ben the Verse, The Verse and Pendulum Man, is an English

rapper Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...

, MC,

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and record label owner best known as the former MC in Australian/British

drum and bass Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...

group

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Biography

Pendulum

Since 2006 and up until 2012 Ben has been the MC for Pendulum's Live Tours, remained their MC at DJ set events until mid 2017. In 2010, he made his studio debut on the band's album Immersion as the vocals to the song "The Vulture". Ben left the Pendulum Live shows to focus on creating his own songs and running his own label. As of late 2017 he has also ceased to appear on DJ sets.

Producer

Verse is also a known

and

dubstep Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken be ...

producer. He had several drum and bass releases on his own label

Crunch Recordings Crunch may refer to: * Big Crunch, a hypothetical scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe * Credit crunch, a sudden reduction in the general availability of loans or a sudden tightening of the requirement conditions * Crunch (chocolate bar ...

alongside other artists such as SP:MC, dBridge and others. He also has several releases on N-Type's dubstep-label Wheel&Deal.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mount, Ben English male rappers Living people 1977 births Pendulum (drum and bass band) members Rappers from London