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As frontman of Mr Hudson & The Library (a name that tells a great deal about his quite delicate and refined sensibilities), Ben Hudson’s blend of classic songwriting and hip hop beats on his 2007 debut, 'A Tale Of Two Cities’, achieved small sales, minor critical acclaim and the attention of one particular superfan. “Mr Hudson brings a lot to the table,” enthuses West, who signed him as a solo artist to his own G.O.O.D Music label. “He can write, produce and sing. His understanding and passion for different genres of music are what makes him so unique. I believe he has the potential to be one of the most important artists of his generation.”.
The two had what Hudson describes as “a long courtship”, with occasional encounters backstage at gigs, “being really geeky and bonding over snare drum samples.” Hudson collaborated with Kanye on his recent ’808s & Heartbreak’ album and is a featured guest on Jay Z’s forthcoming ’Blueprint 3’. And West has executive produced Mr Hudson’s forthcoming album, 'Straight No Chaser’. “I said 'What’s the plan?” Hudson recalls of their first session. “He said 'Its really simple, you do the music and I’ll make you a star.” So far, everything seems to be going as West predicted. The first product of their joint efforts is a single, 'Supernova’, released next week and currently number one pre-release on iTunes. It is a big, brash, bombastic pop song in which Hudson and West duet in highly stylised autotune, so bold and in your face it is almost impossible to imagine it originating with this really rather polite and well mannered Englishman. “When I first moved to London, I’d be quite foetally folded up around my Spanish guitar, trying to play my difficult little jazz chords, plucking and cooing into the microphone.
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Once Kanye said we were going to make a big record, I had to rise to the occasion. I was like a farmers market and realised I needed to vacuum pack what I did, put a barcode on it, put it in a supermarket and let people decide whether they wanted to buy it or not. It was still going to be organic sausages but it wasn’t going to be on straw, on a wheelbarrow in a backstreet.”. Intriguingly, the subtext of Supernova suggests a certain discomfort with the superficial trappings of success (“They’ve got all the things I thought I wanted / But I can’t afford to fake anymore / To live this facade and smile as the warm champagne pours”). There is real complexity and intelligence to Hudson’s songwriting, dressed up in the colourful raiment of uber pop. He’s like the Sting of Bling, and nestling in with the singalong tunes are strange tales of dislocation and heartbreak, fuelled by a very un-hip hop insecurity (on 'There Will Be Trouble’ he describes himself as 'another imposter / On a major label roster’).