You might know him from the memes, his antics or his hilarious music videos, but as time goes on Skeaz Lauren is slowly becoming one of the most forgotten pioneers of Australian Hip-hop. Skeamo's main innovations came during his time in Sydney Serchaz in the late 2000's where Sydney classics like 'Searchin Like My Brother' and 'Fukn Oath' could be heard pumping out of nokias in Sydneys inner-city all the way to the west and beyond. Sydney Serchaz was made up of Sky'High, Nter and Skeamo, and somehow against all odds, it's Skeamo that is the last Sydney Sercha that is still active online. Skeamo was the first artist that really created a character behind the music. From his Polo everything dress code to his cocky attitude, Skeamo really started the idea of branding yourself to stick out from the crowd. Rack Lo, a member of LoLife in New York even recognized Skeamo as the Polo king of Australia. Skeamo and Sydney Serchaz were the first crew in Sydney that really embraced the 'adlay' style and attitude, they rapped on dirty south beats which hadn't really been done in Australia, and its undisputed that they started 'Gutter rap'. For the younger people reading this, it might seem weird but there was a time where Sydney slang like 'Eshay' was never used on a track, then Sydney Serchaz came along and dropped a hit titled 'Eshay'. When you go back and listen to older Skeamo tracks you might think it sounds amateur or low budget, but that's how all pioneers sound, he changed the course of Aus hiphop by introducing trap beats with an Australian accent. Artists like Rops, Alex Jones, Kearve and Son of Sam all took inspirations from Skeamo. As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time when Kerser was actually less famous then Sydney Serchaz, collabs like 'Gutter Kunts' and 'Pick Australia Up' introduced alot of Sydney hiphop fans to Kersers music.
"They were on that trapped out shit like 4,5,6 years ago and now everyones following the fad" -Alex Jones (2013)
"They started rapping to that south shit before me"-Fortay (2013)
"Sydney Serchaz is the crew! And Skeamo is the boss!" -Sydney Serchaz, Serching like my brother
