Mr B the Gentlemen Rhymer

Mr B the Gentlemen Rhymer

Mr B the Gentlemen Rhymer is a UK chap hop and hip hop artist. He works in received pronunciation hip-hop and acid house, and also describes his output as chap-hop and acid ragtime.

Style and performance

He performs with a banjolele and presents himself with a stiff upper lip, using manners and upper-class mannerisms as part of the act. His songs focus on pipe-smoking, high society, cricket and sexual misadventure, alongside reworked versions of better-known hip-hop pieces in a chap-hop style.

Context

He spends much of his career bringing manners back to popular culture, and his material is built around entertaining and amusing audiences through this character-led approach.