Scroobius Pip

For the nonsense poem, see The Scroobious Pip.

Scroobius Pip
Image of the white, bearded rapper performing on stage, holding a microphone. He is wearing a black t-shirt, a grey tie and a "trucker cap". The cap has a pistol morphed into a microphone.
Scroobius Pip on stage, 2010
Background information
Birth nameDavid Meads
Born (1981-08-03) 3 August 1981 (age 43)
Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, United Kingdom
GenresHip hop
Occupation(s)Rapper, spoken-word artist, actor, podcaster
Years active2005–present
LabelsSpeech Development Records, Strange Famous Records, Sunday Best Recordings, Lex Records
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

David Peter Meads (born 3 August 1981), known professionally as Scroobius Pip, is an English actor and podcaster as well as a former spoken word poet and hip hop recording artist from Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. He first gained prominence as one half of hip hop duo Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip sparked by their debut single "Thou Shalt Always Kill".

He manages his own record label, Speech Development Records. He hosted the award-winning weekly radio show The Beatdown on XFM in the late 2000s and currently hosts the Distraction Pieces Podcast. In August 2016, he released a book entitled Distraction Pieces.

He appears as French Bill, an assistant to Atticus, in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo (2017) on BBC One and FX.[1]

  1. ^ Swift, Andy (23 November 2015). "Tom Hardy's FX/BBC One Drama Taboo Adds 13, Begins Production". Tvline.com. Retrieved 16 January 2017.