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Meridian Dan (born Daniel Lawrence London) is a grime MC from Tottenham, North London. He is best known for his 2014 single "German Whip", and is a former member of seminal grime crews Meridian and Bloodline.
Meridian Dan was a peripheral member of Meridian Crew along with President T, Skepta, Jme, Big H, Bossman Birdie and Paper Pabs in the early noughties. During his time in the group he made regular appearances on the crew's show on pirate radio station Heat FM show and later on Déjà Vu FM. He featured on Skepta's "Private Caller" single in 2005. In 2005, Meridian Dan took a hiatus from music after Meridian Crew disbanded - with other crew members going on to form Boy Better Know and Bloodline Family - to pursue other interests and careers. During this time, he worked as a boxer, a plasterer, an electrician, a steel erector, and a welder. Having formerly been a steward at the club, he is a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur. In a 2014 interview, Meridian Dan said that his hiatus was because he wasn't getting paid for his music and had outside stresses to attend to.
He returned to making music in 2010 recording songs and making pirate radio appearances with other members of Bloodline Family. In 2013 he recorded German Whip featuring Big H of Bloodline and Jme of Boy Better Know, after the song achieved underground success Meridian Dan was signed to PMR Records who gave the song a commercial release in 2014. German Whip charted at #13 on the UK Singles Chart. This led the London Evening Standard to quip that his jump to stardom must have been "one of the slowest breakthroughs in music".
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