20 Facts About Gappy Ranks

Gappy Ranks left the group in 2004 and embarked on a solo career.

In 2005, Gappy Ranks was featured on the Vice law entertainment mixtapes.

Gappy Ranks performed live at Earl's Court in front of a crowd of 17,000 for the first Kiss 100 awards.

Gappy Ranks played a full UK tour which brought him to cities such as Manchester, Birmingham, and Newcastle.

Gappy Ranks recorded for former UK reggae giants Jet Star Records in North West London where he became an assistant engineer, giving him time to grow and develop his love for music and network which led him to work with record label Peckings.

In January 2010, with the introduction from Silverstar Sound's DJ Gussy, Gappy Ranks joined forces with Pierre Bost; CEO of French record label Special Delivery.

Gappy Ranks began to tour across the world, starting with European countries such as: France, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.

Gappy Ranks signed a three-year deal with Greensleeves Records and in 2010, released his debut album Put the Stereo On on Greensleeves' Peckings subsidiary.

Gappy Ranks was nominated for the 2010 MOBO Award in the 'Best Reggae Act' category, losing out to Gyptian.

Gappy Ranks has since toured and performed throughout Europe, the United States, the West Indies, and Australasia.

Gappy Ranks's tour included Japan and in March 2011, he found himself in the middle of the world's biggest earthquake and tsunami.

The disaster killed over 20,000 people and Gappy Ranks recorded a tribute track titled, "I Was There".

Gappy Ranks returned to the UK and was featured on BBC's Later.

Gappy Ranks has performed at legendary venues such as BB King's in New York, the Roxy theatre in Los Angeles, the Fillmore in San Francisco, and the Jazz Cafe in London.

Gappy Ranks has been billed for worldwide festivals such as Summer Jam in Germany, the Glastonbury Festival in the UK, and Best of the Best in Miami.

Ranks has acted as producer on a number of projects through his Hot Coffee Music label and has produced for recording artists such as Gyptian, Chino, Busy Signal, Delly Ranx, Bugle, Khago, Bramma, Laden, Bobby Hustle, JBoog, Chukki Star, Timeka Marshall, Torch Campbell, Exco Levi, Kim Kelly, and Reddman UK who Gappy Ranks signed to his label in 2011.

In 2013, Gappy Ranks performed at the Raggamuffin reggae festival in New Zealand, as well as his Cookies Reloaded tour 2013 of the East coast USA.

June 2013 saw Gappy Ranks performing at the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival for the first time.

Gappy Ranks collaborated with Beres Hammond on a new version of the latter's "I Surrender".

In June 2014, Gappy Ranks collaborated with New Zealand hip-hop producer P-Money on an eight-track EP titled The Baddest; The EP was recorded at Red Bull Music Academy in Auckland, New Zealand.