Leading the current crop of rising Irish Rap stars, Versatile have proven to be one of most resilient and controversial artists ever to enter the Irish music industry. Through highs and lows, they have weathered the storm, with the help of a cult- like following of fans, Versatile have made Irish music history, all independently via their own label - OUTBURSTPAL.

To quote Grammy award-winning Hip Hop Legend COOLIO...

“Ladies and gentlemen! Casper Walsh, Eskimo-su-motherf****in-preme, the super producer Evan Kennedy, It’s Versatile, the first Irish Hip Hop supergroup!“

The group composed of rappers Casper Walsh, Eskimo Supreme and producer Evan Kennedy exploded onto the scene with their Dublin City G’s EP / mixtape in 2017, rising through the ranks leaving a trail of sold out shows and stunned audiences, to now being the definition and reference point of Irish Hip Hop.

May 2020 saw VERSATILE independently released their debut album ‘FUCK VERSATILE’.

Summer 2019 saw Versatile make Irish music history and cemented them as Ireland’s biggest Hip Hop group.

Their headline show at Cork Marquee (5,000 cap) sold out in minutes making it the biggest Hip Hop concert to be headlined by an Irish artist in Ireland.

This success was soon followed by their unfor- gettable performance at Longitude Festival ‘19 to a 40,000 strong crowd sharing the stage with Cardi B and Stormzy and pulling the biggest audience of the weekend leaving the remaining festival site deserted. Following that they sold out their biggest headline concert to date at the 3 Arena Dublin (12,500 capacity), the show sold out within the first few hours of going on sale.

Finally, off the back of landing a world tour support with Snoop Dogg, they released their debut album ‘FUCK VERSATILE’, on the 21st of May 2021. The album features 13 wittingly titled tracks that straddle the world of EDM, West Coast Hip Hop, Irish Rap, and many other genres. The groundbreaking production from the elusive behind-the-scenes guru Evan Kennedy explores a multitude of genre-blending styles that have never been delivered as we see presented here in this album.

Taking the essence of their west coast influences and incorporating it with their infamous and original Irish style, the album is totally Hip Hop, totally Irish, and totally original.

Their accents allow them to approach Rap with an arsenal of new rhyming patterns and a massive injection of Irish culture to set them apart. The pair undergo open-heart surgery, touching on every topic in need of addressing, pushing art, the final frontier of free expression as far as they can. The album takes us on a journey of triumph, loss, love, pain, joy, and moral challenges, as great art should. The album begins with the ferocious fan favourite ‘Fat Gangster Laugh’, is filled with moments of tranquillity like ‘Man on’, vulnerability in ‘2:22am’, and moments of pulsating rave in ‘Panic Attack’. We even experience an inter- lude from Rap legend Coolio.

In the short time since the album’s release it went straight to no.1 on the Irish iTunes album charts beating Pink, Bob Dylan and Madonna to the top spot on release day, all of whom had new projects released on the same day. The album entered the IRMA Irish Independent album charts at no.3.

Amassing over 150 million streams independently, selling out headline arena shows, and leaving a wake of stunned audiences behind them, things are only beginning for Versatile.