Who is Big Shaq?

If you’ve read this far thinking Big Shaq is the real deal – I hate to burst your bubble. Big Shaq is the genius fictional grime MC dreamt up by British comedian Michael Dapaah. To understand Big Shaq, one must first understand Michael Dapaah.

Michael Dapaah is best known for his YouTube mockumentary SWIL (Somewhere In London), which follows four characters on their journeys to success. One of those characters? You guessed it, Big Shaq.

Like most things in life, Dapaah’s characters weren’t created equal allowing Big Shaq to surpass his peers en route to becoming the comedian’s most popular alter ego and a super start in his own right.

Big Shaq is a character first and foremost, but he’s also a roadman that goes by the aliases MC Quakes and Roadman Shaq. He got his big break on BBC 1Xtra’s Fire in the Booth where Dapaah, as Big Shaq, unleashed his now infamous freestyle on poor host Charlie Sloth featuring lines like, “The girl told me, ‘take of your jacket’ / I said, ‘Babes, mans not hot.’” The rest, as they say, is history.

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