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Flowdan

Flowdan (real name Mark Viera) is a 29 year-old MC from East London. He is one of the founding and longest serving members of the Roll Deep crew, after joining from garage collective Pay As You Go, and is also a part of the collective Cemetary Warriors. Flow Dan is a veteran MC from East London who started as a Jungle MC in the late nineties before starting Roll Deep with Wiley and has become one of the longest serving members.

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Riko Dan

Riko Dan (also Riko, real name Zane Williams) is a grime MC from East London, and a long serving member of grime crew Roll Deep. He is also a part of the collective Cemetary Warriors. He was originally a drum and bass MC, starting at 15 years of age and honing his skills on pirate radio stations such as

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Trim

Trim (real name Javan St. Prix) is a grime MC from Chrisp Street, E14 (Isle of Dogs). He first began MCing with the Bomb Squad around 2002, shortly after he left jail. He soon made a name for himself for his use of wordplay and his individual flow. He was a member of the Roll Deep Crew with fellow East London MCs Wiley, Riko, Breeze, Roachee and Scratchy (whom he attended school with). He eventually left Roll Deep after numerous disagreements with Flowdan.

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Brazen

More than one Brazen around as you would expect. 1. A grime MC from London, associated with Roll Deep .
myspace profile 2. A female three-piece Celtic band based in New Zealand.
NZ Brazen website 3. A Swiss progessive pop-rock band
website 4. An English teenage punk-rock band see here 5. A death-grind band based in Matane, Qc., formed in 1995. They released one demo tape, Nightmare, in 1997. The band has split.
website 6. A house-act which recently made a remix of Toto's Africa.

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Roachee

Roachee is an MC and former member of Roll Deep, having joined the collective in late 2004 although in 2005 Chantelle Fiddy referred to him as a member of Bomb Squad.When he left is uncertain but it was while he was in prison and probably at the same time his cousin Trim left the collective. Like Trim, Roachee is close to Ruff Sqwad members. Roachee is responsible for possibly Roll Deep's most famous grime song When I'm 'Ere. Roachee appears on the opening and closing verses of the song. Although he has relatively few lyrics, Roachee is well liked amongst grime fans for his agressive bars.

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Frisco

Javan "Frisco" Morgan (born December 30, 1982) is a musician and song writer based in North London. He is a member of Boy Better Know and is commonly affiliated with TMT (which consist of Cell 22, Presto & Danny B). Frisco is mainly known for his appearance in the "Private Caller" video which was produced by Skepta in 2003. Since then, Frisco released his first mixtape, (and was the first Grime associated artist to do so) Murda Music Volume 1, followed shortly by volume 2.

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