“Hello! MC Hammersmith here. I am thrilled and delighted to be touring my improvised rap show across the UK. I can't wait to hear your suggestions, turn them into freestyle rap tracks live onstage, and rave loudly with audiences across the country! Feel free to challenge me. Throw me stupidly long words. Suggest impossibly complicated things to rap about. I never feel any challenge is too difficult, because my private school upbringing instilled me with reckless and entirely misplaced self-confidence. Brap brap brap! Sorry.”
MC Hammersmith (a.k.a. Will Naameh) was born to an English mother and a Syrian father. He attended an all-male, middle class private school in Hammersmith. After escaping this, he took up improv classes and started performing freestyle rap comedy. Although technically mixed race, his middle class English accent and pale skin tone means he has always passed for white. This, combined with his awkward personality, made for the perfect framing device to draw comedy from his hop hop performances.
“Hammersmith marries a clearly well-oiled show structure with the randomised chaos that ensues at the hands of improv perfectly to create a constantly entertaining hour of comedy that has the audience with their hands raised, shouting out and in stitches the whole way.” VOICE MAG *****
He has a Master's degree in Linguistics, specializing in phonology, from the University of Edinburgh. He was studying at the same time he started rapping. His Linguistics expertise helped him become a full-time freestyle rapper, as he combined his love of hip hop with his academic studies into the mechanics of rhyming.
“is a delightful hour of freestyle rapping that will leave you in awe of his skills and clapping along to his sharp and hilarious raps. Brilliant and quick on his feet, Naameh performs one of the most impressive shows that can be found at the Fringe” BROADWAY WORLD ****