Within months of the album's release, John Knight of Southern Record Distributors (SRD) invited The 57th Dynasty to join SRD's roster. However it wasn't until BBC Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood began championing their music that the group catapulted into the national spotlight. Recognized as a landmark album, its singles "Lil Bro," "Love of Hip Hop," "Still I Rise," and "Boro 6" were mainstays on underground pirate radio stations. With no major label backing, the group sold CDs on street corners and out of their cars. The 57th Dynasty first gained acclaim with their independent debut album The Spoken Word. The group toured both nationally and internationally alongside Eminem, Outkast, DMX, The Roots, Wu-Tang, Common, The Lox, Sean Paul, D12, The Liks, Eve, Jurassic 5, Slum Village, Roni Size, Roots Manuva, Rodney P, Ty, Blak Twang, Klashnekoff, Mark B & Blade and more.
The group is now identified with the youthful and rebellious countercultures of hip hop and grime. They were at first noted for their infamous hometown of Brixton just as much as much as for their music. The 57th Dynasty were among the vanguard of the British urban music movement of acts that became popular internationally during the early to mid-2000s. NME once described the group's live performance as "a holy chaos with hot-lead hip-hop at its core." The 57th Dynasty's original musical style was a mixture of hip hop, bashment, jungle, jazz and spoken word components commonly associated with an early form of grime.
The group has collaborated on recordings and live shows with a wide variety of artists in many musical genres. They have been compared favorably to the Wu-Tang Clan. Through their indie imprint, FAS FWD Entertainments LTD, the group independently manufactured, produced and distributed music that included: one mixtape, two studio albums, and several EPs, dubplates, and singles. This eight-man collective, described by Rago Magazine as a "super group," won Best UK Hip Hop Act at the UK Hip Hop Awards and was nominated for both MOBO and Urban Music Awards. The band was active from 1997 to 2003, then re-formed in 2014 by its two founding members, Charlie "Parker" Bucknall and Marcus "Paradise" Dawes. The 57th Dynasty (often known as 57 Dynasty) is a British hip hop group from Brixton, London. Hip hop, ragga, grime, jazz rap, alternative hip hop, folk rap
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