Scroobius Pip
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Scroobius Pip on stage, 2010 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | David Meads |
| Born | 3 August 1981 Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper, spoken-word artist, actor, podcaster |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Speech Development Records, Strange Famous Records, Sunday Best Recordings, Lex Records |
| Website | Official website |
David Peter Meads (born 3 August 1981), known professionally as Scroobius Pip, is an English actor and podcaster as well as a former spoken word poet and hip hop recording artist from Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. He first gained prominence as one half of hip hop duo Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip sparked by their debut single "Thou Shalt Always Kill".
He manages his own record label, Speech Development Records. He hosted the award-winning weekly radio show The Beatdown on XFM in the late 2000s and currently hosts the Distraction Pieces Podcast. In August 2016, he released a book entitled Distraction Pieces.
He appears as French Bill, an assistant to Atticus, in the eight-part historical fiction series Taboo (2017) on BBC One and FX.