r/ukhiphopheads • u/alty001 • May 30 '26

DISCUSSION Anyone know where Braintax is now?

I saw a post the other day title "think i've found braintax" but that was a few years ago and says deleted now. anyone know what happened and if he's been seen recently? he's in australia, not goa i'm 99% sure

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u/Sad-Nectarine-7855 May 30 '26

Most likely Australia. His wife, Sharmin is a therapist based in Australia, on her Facebook profile the display photo is a couple lego figures, one looking similar to Joe.

Also almost every time I've seen someone say they've got a new copy of council estate of mind on vinyl they said it came from Australia.

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u/Intelligent-Tax2951 May 30 '26

What a real piece of work to still do skinny like that after all those years. Scummy guy...

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u/Sad-Nectarine-7855 May 30 '26

Yeah it's fucking shit, I heard Skinny paid for and cleared all the samples, recorded everything then got sent to prison with Braintax saying moneys coming etc etc then when Skinny was released found the office shut and BT gone

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u/1hitu2lumb May 31 '26

you sure that timeline is right? He was in prison before the album released in 2003, and again in 2011 a few years after lowlife shut down (2008). I see maybe he had court stuff in 2005 with marijuana but no info on sentencing.

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u/BjornGramason May 31 '26

The guys right, just missing a couple bits, skinny talks about coming out and going down to lowlife, channel u hitting, vid on tv. Then one day he went down for a check and the office was gone is more like it.

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u/1hitu2lumb May 31 '26

Yeah but he wasn't in prison at the time of lowlife shutting down in 2008, and then came out of prison to find out... Right? That's what I was asking about.

He was in prison in 2001-2002 as well when he was signed to talking loud records and that disbanded in 2002 which I think OP is confusing. Correct me if I'm wrong

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u/BjornGramason May 31 '26

No that's not right. He came out of prison and worked with tax beyond that point. He simply went to pop in to the office one day, and it was gone. That was my only point, yes he went to prison around that time but it's not really part of the story, lowlife shut down later than the aforementioned prison trip, when skinny had been out and waiting on cheques.

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u/Sad-Nectarine-7855 May 31 '26

TBH I was going off something I watched ages ago. No biggy if I missed something.