Melroze on Northend, discipline and building towards a Scottish tour

Northend landed at #1 on the first SHHC SoundCloud chart.

4AM with Sherlock also reached the Top 10.

For Melroze, both placements sit inside a much bigger plan built around consistency.

“I’m Melroze, a Scottish rap artist covering a wide range of different styles within hip-hop music and pushing a strong Scottish accent with it,” he says.

He describes the momentum he has built so far as a byproduct of creativity and discipline.

Seeing Northend at the top of the first SHHC SoundCloud chart felt like confirmation that the work was moving in the right direction.

“By seeing this I knew it was a step in the right direction — almost like a nod to approve I’m on the correct path to getting a #1 in the UK charts.”

Northend, brought back to Glasgow

The original idea behind Northend was wider than Glasgow.

Melroze had been thinking about the growing success of artists from northern England and wanted to make a track that could connect with that wider northern movement while bringing Scotland into the picture.

“Originally I wanted to write a song about the north because there has been a huge shift in the UK music scene over recent years with a lot of success with northern artists,” he says.

The chorus had been written for a while, but he had not found the right beat for it.

That changed while he was looking for instrumentals for a different project.

“I came across the instrumental by chance one day as I was looking for beats for a different project and all of a sudden the chorus popped back into my mind, so I wrote the rest of the song that day.”

Once the beat was there, the idea narrowed into something more personal.

Melroze is from the north end of Glasgow, and the track started to make more sense as a record about his own roots rather than a broader statement about the whole north.

“Northend fit the beat so much better, and also I am from the north end of Glasgow, so instead of representing for the whole north I decided to narrow it down and bring it back home to my roots.”

He kept that focus in mind while writing the verses, turning the track into a direct representation of the part of Glasgow he comes from.

Sherlock and 4AM

Melroze’s other appearance in the first SHHC SoundCloud Top 10 came through 4AM with Sherlock.

The connection between the two artists goes back well before either of them started releasing music.

“Me and Sherlock have always worked together from the start of both of us releasing music,” Melroze says.

“We were good friends before we made music and still are today. Every time I have a project I always contact him to be a part of it.”

4AM came from Melroze’s 2025 album Temper.

The album was otherwise a solo project, with Sherlock appearing on its one collaborative track.

That makes the record a continuation of a relationship that has been there from the beginning rather than a one-off feature.

New music every fortnight

The immediate plan is simple: keep releasing.

Melroze says he intends to continue putting out a new song every second Friday and supporting each release with regular reels and promotional content.

“Every second week on the Friday I will continue to release another song and keep the momentum going until I feel that I’ve reached a point of success where I can take my foot off the gas and focus on big projects and music videos.”

For now, that also means keeping the focus firmly on solo work.

“I have no interest in doing collabs at this moment and am 100% focused on doing my own thing solo and continuing to master my craft more and more in the process.”

Live shows are still part of the picture, but Melroze sees them as another area where the longer-term goal depends on first building the audience.

He says he is doing selected shows “to keep the tools sharp”, with the eventual target being a Scottish tour.

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For an artist talking openly about discipline, the strategy is consistent.

Northend reaching #1 gives Melroze an early marker of progress, but he is treating it as part of the route rather than the destination.

For now, it is all systems go: another release every fortnight, more work on the craft and a bigger audience to build.