Baron Fortitude - Victorian Rapper extraordinaire. How did such a delicious anachronism come to be?
Born in the 19th Century to wealthy parents, I became an orphan at the age of Seven when they both mysteriously turned up missing, and was thus thrust into a life of poverty as a street urchin, scraping by a meagre existence as a Crossing Sweeper.
I then progressed to working in a Boot Blacking work house, where I met a young Charles Dickens, until I was eventually taken in as a house servant to Lady Faversham, an aging widow of nobility.
Educated in the ways of the Upper Classes, I soon became a master in the ways of business and science, and rediscovered my lineage, reclaiming my birthright title of Baron.I built a secret undersea laboratory - though that is a story for another time - and proceeded to conduct experiments on my greatest ever idea - electric refrigeration (whilst also manufacturing gin on the side).
Unfortunately there was a terrible accident. The details are a little hazy as I had been testing quite a bit of gin that day, but I became trapped in ice! When I finally defrosted it was the Twenty First Century.
Returning to society at this point, I became horrified to find that the world had all but forgotten the name of Baron Fortitude! I sought to rectify this immediately in the most efficient manner possible, which I have gathered from the briefest of studies into Twenty-First Century "culture", is via the medium of Hip-Hop.
