Durrty Goodz

Dwayne Mahorn (born 11 May 1981), better known by his stage name Durrty Goodz, is a British grime MC, rapper and songwriter from London. He is known for his versatility across his tracks with a flow that fuses many styles, from dancehall to reggae to hip-hop and bashment, evoking artists as disparate as Ludacris, Kardinal Offishall and Pharoahe Monch. He is known for his lyricism, flow and wit on the mic.

Career Mahorn was first featured on the Skibadee mixtape 2 Fast 2 Ferocious in 2003 but a year prior, a bootleg mixtape had circulated online entitled It's Real, Vol. 1. He was also featured on many sets on radio stations.

He was signed to Polydor Records in 2005, but left due to a lack of creative control.

He was named Best MC by the London pirate radio station Kool FM, which led to recognition in the London underground music scene, and was signed to Universal Records soon after. Mahorn made appearances on local radio programmes, mixtapes, and 12-inch singles as well. He featured in Logan Sama s radio segment on Kiss 100 London in 2011. labelled Bar Codes.

In 2011, Mahorn featured on an all-star grime single titled "Pull Up 2011" alongside producer Dexplicit and other artists such as Big H, Big Narstie, Dot Rotten, Black the Ripper and Shizzle. In October 2011, he announced that his second album entitled Foundation would be released soon. He also appeared on Fire in the Booth with Charlie Sloth twice that year and did a Fast and Furious freestyle. He also did a freestyle for BBC Radio 1xtra. He released a visuals of "Oi Wot You Lookin At" and "Don't Ask Me".

On 11 March 2013, Mahorn released the free mixtape Young Legend followed by the sequel Young Legend 2 which was released on 31 March 2014 as a free download. Also in 2013, he was featured on M.S.G's mixtape Never Give Up, on "Krispy Kreme" with Logic, Last Resort, Sway, Mighty Moe and Big Frizzle and on "It's Alright" with DJ Ironik and AYO Beatz. He also released "City Rock" with Killa Mosquito under the name DG Da Guru. He was invited to host Lyric Lab with SB.TV and had talks with MCs such as Skibadee and Scruffizer.

On Christmas Day 2014, Mahorn released the mixtape Vintage 3000 for free and released visuals for the song on the EP. In December 2015, he was featured on LinkupSeason with Chip, Swiss, Black the Ripper, Flowdan and Rocks Foe. In 2016, he released "Vision" with L Dot Man. On 8 July 2016, he announced that he would be releasing a new EP titled Not Been Televised which was produced solely by YNR Productions rapper/producer Micall Parknsun. He released the first two tracks from the EP called "BMP" and "Organise" on 24 June 2016. Tru Thoughts announced that Goodz would release Hungry Belly which is a selection of grime standout tracks. This was released on 19 August 2016 alongside early radio support from Tom Ravenscroft of BBC6Music.

In 2017, Mahorn rebranded himself as "OG Rootz" and a collaborative EP with long-time rival Wiley was teased, but as of yet nothing has come to light. Under this new alias, Goodz featured on a song with rock band The Goldborns, as well as in songs with UK veteran TY, and more recently with Rag'n'Bone Man on Jam Baxter's 2018 album "Touching Scenes". For the two latter songs, videos were released onto YouTube.

In 2019, under this new alias, he released videos onto YouTube for the songs "Ackee & Rice", "Scotch Bonnet", "Frontline" and "Babylondon". These new songs all sample roots reggae songs with Goodz rhyming in a versatile ragga flow which he has done from early in his career.

In 2019, he released Bar Codes every week on his YouTube channel Durrty Goodz FM.

Politics In November 2019, Mahorn helped relaunch the Grime4Corbyn campaign to encourage young people to register to vote.

Discography Albums 2010: Born Blessed 2011: Overall 2025: Vanguard

EPs 2007: Axiom 2016: Not Been Televised 2019: Trinity (Free Download)

Mixtapes 2003: It's Real Vol. 1 2004: 2 Fast 2 Ferocious (with Skibadee) 2004: Durrty Whirl 2007: More Street Than The A-Z (hosted by DJ One Samurai) 2009: Ultrasound 2013: Young Legend (Free Download) 2014: Young Legend 2 (Free Download) 2014: Vintage 3000 (Free Download) 2015: Vintage 3000 Vol. 2 (Free Download) 2016: Hungry Belly