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Keep It on a Low

single by Zeph Ellis

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ6383011 ↗
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"Keep It on a Low" is a song by English rapper/producer Dot Rotten. The song was first released on 4 November 2011 in the United Kingdom as the lead single from the rapper's debut studio album, Voices in My Head. NME praised the track, describing it as "uplifting, grime-derived pop music in hi-def".

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Live performances

As part of the Radio 1/1Xtra Hull takeover, Rotten performed the tracks "Keep It on a Low" and "Are You Not Entertained" on 28 January – joining DJ Trevor Nelson at Hull University.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Keep It on a Low” as single by Zeph Ellis. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Keep, single and Zeph can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as single by Zeph Ellis. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6383011. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Keep It on a Low” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.