Growing up as I did, I rarely thought about myself as British. My first few years on Earth were spent in south London but then my parents decided to move their young family to Jamaica at the start of the 1990s. It is in capital city Kingston and green and wet Portland that my …
This response from SOL’s The Therapist opened my eyes to a different side of being a Yaad Rapper too. I’ve never thought of it from the POV that Jamaican rappers may have been more exposed to hip hop far earlier or more than reggae. The point about it not being relatable since dancehall is “the voice of the ghetto” and not …