WATCH/EMBED: ROLLING STONES VIDEO
South London rapper Loski has shared new single and video ‘Rolling Stones’, which is out now via Since ‘93 and follows recent track ‘P.U.G’.
‘Rolling Stones’ sees Loski continue to showcase his razor-sharp rap flow and the track is matched with a fast-paced video directed by Toxic that is a seamless accompaniment. The video can be watched here.
21-year-old Loski released his acclaimed debut album ‘Music, Trial and Trauma: A Drill Story’ last year, which saw him break the stereotypical narrative of drill with a thoughtful and thought-provoking album that displays maturity beyond his years. Divided into three parts, ‘Music, Trial and Trauma’ takes the listener on a journey of understanding and enlightenment discussing his life past, present and future. The album is currently nominated for ‘Best Album’ at the GRM Rated Awards taking place later this month.
About Loski:
Every area has a top boy – an influence that the local kids look toward as an inspiration, a source of power, a king. In the South London district of Kennington, that star is a MC called Loski. An affiliate of the young and celebrated Harlem Spartans crew – Loski broke out in 2018 and gifted fans with the long-awaited and highly anticipated debut solo mixtape ‘Call Me Loose’. In 2019, Loski returned with sophomore project ‘Mad Move’ – which charted Top 40. In November 2020, he released an extremely special and thought-provoking project with his debut album.
It’s easy to write off Loski’s life as one we’ve heard told before; county lines, gangs, guns, prison. But this is his life, the life of Jyrelle O’Connor who grew up young and poor on a brutal South London estate in Kennington. It was around the age of 16 that Loski found himself drawn to music by a desire to put his area on the rap map.
His ascent through the ranks was rapid; people were drawn to his authenticity, his wordplay and his deceptively skippy flow on tracks such as Forrest Gump and No Cap. His debut album is loosely inspired by two iconic albums – Dizzee Rascal’s 2003 Mercury Prize winning Boy In Da Corner and Giggs’ classic rap debut Walk In Da Park (2008) – two bodies of work that defined a genre and a generation: grime in the former and UK rap in the case of the latter. Music, Trial and Trauma: A Drill Story is the album to define drill, as Loski lives up to his title of Top Boy of Drill.
At the heart of everything is Loski and his innate ability to tell stories in a completely unique way. Loski has the opportunity to move the genre of drill forward, showing it to be a music of growth, depth and possibility – and that’s a metaphor for his own life too. Loski is at the forefront of change, both for himself, drill music and kids like him that come from nothing desperate to be something. Loski has returned to pick up where he left off and reclaim his position as Drill’s number one.
