From London, England
Beneficial in case you like Nines, Meek Mill, Potter Payper
Up subsequent Debut mixtape, Rap Recreation Terrible, launched 13 January; touring the UK and Eire in March
Clavish’s arrival on the scene in 2018 was each bit as nonchalant because the north London rapper’s laid-back supply: leaning out the window of a hatchback dropping slick bars over a Migos beat, flicking off lyrics like discarded obligations. The clip solely lasted 40 seconds nevertheless it lit up the web. The monitor that adopted the excitement, referred to as All These Funds, flipped the lens from portrait to panorama as he debuted a bleak, distinctly British counterpoint to Migos’s glitzier tackle entice. Individuals needed extra. However then Clavish clammed up.
He doesn’t discuss a lot. We all know this as a result of he says so on Ain’t Gonna Lie, the biting, mournful nearer from final 12 months’s 2022 EP. His social media pages don’t embrace bios; he doesn’t do interviews (see June’s gliding monitor No Interview); and his “about” part on Spotify, the place he attracts 1.5 million listeners every month, merely reads “Instagram: clavish”. So, if you wish to hear what Clavish has to say, you – as old style because it sounds – must hearken to his music. He trades in glassy, aloof rap tracks, all feverishly obtained, which have are available in a trickle over the previous two years. “Placed on a beat and I’ll say so much,” he continues on Ain’t Gonna Lie.
Clavish: Ain’t Gonna Lie – video
Clavish’s lyrics might be fraught with misdirection. His writing is uncooked and direct, but drenched in double meanings that convert crack rocks to iced-out watches. Sexual intimacy rubs up in opposition to intimate violence. “Dripping” can confer with dressing fashionably, or being stabbed. The tales he tells reveal the typically slender tracts between rap and the entice, and the binding aspirations of those that discover themselves grinding in both. Clavish has turn into a grasp at twisting these threads till there’s stress sufficient to teeter throughout: a strolling, inscrutable, intriguing contradiction.
As his star has risen – he’s picked up Mobo and GRM Every day awards nominations, bagged a Prime 10 hit with D-Block Europe, and offered out a string of 2023 tour dates in current months – he has discovered it tougher to fend off the eye. Whereas capturing a music video in Santorini this summer time, he was captured on digicam being approached by an keen American vacationer requesting an autograph and inspiration for a love letter. Clavish smiled and signed. However, naturally, he didn’t say an excessive amount of.
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