Damzz: the North West London rapper’s ascent, with a consistent sound, he describes as intricate and intimate - EP7

12:58ninetyfive:it was very very good yeah uh my time yeah yeah so my second recent rotation is um daniel og is the artist and the song is estate brackets pharrell um and this came out in november um so i'm i'm current pretty got a couple of months off for that i'm pretty i'm pretty in there uh yeah so daniel g i've known for quite a long time to be fair like since like 2016 um where i think is when he first kind of started releasing music um he had like a really good colors video back then which got like at the time was really popular i think got like over a million views and stuff um and yeah i thought he was gonna like completely pop off and and like a lot of people were comparing him to like his style and the way he flowed to like Biggie like he had that kind of nighty style as well like and very like hip-hop adjacent but he's from the UK I think it's from Hackney um yeah randomly stumbled on him again uh recently and then he happened to be releasing a song and this this is this is a big this is probably my favorite song at the moment is a big gym tune gas gas tune which is interesting because all of his earlier songs uh the way the way he raps is quite he's got quite a nice like slow flow um whereas this song is quite it's quite punchy there's a lot of 808s and drums just going hard and that um in terms of his lyricism it's like he's quite simple in terms of lyrics but like to the point and concise so everything's quite hard hitting um and yeah the song's called estate because he's like the hook is like trying to get out of the estate basically in it which is yeah just trying to get out trying to get moving trying to move up in the world so it gets you gets you gas okay um and the song starts with uh like a kid capri who's like a super famous um like new york dj producer um from like the 90s and stuff um it starts with him doing a phrase which is actually sampled from a kendrick lamar uh dam which is like whatever happens on earth stays on earth like that and it's like quite a famous phrase and stuff so when you hear that at the very start i was like this guy is about to go and it's interesting because that still shows he's still got that hip-hop influence yeah actually even though it's like almost like 10 years like um from when he kind of first started um um so yeah man it's just a big big tune it's it's my my favorite song at the moment i'm not gonna lie to you i play anytime i'm about to go to the gym anytime i'm about to get moving or i just need to just pump myself up a bit daniel g estate just gets me going i'm gonna have to check

15:49Damzz:it what um pharrell is in the rackets why is that i don't know i don't know you know i'm really not

15:55ninetyfive:good at listening to lyrics of that so i'm just listening to like the main hook and stuff that's It's not random, isn't it? Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I need to look into this deeper. I should have done a bit of... Oh, no, I was just curious. I'm not too sure.

16:08Damzz:When you said at the beginning it was going to be... You said at the beginning of the track, I thought, oh, is it going to be the Pharrell 4-beat thing?

16:14ninetyfive:No, it's Kid Capri from Kendrick Lamar. Which I was... As soon as I heard that, I was like, what's happening here? And he's done like on social media, done like clips of obviously him outside the States and stuff. But it's all kind of like almost like VHS kind of camcorder style. so i was like oh this is a bit great what's happening here and i saw who it was i was like daniel og i was like i know this artist like what's happening like so yeah man that's my second one daniel og the state big big tuned steppers all right what have you got for me come

16:44Damzz:on we're kind of going in the completely opposite direction now but my number two um is jayden uh me my songs and i okay it's a project um it's a solid r &b album the new r &b

16:58ninetyfive:Prince we're saying isn't it that's what they're saying Usher's co-sign Chris Brown co-sign that's it I mean I thought this was my recent rotation

17:06Damzz:oh sorry sorry sorry god let's give it give it the rundown

17:09ninetyfive:no no no no continue continue

17:11Damzz:um so yeah one of the notes say oh Usher oh 6-6

17:17ninetyfive:bye bye bye I'm getting ahead of myself I'm getting ahead of myself

17:19Damzz:my notes actually do say it's reminiscent of his inspirations Chris Brown and Usher

17:23ninetyfive:oh okay I think he's got he's got a song with Usher so this guy he's jumping the gambo

17:27Damzz:I'm going to dash this from now Sorry, sorry This is a solid project From my man Two songs that I will point out In particular The first one It's probably a track that stood out to me Just because of the catchiness of the melodies really It's called Until I Deserve You

17:47ninetyfive:Okay

17:49Damzz:Are you going to give us a rendition of the Absolutely not Alright, fine Yeah I ain't got the yawning vocals for that one there and then the second one is one that you've mentioned a track called Lullaby which has been out for a minute but recently has just dropped with Usher remix which yeah I mean obviously incredible co-sign at this point for him and as you say points to the fact that yeah he's one of the next up which is interesting because do you know his like history a bit no no no hit me man this guy's about to tell me tell me they're best friends I can't tell me he grew up doing like Disney and stuff and so he's on like the Lion King soundtrack he voiced Simba oh really I believe yeah and so I feel like it's an impressive like graduation to go from that into now being like relatively like certified rising artist in that space yeah yeah yeah because you kind of see it a lot with like the Disney girls solo females going into like the pop space but I feel like R &B is kind of an area where you could quickly get shut down if you're not doing it authentically so fair play to him I think yeah he's doing well the album Top to Bottom is a good listener solid project I haven't

19:11ninetyfive:I haven't listened to the album to be fair so I need to check it out it's decent yeah yeah he's just he's the yeah he's the next up innit he's the next up he's like saving his music videos doing a hell of dancing and that and I was like this is Chris Brown. He's here again. Literally, reincarnated. Chris Brown himself has said he's the next up. So, I mean, can't go wrong with that. He's got, I mean, a lot to live up to now. He's got the two best R &B artists arguably of all time saying like, this is the next guy. So, yeah. Yeah, we'll see, we'll see what comes. I need to listen to the album and yeah, but he's, he's definitely the guy for sure.

19:46ninetyfive:I'm a little bit, I'm a bit of a hater because he's, he's very clean with it. He's very clean. He's very clean. cool um me yeah my third all right cool so my third recent rotation is actually not a throwback tune for once okay so it is it is old it's like six years old now to be fair 2019 yeah seven uh so we're going to west side boogie uh no warning um do you know know about west side than that listen listen to him you tell me bro okay so this is like this song no warning is from his debut album in 2019 everything for sale um and i think it's one of the most slept on like hip-hop albums especially from the west uh like california that's from like compton he's from west side he used to be called just boogie and i think uh boogie with a hoodie um came out and then he changed it to West Side Boogie.

20:50ninetyfive:Oh, I do know. To make the differentiation.

20:52Damzz:What's the album artwork? Do you know?

20:53ninetyfive:It's like the red. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Album's the slappers. Yeah, bro. Very, very slept on album, I feel. I think it did very well when it came out. But yeah, I think it stands the test of time very, very well. I still listen to it now. And the reason I've chosen this was two reasons, actually. So he hasn't released. he had a follow-up album in 2022 that was also very very good but i've forgotten the name now so just ignore that but uh he hasn't released since then basically so this is more of a cry out out to get i get an album i need i need the third album he's like done like he did last year like little snippets of stuff that he's been working on okay um and i think there was like pictures of him saying like yeah third album done already or like this stuff like ages ago yeah so i'm not gonna lie i need something to come i need to need something now it's been a while um uh yeah so that was that was the main reason i i did this but this the second reason and the reason i chose this song in particular no warning is because it has a uk r &b artist on it and i never even realized at the time shea universe universe oh is it is is featured like main feature on this song but because I didn't know of her at the time I was just like I was just like I was like it is what it is isn't it so and yeah I just wanted to give a shout out to her because she's really good like it's understandable while she was on there like vocals are so strong she had an album that came out in 2024 called Love's Letter and yeah just two songs from that quickly I see you you added a couple of songs I'm adding songs as well Yeah, so two songs from Shea Universe's album, Summertime, which I think she did a Colors on, which is a big tune.

22:49ninetyfive:But my favourite on the album is Ebbs and Flows, which is the last song on the album. So yeah, so give that a listen to. I need the West Side album like now and listen to Shea Universe's album from 2024. So that's my... So you've had four? Huh? Four. Yeah. You told me you had three. Well you've had like Five already So relax bro So that's me man That's me So go on That album That album's very good Yes Very good Yeah

23:20Damzz:I was thinking Where the heck Has this guy gone as well Yeah yeah bro

23:25ninetyfive:Is he Because I wonder Did the rebrand like Killed him Nah I don't think so I don't think so I think He's like Yeah His music that he's released Have all done Like pretty well I think he as an artist Delivers like everything you You need really like he's got Like Like lyricism he's very good I think he's signed to Like Eminem's like Shady Records and stuff So he always has like a feature of Eminem And they go off If you can survive on a track With him like lyrically Then you're doing well And he does He also like sings on songs as well which is like nice to have uh and it's like he's always very like vulnerable on songs as well like it's always like a lot of self-reflection yeah a bit a little bit of toxic nature in there because that's natural that's we all got a bit toxic in there and stuff um but yeah it's just like very real and like the music is always very good so uh yeah for me he should be like a lot more popular i think yeah but yeah so that's my three what you said what's your last one all right my last one third and final is tone stiff okay track called fly okay um i don't know this okay

24:44Damzz:yeah this again was sort of staying in yeah the r &b ish lane i guess um yeah okay i came across this by chance to be fair um and yeah heard it through once and you know one of those ones where you hear it and kind of makes your ears prick up because you're like oh melodies are good but vocals are good um and so yeah then i was i was like is it like jack is it a bit like cheesy and stuff yeah right talking about like flying like an eagle and stuff and i was like this feels a bit like well it's fine in my brain i was like this feels like quite like basic because

25:20ninetyfive:eagles obviously fly however have you heard the um the seal tune fly like an eagle You know that tune That's a big seal bro Seal's a big, big tune Shout out to Space Jam For putting that song on

25:37Damzz:I was wondering where we were going with that I was wondering if it was going to be The D-block tune or

25:42ninetyfive:I was just saying

25:44Damzz:Fly Like an Eagle Legit lyrics bro See I like questioned myself I was like is this like But then I was listening to it I guess it's undeniably Just a good song isn't it Yeah And then Yeah listen to it With like different like environments like one on my sonos one of my headphones and then i listened to my headphones like a more intimate experience i was like yo the musicality of this really really good really good like um so what was what genre were you saying what this what's the vibe so it's quite i mean r &b probably does it a bit of a disservice because it's very musical so it's got like some very nice like like stabby keys that lead it but then it goes into some other keys and synth sounds and then the bass line throughout funky it's moving it's moving okay um but yeah check it out if you haven't tone stiff fly just yeah strong strong r &b man tone stiff i mean i like

26:35ninetyfive:to move and groove so i'm gonna have to gonna have to check these guys out so what was it how many people was solo one oh solo okay okay okay yeah all right shout out to tone stiff and that let's go all right should we go to spotlight let's do it let's go all right let's get into it

26:54Damzz:oh it's spotlight it's that time it's your turn right yep so who have we got today we're doing london rapper dams okay okay i hear it we're getting a bit more rappy in that yeah yeah i feel like we haven't really got into the rap scene too tough but it's something that we both listen do quite a lot and it made sense to start in london so yeah that's where we're taking it okay okay so

27:18ninetyfive:from the from the get-go then what we're saying if you give me a one-liner to describe them

27:22Damzz:what we said so dams rapper from northwest london known for his laid back flows real life lyricism over skippy piano beats often with a bit of jazz infusion as well um yeah that's him

27:36ninetyfive:in a nutshell that sounds like a bit of me to be fair it's a bit of me it's a bit of me all right cool so where were you taking us first where are we beginning so he has been on a bit of a run

27:47Damzz:recently to be fair okay um been on a run and culminated um with a nine track project called talk over food that dropped september 2025 yeah um which i guess rounded off a year where he released 19 songs in total which is pretty good going it's busy that's a busy year still he's dropped a couple tracks since then obviously had a couple singles before that as well so it's like only makes sense to sort of delve into a bit of his journey um to journey to now to dissect uh the album a bit and uh yeah just talk a bit about him a bit about the rap um i guess um scene around him and um yeah his story and what's going on and what's to come it sounds good let's go so to start i thought we'll take it back to like his beginning okay so we're gonna start um um a few years ago where he was actually teasing like some more afro tunes um on socials okay so he's teasing a couple afro tunes where you know he raps in quite a low cadence um and then he's some of this was like in the sort of like higher register so some of the more like um yeah just like afro swing afro like sort of fusion tunes um some sort of summary vibes also he had a house tune as well that he was teasing oh i'm pretty sure these lot have not seen the light of day because amongst this, he was also teasing a tune called KB9, which will be many people's introduction to him.

29:15Damzz:Obviously, well, I say obviously, it's not. KB9, a reference to, do you know? No, I don't. I'm surprised. Sorry. Karim Benzema. Oh, obviously. Okay. Obviously, he says. Yeah. French footballer, for those who may not know, um yeah pretty notorious done quite well for royale and a winner in that yeah serious baller serious baller and so alongside this sort of afro tunes and the house tune he then teased this um and obviously staying in theme with football um it got quite a bit of traction on socials and people started making like um edits to it um would be like gold montages or benzema montages and even And Damns himself, like, were post-teasing it using sort of, like, footage of Benzmar himself.

30:06Damzz:So it bubbled away a bit. And I think he started getting, like, recognition of people saying, yo, like, you should probably drop this. It's quite cold. And at a certain point, the Man City account used the sound. Right. And obviously that's got a lot of eyes on it. Obviously this was a few years back. So I think this was, you know, City, like, Prime City. Yeah, yeah. you know, it's always like pretty, pretty damn good. But yeah, they were obviously like pole position these times. And then that obviously catapulted it a bit more. He himself has described his sound as both intricate and intimate.

30:41Damzz:And that's something that he's used, like don't say too much, but when he describes his music, those are two words that he's used multiple times. Yeah. His delivery is quite chill. The beats are quite skippy, but they're also quite, quite chill as well with the sort of piano melodies and stuff. um but there's a lot of a lot of lyricism and a lot of stuff that people can take away um from what he's saying um and yeah he i think his main thing is wanting people to just think um and when they're taking stuff from the music and it just be something that people don't just sort of like passively listen to but that people just do engage with and he sort of said whether it be like uplifting and positivity or just general motivation food for thought whatever people want to take from it he just wants people to actually engage with it in that sense because he has sort of said that, you know, his name's Dami Dams.

31:29Damzz:And he sort of said he doesn't really compartmentalise him as an artist and him as a person. He's like, what I rap is, who I am. And therefore you will find me in that, whether it be the highs, the lows, the in-betweens, the thoughtfulness or whatever. So I like that. It's sort of like, where's his heart on his sleeve, albeit not in like a bravado or a loud way.

31:47ninetyfive:Okay. So what year are we saying KB Niners? I'm pretty sure 2023.

31:53Damzz:Okay. I'm pretty sure. okay um let's have a let's have a little little vr vr check yeah so we're saying it's still

32:00ninetyfive:yeah he's still quite like new as an artist yeah the last like few years we're saying

32:06Damzz:so yeah good point in terms of official releases and stuff like that yeah so his his soundcloud

32:11ninetyfive:releases date back 10 years yeah of course soundcloud obviously that's his having a

32:16Damzz:his 4a into yeah and then his spotify releases date back to 2020 but then kv9 was where he really got some traction so really this is why i say like 19 tracks in a year um and nearly 40 tracks in this catalog so far over really a relatively short space of time super impressive yeah 100 the work rate's been really good um just a bit more about him nigerian heritage by london essence um he's from northwest um and you kind of hear various references to that quite a lot in the music similarly his sport football a lot of stuff comes through uh he's got a lot of you know clever lyrical word plays around sport and he sort of um fuses that in quite nicely uh obviously something that works well for him as well and if people come across him with kb9 there's probably also you know an affinity and expectation that he'll continue in that way so similar to aj tracy there's a lot of times where yeah people like him will just include bars about that sort of stuff uh which i personally quite like so long as it's not your sort of classic I was on the wing like flipping so and so and all of these obvious parts so like yeah he's clever with it and he's playful with it and one that if you want to dissect you can probably take more from I'll be honest in doing this research it was a bit trickier he's not a big talker

33:31ninetyfive:okay

33:32Damzz:so we were doing lots of listening and lots of sort of seeing where he sort of popped up here and there but I kind of rate it a lot of the stuff he leaves in the music and puts it there um in fact um what i'll say is something that defo impressed me he's only posted on tiktok eight times in 2025 oh really yeah and bearing in mind that's his biggest audience that's like

33:57ninetyfive:more than double his insta oh that's that's interesting because like sat yeah he's just leaving it in the music then i guess like social media isn't really the main place to find him i guess yeah yeah i mean it's like the opposite to what people were yeah is the norm really yeah yeah yeah yeah it's crazy because to think that that the norm is to be mad on social media as a musical artist instead of just being in the music which he obviously is so it's good it's good to

34:24Damzz:it's good to hear so for me i feel like it's a testament to him having gained a decent enough following a core following on the socials that he has with some of those key releases like kb and another track should have gone nige that we'll talk about as well um that followed that up um and yeah simply he's only posted 24 times on insta as well so like twice a month yeah which 24 sounds may be a lot but then you yeah but you're an artist twice a month is like people tell you twice a day bro yeah exactly i'll say fair play to him he's clearly got like a bit of a cult following and people don't really do rock with him um yeah he's currently as you know at time of recording got like 13k followers on tiktok and just over six on insta okay so to be doing what he's doing with you know what people would describe to a relatively small audience i think is amazing yeah yeah 100 what i did manage to gleam from from my research of this rather private chap uh his favorite albums um are drake take care and kendrick good kid mad city which you know very very solid choices especially for people our age yeah growing up yeah two very very good albums so another thing he did say he said he's always been great at memorizing that this is his journey into music like those two albums he's always been great at memorizing songs and lyrics and so he was like obviously love those albums and like listen to them heaps and then knew every lyric from every

35:47ninetyfive:song i wish i had that skill man i really do it's impressive i don't know like i can listen to a song like every day and i'm still not getting the lyrics i still don't know the lyrics it's really bad um because i would like to sing the lyrics to people i'd like to people to hear my rendition i hear a lot of your rendition yeah yeah but it's more just slurs and gibberish at the moment when you're telling me like the seal song i probably i probably do know yeah yeah yeah you do you 100 % do you 100 % do it's interesting to see how like different people listen to music yeah exactly um exactly because yeah as a rapper i guess you're always like in that bag just hearing like different like wordplay or different the way like people like line up verses and stuff like that and you're thinking oh can i use that and stuff or whatever um whereas me i'm just like

36:37Damzz:just just like oh yeah that's good that's good speaking to me the aways are speakers yeah yeah exactly but yeah i guess he the the point here being that he listened to the point where he could interchange like drake or kendrick's lyrics with his own lyrics and so he would then just start that was his in like real like introduction to is like basically freestyling over instrumentals of some of his favorite tunes just because he knew the pockets and would just have fun with it that way um and then said he started rapping over dj mustard beats which is obviously quite interesting because it's like very different to the sound that he now he now rapped in but i guess definitely like a starting point um when you're sort of growing up is like finding like tight beats or instrumentals and being like cool where do i where do i go um and now yeah i guess he sort of established his own what some might describe as like a jazz rap type sound yeah um with the

37:33ninetyfive:sort of those sweet melodies well i think actually that actually does tie in with what you just said in terms of the Drake, Kendrick and the mustard, because he is very good at like riding on beats and finding pockets and stuff. And like, that's actually quite hard to do in like jazzy samples, I feel, because it's not as like obviously rhythmic, I guess. Yeah, true, true. So finding those pockets can be quite difficult. And yeah, he does it really well. So I guess that's because that's what he was doing at such an early stage that he probably finds it, easy to do that now so yeah that's interesting and so yeah i guess that's a bit of a bit of the

38:14Damzz:sort of early story around his sort of introduction to it and then as i said september 25 he dropped the nine track project talk over food um which followed an ep in 2024 called get home safe which he also had like a deluxe version too with a couple extra tracks and then he also had an ep called in the sky in 2022 um and between all of these he just dropped a bunch of singles okay so

38:38ninetyfive:Sorry, let me get my head around this. That's a lot of songs. That's a lot of songs. So we're saying the nine track project, is that an album or EP as well? I think he's just calling these projects. Oh, so there's no debut album yet, basically. Album's a big word for rappers. I know, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Has he stamped this one as like an album? Or are we saying is it just an EP slash project and stuff? I'm pretty sure he's framed it as project. Yeah. It's, it's, it's difficult. It's difficult. Cause once you say something's an album, like, Oh, he's even said it's an EP.

39:15ninetyfive:Oh, it's an EP. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So yeah. Extended play. Yeah. Yeah. So he's yet to release an album. Um, that's interesting. Okay. Because yeah, as you said, I think the latest tracks that he's released, uh, is in an EP as well, isn't it? Like a mini EP as well. So it's just like a lot, a lot of music. A lot of music, isn't it? A lot of music.

39:36Damzz:As I said, he's released close to 40 tracks, which is heaps.

39:40ninetyfive:I think we were, like, same way we were speaking about Elmin before and saying that he released a lot of music. I think you have to front load it, it feels like. That's like a method that artists do a lot now. Like, you just have to have loads of tracks for people to be able to go through. And then once you've established that, like, true core following, then you can, like, space things out and actually have albums and stuff.

40:02Damzz:Even our recent rotations, when we're talking about, like, like Westside Boogie, for example, or some people where we're like, we don't even know if we've not been checking for them or if they haven't been releasing. You have to stay front and centre and in people's minds and faces, really, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what I rate is that he's doing that with the music versus like necessarily being like, churning out social media content.

40:22ninetyfive:Yeah, I mean, I definitely prefer having more music to social media and stuff. I'm trying not to be on social media too much to get me.

40:28Damzz:Yeah, like I do find it annoying nowadays that I'm discovering a lot of music on social media. I'd rather discover it where it is which is full songs are not on social media

40:38ninetyfive:they're on streaming social media I like to fall upon a song and be like oh what the hell what the hell is this

40:44Damzz:anyway we'll go back to Dam's talking of this longer EP talk over food he says it's about he said it's a journey about London navigating the journey of life the good, bad and the ugly and he has said that the key thing he wants people to take away is that it's okay to share sometimes um he's like not all the time like it doesn't have to be all the time but like sometimes talk in it and this was the only i think the only place i found him post on his own socials like a video of him talking that's not promoting music okay and yeah he's just seen mad chill and funny and stuff um but i like that it's sort of like as i say it's kind of his like i guess social commentary on what yeah and

41:28ninetyfive:what he's living i like the mandem now like thinking about mental health and stuff yeah just being positive vibe because the same like when he was talking about koji radical and his album was very that kind of vibe as well um and yeah it's just nice it's just nice to hear like rappers and stuff like being aware of that and just having like vulnerable projects but just because it's vulnerable doesn't mean it's like like mad soft or whatever and you can still be as hard hitting and um you can still make tunes but it can still be like just very aware like self-aware of things isn't it so i'm here for it i'm here for it same i think it really

42:07Damzz:shows great artistry when you can do that without saying without being like so on the nose with it as well yeah yeah you can not to dress things up but like it's storytelling and i think this is what dams is great at is is storytelling and i guess that's a perfect segue into what is my standout track from the project uh which is called real friends okay um and yeah i feel like i related to it because it kind of it's him speaking about his adolescence and a lot of it's like well there are allusions to like being in school and bonding with guys over football and that yeah which for me was like a lived experience like i was pretty nerdy um in high school like early in high school and that i'm probably throughout but like but um just that period yeah and then it completely changed um but like year seven like i was like so determined i was going to be that flipping best academic guy in the year uh like an absolutely unique um and but thankfully sport was my outlet and way of making friends really yeah um and it's obviously such a great like bonding thing so he speaks a bit about that and so to me that kind of felt a bit nostalgic in a way um and yeah i thought the storytelling was really good also if you're a fan reminiscent of knucks and alpha house yeah and the way that he sort of, I guess, story tells on that.

43:21Damzz:So for me, yeah, that was a standout. But yeah, the project overall is very solid. As I say, got nearly 40 tracks out to date. And then sort of following that EP in November, he released a four track EP, which he said is kind of like a thank you to the fans and the followers, which, yeah, I thought was very cool. and that one there was called recency bias okay um and he's got a track on this recency bias ep called legacy archetype legacy spelled as in gym legacy gym legacy yeah so for me that was interesting one because it was like a nod to jim's sound um i really demonstrated dams's

44:04ninetyfive:versatility yeah yeah yeah i um when we when you told me that we're going to do dams i did like do a little quick quick listen to like if there's anything recent that came out um and i did fall up on that track and i was like uh i saw yeah i saw how it was spelled i was like is that just a coincidence and i clicked it i was like okay okay he's giving him a little shout out and he's like yeah it's just like very yeah in that pocket and like executed very well very well so like he's got that range if he if he needs to um and i think uh in terms of his sound there are like very like i guess jazz heavy like production sounds but then sometimes he go he does go like leans a bit more into drill as well i feel as well um which which he does well um but i'm always trying to get to the jazz side i don't know but you you can you can hear that he does have

44:58Damzz:have that range in that pocket um which is good and so you mentioned you mentioned like the drill side of things yeah so in February and March of 2025 he supported Blanco on Blanco's headline tour okay that makes a lot of sense Blanco obviously solo artist but formerly in drill group Harlem Spartans I didn't even know that I don't listen to Blanco

45:21ninetyfive:yeah that's obviously not your I listen to Blanco though but I don't know obviously I'm not usually into this UK rap stuff this guy there's garbage no it's not garbage obviously but no I don't I didn't really usually listen to it But I know Blanco, again, because he's another artist that has, like, a very particular sound. Yeah, they're very, yeah. Blanco's got a very particular style of beat that's, like, drill, but, like, influenced by, like, Brazilian stuff. He does, like, the football references as well. It's made him super popular. But I like all that type of stuff. Yeah, yeah. So when he puts stuff out, I'm like, yeah, I'm him, bro.

45:57ninetyfive:And the same with Dan. So when he puts stuff out, I'm like, yeah, that makes sense. This is for me. this is for like the person that doesn't want to be like this nitty gritty like drill stuff yeah yeah it's trying to do like good vibes but you can still and you still have the space to rap

46:11Damzz:about whatever you want so i hear it yeah no 100 but that for me was like the most fitting support

46:16ninetyfive:act have they got a song together no no no that's interesting okay but yeah full circle moment for

46:21Damzz:dams because he was saying like he used to maybe he's younger than we thought but he was saying he used to listen to like blanco in school and that and so now he's like going and supporting him on tour which is big that's big very very sick you mentioned do they have a song no he hasn't collaborated much yeah because that you it's annoying because you've mentioned the two artists

46:40ninetyfive:that i would say makes sense for him to collaborate with is blank or nuts or like benna or something so like yeah because there's songs in the album um i think like in the album in the ep like back to basics which is very very knucks adjacent i would say i'm like i could imagine them to being on this song there's a lot a lot of songs where there's like saxophones in the background i've checked the song credits yeah it's been a bit yeah i was like is that better what's going on so yeah they're the two um they're the two three artists that i would i would say especially blanco um yeah it's got it's obviously drill beats in terms of like the percussions and stuff but it's not drill in terms of like the simps and the like the darkness yeah yeah it's like that ballet funk type yeah yeah exactly so and i think dams could could do that basically

47:36Damzz:easy easy yes he could definitely be like yeah it would be brilliant yeah so like i i i assume that's gonna happen at some point i mean yeah because even as i say there was it wasn't much that he was saying but there was one interview that i saw where they were speaking about where

47:51ninetyfive:he was speaking about the Blanco set up and he was like, yeah,

47:55Damzz:like it was so cool to be able to just spend time with him. And he's like, we would talk about football, talk about life. Like it's not just, you know, there's like rapport beyond music in it. I feel like that's where the best collaborations come from, where you actually build a rapport with someone rather than just this person's hot or they would sound sick on the track. So hopefully there's something cooking with them a lot. Yeah, 100%. But two people he has collaborated with. So Rushy is one of them. Yeah

48:20ninetyfive:Actually I'm a Rushie fan Yeah Yeah Is Rushie pressure Is that Rushie Yeah I've been slowly Getting into Like some UK stuff Like Gym music And like Rushie's Rushie's up there for me He's good for that He's good for that He's up there for me So So yeah Is that in the latest EP Yeah Okay Okay I must have heard it But I can't remember Yeah I'm glad you're a fan of him Come on Alright Who's the second And then the second one is Sam Rex. Okay. Yeah. Sam Rex. It's making sense. Again, Sam Rex is someone that I like as well. The type of like beat selection that these men use, I am about a hundred percent.

49:02ninetyfive:So yeah, we need more, more of it. I'm, I'm happy with it.

49:09Damzz:So yeah, that was on Sam's project recce. Okay. So nice to see you being shouted for other stuff as well. Cause I think he's talented. So yeah. Yeah. for fans yeah i would say for fans of as we said knucks blanco venner sam rex and i'd probably add saint into that into that little pocket yeah pocket of people as well yeah yeah i would say

49:31ninetyfive:do you know um say ming is that his name say again say ming s-a-i-m-i-n-g no i don't think so he's cold as well bro you go yeah yeah bro i'm in this i'm in this bag now like look at you yeah yeah but he's he's very very cold as well and again like drill jazz drill like um like interesting like latin samples sometimes um yeah and he's yeah he's collaborated with quite a few good artists as well so say i think it's i think it's like sensei ming in it so um but yeah so he's that I would like to see them collaborate with as well

50:13Damzz:or like similar styles as well nice I had a couple others as well so I said Emil okay

50:19ninetyfive:as well which

50:20Damzz:you know feels like a bit of a cheat code but yeah Jordi another man who loves lyrics and is just a bit of a bars man I feel like that would be interesting and I feel like a lot of his productions super interesting yeah so I'd be interested to hear Dam's go into his world a bit and do something on some of more of his like rap type beats yeah Jordy's super slapped on I feel 100 100 it's disappointing and then also some female artists I'd like to hear like him build out like a song with like some hooks or some BVs and just see how like his vocal and the musicality goes together I don't have any one specifically in mind but I think that could be interesting yeah yeah

51:00ninetyfive:100 % alright question okay what have we got

51:04Damzz:easy one well I say easy one it's a direct question okay

51:08ninetyfive:what's your favorite damn song uh favorite damn song is probably the song that um first i first came across which was should have gone nige um yeah i was just the production i was very much about yeah for me like if the production's good and then you can ride that beat i don't even care what you're saying so like he was going in on it and i was like yeah like it's goes together very well. And yeah, so that's probably my, that's probably my favourite song. And it's probably one of his more popular songs, right? Yeah. Yeah.

51:47Damzz:Yeah. That was my first introduction to him as well. Really?

51:50ninetyfive:So you weren't on the KB9? No, I wasn't. I wasn't. Name was I? No, I wasn't. The thing is, I knew of the name Dams previously, but I didn't really, I just assumed like, so there's probably some drill artist that I'm not even trying to listen to. Right, right, right. So I wasn't even trying to check for him. but then he came onto my spotify and then i was like oh damn this is this is actually good

52:12Damzz:so yeah yeah another question in a similar vein um it might be the same answer but what um what is one song from him that you'd list that you'd recommend for someone who hasn't checked him out

52:22ninetyfive:i would go either the back to basics that i mentioned or london calling which i think is the first song on the ep i think um so yeah that they're the two for me what are you saying okay

52:37Damzz:nice for me um i would recommend a song called council housing um someone who hasn't listened to him before uh the reason being um yeah it's a skippy beat and he's delivering an equally skippy flow over it i think as you were saying the wordplay is clever what song did i say what was

52:55ninetyfive:my second song london cooling yeah maybe i think that's what's council housing i was thinking of a different song that's why i'm saying it's council housing that's the first song of the ep that council housing right i believe so yeah yeah i believe so sorry sorry i don't know where my head was i don't know where my head was it's council housing yeah yeah yeah you're right it is that's what it is yeah um and as you said like wordplay skippy b okay it's making yeah that's why the things that you're saying the way you're describing it i was like that's the same this is sounded i don't know why it's london called i don't know why that was in my head yeah council housing but

53:31Damzz:yeah it's got like again the nice piano sounds the nice sax in there as well and so for me this like is a song of dams is that incorporates all of the elements that he's sort of like known for in the in the best way um so i would definitely recommend that one um and then yeah just again so if no if you haven't listened to him i'd recommend council housing and then yeah again if you haven't listened to him i would describe him in three words as the following introspective okay uh from a lyrical point of view nonchalant in like a sort of like delivery point of view like it's it's laid back in it like if you like sort of hype music the beats kind of get you a bit there but he it's pretty chill um and the third one would be consistent consistent in his release cadence obviously we've seen he churns out a lot but also consistent in the quality that he's put out in his lyricism um and in the sort of the musicality that you can expect from really okay um so yeah those are those are some words that i would say so yeah man that was kind

54:31ninetyfive:of all i had to discuss that's good it's a lot of good stuff a lot of good stuff it's um yeah it's good to again get an artist that's not at the beginning but still like churning out tunes and like building a world and a sound and stuff so yeah it's good to see and you know obviously

54:49Damzz:consistently as well like i think i would say hopefully this is putting quite a few people want him for the first time but you know there's back catalogue there for people to discover like a couple hours of music um and you can guarantee there's going to be more coming as well yeah so high quality great artist northwest london on the map yeah shout out to dabs shout him out cool

55:10ninetyfive:all right we'll draw to a close there yeah sounds good look forward to what you're going to bring to us next week we'll see we'll see mate we'll see we'll see what i've got i've got in the back pocket mate um but yeah no it's been a good episode and we'll have to check what else next

55:26Damzz:time isn't it cool until next time we've been 95 peace

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