NOVELIST

The cerebral south London storyteller

My whole life has been about grime. Every single day.’ With a didactic intelligence, an insatiable curiosity and an innate talent for the contruction of both bars and beats, 21-year-old Kojo Kankam is quite unlike anyone else you’ve ever met. Kankam made his first recording aged six in his grime-loving uncle’s home studio, and at 12 – keenly aware of the social and political issues in his south London community – successfully applied to become Deputy Young Mayor of Lewisham. As his love for grime deepened he entwined the two worlds to become, of sorts, a voice of the people, bestowing upon himself the mantle of Novelist – ‘I like to tell stories, I’m a storyteller’. His energy quickly caught the attention of Wiley and Skepta and by the time…

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