'I’m not a token black guy': A day in the life of Big Narstie (and his mum)

Despite his increasingly mainstream profile – a major label album, a Channel 4 show and Ed Sheeran as his daughter’s godfather – the rap star is still a fixture in his Brixton neighbourhood. He took us on a tour‘I’m the kinda guy that wants to get physical / Run up in your house and take all your Sky Digital.” Big Narstie collapses into hysterics after I ask him to recite some lyrics he wrote in his youth. He pauses. “Yeah, OK, it’s fair to sa...

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