"Super chilled conscious rap through the eyes of a New Yorker in London." ~ NME

"A gem that will leave you all the more eager to hear what’s next." ~ The Vinyl Factory

Goya Gumbani moved with his family from New York to London when he was a teenager, but he still sounds like an MC straight out of Brooklyn. His lax rap flows will win over any East Coast boom-bap fan, oozing a serene calm rather than adhering to toxic macho stereotypes. A decade of collaborations in his new UK home inspired a back-to-back stream of EPs in 2020 with South London beatmakers Rago Foot and Kiina. The result is an elegant crossover into SE1’s modern jazz community that takes musical inspiration from both sides of the pond. As featured in NME’s 100 tips for 2021.

yaya bey

Enigmatic, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter, Yaya Bey, is a multi-hyphenate artist who “effortlessly mingles the personal and political with enthralling freshness,” as described by Pitchfork. Bey’s most recent EP, The Things I Can’t Take With Me (2021) was met with critical praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Noisey, FADER, Harper’s Bazaar and more. As a multidisciplinary artist, Yaya has completed multiple fine art residencies with the MoCADA Museum in Brooklyn, NY where she curated programs focused on the Black woman experience, a theme that is intrinsic to her musical output. Yaya is currently working on her next creative endeavor, a full length album and short film set to release next year.

Sophia Harari, from their bio:
I am a writer and musician creating content surrounding identity and self-expression. By doing so I engage in dialogues surrounding perspective, lineage and the marginalised experience.
Eclecticism and Intersectionality are essential to my work. Through poetry, essays, modelling, music and journalism I attempt to explore the same story, my story, using various methods of storytelling.
A result of diversified mediums is diversified understanding.

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