As chapters leap from region to region, trailing three distinct musical acts through boom and bust, Ekpoudom expertly braids rigorously researched historical context (Windrush, Grenfell, So Solid Crew’s emergence) with the kind of characterful, richly textured street vignettes that The Wire’s David Simon would be proud of. Phil “Traxx” Davies, founding member of genre-blurring Newport collective Astroid Boys, makes an epiphanic trip to his native Cyprus; Despa, a former drug dealer turned music mogul, fields business calls at a Birmingham climbing centre. And then there is the story of Blaine “Cadet” Johnson — the beloved, Gypsy Hill-raised MC whose untimely death in 2019 left a deep scar on the community and is recounted here with affecting, lump-in-the-throat clarity.
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