Peckham's grime star keeps it conversational without sacrificing his grit.
Over Giggs
Biografie van artiest
Pioneering UK rapper Giggs endured years of police interference and media censorship before finally scoring five Top 10 UK R&B hits and a powerful Drake cosign.
ā¢ Before rap, Giggs was a local DJ who ran his own radio station, Spare No One FM. By 2005, he had begun making his own music.
ā¢ In the years that followed, Giggs scored his earliest underground hits, such as the 2007 British rap classic āTalkinā da Hardest,ā a freestyle over Atlanta rapper Stat Quoās āHere We Go.ā
ā¢ Giggsā debut album, Walk in Da Park, arrived in 2008. Although radio and TV refused to play it, the album went Top 10 on the UK R&B charts and helped Giggs win a BET Award for Best UK Act.
ā¢ His 2010 album Let āEm āAve It yielded two Top 20 UK R&B singles: āLook What the Cat Dragged Inā and āDonāt Go There,ā featuring B.o.B.
ā¢ Giggs reached No. 2 on the UK pop albums chart with 2016ās Landlord, featuring the platinum single āLock Doh.ā
ā¢ He appeared twice on Drakeās 2017 More Life album. Both songsāāNo Long Talkā and āKMTāāwent Top 20 in the UK.
ā¢ His 2017 Wamp 2 Dem mixtapeāa message to American hip-hop fans who donāt take UK rappers seriouslyāpositioned him to win his first MOBO Award for Best Hip-Hop Act.
ā¢ Featuring guests like Jadakiss, Lil Yachty, and French Montana, 2019ās BIG BADā¦ became Giggsā second straight album to crack the UK Top 10.