start time, followed by a five-hour drive down from Leeds this morning, everyone is in good spirits. The place smells as old as it looks and having entered the main hall which has been recently refurbished with red-cushioned booths dotted around, a pool table and stage complete with tinsel effect backdrop spelling out MOTH, we’re greeted by DJ Green Slime, busy wrapping a spliff and The Mind or Ziggy tapping away at his MacBook whilst taking advantage of the WiFi and charging opportunity.Ĭonsidering the 6a.m. First order of the day is a photoshoot with CRACK magazine at MOTH Club - originally a members club for military veterans - it’s now one of those trendy nightspots tucked away in a back street. His sophomore full-length, Pieces of a Man, arrived in 2018 and included the single "Smoking Song," featuring Toronto instrumental group BadBadNotGood.The squad is delayed getting to the first promo stop, arriving around noon over in Hackney, East London. That LP arrived in late 2016 and debuted at number nine on the R&B/hip-hop chart. Jenkins signed to Cinematic Music Group in 2015, releasing an EP titled Wave in August while working on his official full-length debut, The Healing Component. This led to a support slot on a fall 2014 tour with Method Man, Redman, and Cypress Hill's B Real, followed by tours with Kirk Knight, Joey Bada$$, and STWO in 2015. Trees & Truths, an ambitious 17-track mixtape filled with biblical imagery and demonstrating Jenkins' remarkable growth as a lyricist, appeared in April of 2013 and significantly raised his profile within the Chicago rap community, and later in the year Jenkins collaborated with Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa on a single called "Cross Roads." Jenkins received national attention for The Water, his 2014 mixtape that featured guest appearances by Statik Selektah and Joey Bada$$. Affiliated with hip-hop crew Free Nation, Jenkins began releasing online mixtapes in 2012, starting with The Mickstape in January and followed by The Pursuit of HappyNess: The Story of Mickalascage in August. Born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1991 and raised on the South Side of Chicago, MC/poet Mick Jenkins (whose real first name is Jayson) made an impact in the early 2010s' Chicago hip-hop scene with his socially conscious, intelligent lyrics and tough yet unforced delivery over acid jazz-influenced backing tracks.
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