Headie One - Music x Road

Music 5 years ago

Headie One - Music x Road

On his diverse, Technicolor new mixtape, Headie One insists, “They say that I’m the king of drill / I’m doing it all”.

The line crops up on ‘Both’, a track that was playlisted on Radio One and – brilliantly and unexpectedly – samples Ultra Naté’s 1998 dance anthem ‘Free’.

These aren’t necessarily the credentials you’d associate with an artist formerly defined by the drill scene, but the north London rapper is its breakout star, having scored a top 10 smash with the Dave collaboration ’18 Hunna’, a song so assured it could only become a crossover hit.