On Borderline, the second track on Alfa Mist’s fifth album, the multi-instrumentalist and MC succinctly decries the unfair assumptions, oppressive limitations and relentless hardship faced by Black British youth. “Everyday trauma, normalised – three options: music, sport or crime,” he raps in his understated, deadpan flow over an ambling beat and soporifically twinkly synths that bely his lyrical scorn.
