In a blue Daily Paper bomber jacket, baggy jeans and neon wraparounds, Ray BLK slips into one of The Hoxton Southwark’s swish apartment suites: all Noughties Missy vibes and understated confidence, an opinionated and funny presence from the off.
‘I’ve really been trying to stop listening to LBC,’ she says when I start with an out-of-politeness enquiry about how her taxi ride over here was. ‘It gets you worked up. And then your head is just like anger and anxiety, stress. James O’Brien was talking about the whole issue of Boris Johnson not handing over his phone, wanting to show everything and just lying about it, and Rishi Sunak has taken the judge to court to basically pervert the course of justice. It’s crazy that number one, like no real media is talking about this. And number two, I’m Nigerian: and as a Nigerian, people will often say, like, how corrupt it is. And it is obviously corrupt. But it’s like, this is a global issue…’
