Enitan Adepitan, far better known as the rising rapper ENNY, is very clear. “I can never claim to be a political voice,” she tells me. “I can only naturally do what I think is right by me. If that’s what I’m called to do, I’ll do it if it feels natural.”
Not deliberately political perhaps, but her honest, quick-witted rhymes ruminating on identity, politics, and the complexities of consumerism and gentrification - themes traversed on her 2021 debut EP, Under Twenty-Five - have nonetheless led to it repeatedly being labelled “conscious rap” (and for some fans, comparisons with Lauryn Hill) over the two whirlwind years of her recent rise.
