Slowthai
(Picture: Getty Images)Slowthai confirmed his still-fresh status as a chart-topping pop star with his supremely confident performance at the first of two back-to-back nights in Brixton, the Northampton rapper’s first full London headline show since his second album, Tyron, hit the Number One slot last year. He even thanked the audience for helping to make his recent house purchase possible.
Born Tyron Kaymone Frampton, the 27-year-old grime-punk MC spent most of this booming, fast-moving set perched atop a spectacular stage shaped like a triangular rooftop, a simple but powerful design framed by towering white walls that served as video screens. Fire cannons blazed throughout the evening, lending an edge of heavy metal melodrama to more cinematic tracks such as Mazza and Psycho, the later built around a screeching string loop that cleverly referenced Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller of the same name. Performing the entire set alone, aside from a couple of brief vocal cameos, was a commanding gesture in the spirit of Drake, Kanye and Kendrick Lamar. Slowthai is playing in the Premier League now.
