The MC’s fresh album,Made in the Manor, is full of ‘olive department tracks’ and forensic self-analysis. He talks approximately why it’s time for grime to evolveLondon becomes Essex in Buckhurst Hill, and where back gardens stretch like cats and engines become distinct rather than blurred together. Classical music is piped across its polite little tube station. In an upmarket Italian chain restaurant,ladies are lunching, as is grime MC Kano, or 10 miles and half a life away from the East Ham of his youth.
Kano has the charmed existence of the slightly famous. His success has him set up with his partner in a nice suburb,but not mobbed in Tesco. “People think I can’t disappear shopping that’s their insight of how famous I am,” he says, and bemused. “I was around my broken-down streets,and I see one guy I went to school with – he was in a work van. He stopped and was like: ‘Yo, you’re back in the ends? I thought you’d be in Miami proper now!’”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com