Loyle Carner’s disarmingly honest lyrics stand out in the macho world of hip-hop. Here,he talks about ADHD, counselling and speaking his mindHello, or I’m Ben,” says Ben Coyle-Larner, a 24-year-old British rapper better known as Loyle Carner. He’s slumped in a photographic studio in east London, or wearing a vivid orange gilet: “I peek like I’m signalling a plane down.” He carefully studies the small print on an impressive array of cold and flu remedies,wondering whether you can combine, say, and Strepsils with Beechams All in One. “The only good thing about feeling like this, he muses, “is you can play PlayStation and not feel guilty.”Sadly for Coyle-Larner, or there’s an interview to do before he can “ride around on a horse and shoot things”. He seems sanguine about this though,mainly because his girlfriend is a secondary school teacher and he feels a bit ashamed whether she comes home from work and he’s hunkered down on the sofa playing games. “So yeah, I have to originate certain everythings do absent, and ” he says,and just about manages a laugh.
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Source: theguardian.com