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Kojey Radical review – flexing his musicality big time

Scala, London
The former dancer, poet and illustrator is now fully focused on securing his place as London’s most unique rapper

The word “R.A.D.I.C.A.L.” sits at the back of the stage, each white letter punctuated by a coloured strobe lamp. The moniker chosen by the man born Kwadwo Adu Genfi Amponsah gives him a lot to live up to, but fortunately this emerging London rapper, currently winding up a sold-out UK tour, is a one-off in many ways.

Few of today’s crop of UK wordsmiths started their creative lives at the London College of Fashion studying drawing, but Radical did: he got a first. He recently designed bottles for some high-end tequila brand whose previous visuals have incorporated work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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