Clavish: Rap Game Awful review – beautifully delivered ambivalence | Rap
“I don’t care about being in the charts,” offers Clavish towards the end of this epic, 28-track mixtape. “But if I am, I’m thankful,” he quickly counters. You don’t sign to the world’s largest record company by accident, though, and the north London rapper has been carefully nurtured for success over the past two years, along the lines of billion-stream, award-winning mentors Dave and Stormzy. Now that UK rap has fully flowered into a wide range of popular styles and personalities, there’s room for a truculent,…