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At the end of last month, a series of cryptic messages appeared on electronic billboards in east London. “With da Burna. Boy you know I’m masculine,” read one. “I made a comeback as a villain & made a movie so sit back & get the Popcaan my killy,” read another. These turned out to be advance publicity for Beautiful and Brutal Yard (BABY), their announcement of the album’s guest features forming part of a lengthy, mysterious promotional campaign.Everyone they were aimed at seemed to know straight away who they…

Inflate the unicorn, charge the vape, put this year’s iteration of alcopop on ice and set your fingers to gun: the song of the summer has arrived.In a music and media industry in need of catchy frameworks (guilty), defining the season’s banger has become a yearly pastime, but 2023 was starting to feel a bit nervy. Pundits have been reaching for tracks such as Calvin Harris’s Miracle, Fifty Fifty’s Cupid and PinkPantheress’s Boy’s a Liar, which, while all excellent, were released in the depths of winter and thus can never…