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After two great lockdown collaboration albums, the rappers horizons are broadening
By Grant Brydon 21/05/2021
Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘People Say’ drowns out any chance of holding a conversation at The Helm Tattoo & Piercing Shop in Oglethorpe, Georgia, where Frank Walton is waiting patiently for a friend to get inked. Declared “one of the illest MCs” by legendary beat-maker Madlib, the Richmond, Virginia native is known to rap connoisseurs as Fly Anakin – a founding member of the revered Mutant Academy collective.
He steps outside, underdressed for the spring morning, as his friend and collaborator Livingston Matthews, known as Pink Siifu, flashes up on screen beside him. Over the past decade, the charismatic Birmingham, Alabama-born musician has built an incredibly deep, genre-agnostic catalogue. There are more than 50 albums, mixtapes and EPs available on hi