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image captionThe rapper slowthai was nominated for the prestigious Mercury prize in 2019
The rapper Slowthai has organised a festival in his hometown with a tagline of no smile, no entry .
The Northampton-born artist has put together the Happyland festival at the town s County Cricket Ground for 25 September.
The 26-year-old said it would be a place you can be yourself without judgement, expectations and impressions of someone else .
The line-up includes Beabadoobee, Idles and Pa Salieu.
The Covid-19 pandemic wiped out summer festivals in 2020, but some are expected to return this year, with all legal limits on social contact due to be removed by the government on 21 June, depending on the rates of infection.
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“My hair is fucked,” slowthai says, haphazardly flattening his cropped curls. The rapper is nestled in a basement-cum-makeshift-studio in his native England. He’s also lost his spliff. “But we’re living. This is life.”
With the exception of his unflinching ambition, tobacco-weed is the strongest substance in slowthai s body these days. The 26-year-old rapper, otherwise known as Tyron Kaymone Frampton, says he wept upon reaching number one on the UK charts in February with
TYRON, but this time last year, he tells
GQ, drugs had derailed his better judgement, and his drinking had become reckless.
These were side effects of slowthai’s ascent to the upper echelon of the British music scene. Few Northampton locals believed “slow Tyrone,” a mixed kid raised in a council estate, to be a superstar-in-the-making, and when his gripping debut album, the harsh Brexit critique