UK rapper Dave has made a name for himself over the past few years thanks to his raw, unflinching lyrics. Now, the MC’s debut album, Psychodrama, is here. The 11-track project features Burna Boy, J Hus, and Ruelle, and includes his recent singles “Black” and “Streatham.”
“That track is my experience,” Dave told The Guardian about the project’s lead single, “Black.” “Me being south London, black, Nigerian, that’s what I’m mainly basing it on. It’s a good representation of what I associate with and everything that I think, but I don’t think that it’s universal for the whole black experience, because there’s too many different races and dynamics within the race of black. For a black person who’s Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that’s a completely different relationship with being black and how you might be accepted in that culture or that world. Everyone’s experience is different. Especially black women and black men.”
Psychodrama follows Dave’s 2017 EP, Game Over, and was recorded over the course of one year starting in early 2018.
