Summary
- U.K. rapper Jim Legxacy has unveiled his latest long-form studio release, black british music (2025)
- The 15-track project cements Legxacy as one of the most promising pioneers in both the British rap scene and global conversation
Jim Legxacy has proved to be one of the most versatile voices in the U.K. underground rap scene for the past few years, most notably producing the beat for Central Cee and Dave’s “Sprinter” in the Summer of 2023. Released just after the then-23-year-old rapper released his homeless n*gga pop music, “Sprinter” quickly gained global virality and stole all of the valor from Legxacy’s second longform release. But the rapper is no stranger to jumping through hoops to get where he wants to go. black british music (2025) is a time capsule of the rapper’s last few years, a tapestry of genres, samples, and styles that piece together his homegrown coming-of-age.
Just two years ago, Legxacy was homeless – a struggle he addresses right away on black british music (2025)‘s first track, “context.” “For all of the grief and, and we go through all this, this sh*t / Just before then, I felt like I had just turned my life around from bein’ homeless / To doin’ the mixtape and then doin’ “Sprinter,” like I actually felt like raw, my life was / Goin’ in such a sick direction and I, and I, and I, and I’ve got out the mud,” he says on the track, concluding with “and I’ve got out the mud / But, you know, you get out of mud, then there’s always gonna be / There’s always gonna, there’s always gonna be mud.”
black british music (2025) isn’t, by any means, Legxacy getting his bearings; he has them – he’s just realizing the ground he can cover when he ditches the constraints of genre and is rather guided by his own boundless creative vision.
To call black british music (2025) a “rap” album feels reductive. Each of the project’s 15 songs exists in its own ether, all of them coming together to create a vast and versatile soundscape that spans a myriad of sonic influences, including but surely not limited to: trap, bedroom pop, grime, drill, and Afropop.
1. context
2. stick
3. new david bowie
4. sun ft. Fimiguerrero
5. ‘06 wayne rooney
6. issues of trust
7. father
8. d.b.a.b
9. big time forward
10. sos
11. i just banged a snus in canada water
12. dexters phone call ft. dexter in the newsagent
13. 3x – ft. Dave
14. tiger driver ‘91
15. brief
“can’t believe I’m actually saying this. thank u to my friends that were present with me whilst i was going through the absolute hardest period of my life & gave me the strength & motivation to keep going,” Legxacy wrote in an Instagram caption, giving flowers to his family, friends, “small but mighty” team, and his dog.
“this is just the beginning truly.”
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