Hassaan Mackey has been played on NTS shows including Ted Draws, with Like A Diamond first played on 10 October 2014.

Back with that grit, tell the soundman to turn this sh*t up. New York MC Hassaan Mackey slangs words and onomatopoeia, rhymes like he wants to, and backs the whole room into a corner with a raw vision of the streets that pierces ordinary experience and gets at life’s marrow. Meanwhile Detroit producer Apollo Brown lays the sonic foundation with hard drums and big bass, while the crackle of vinyl hums.

Gritty and soaked in soul, Daily Bread brings to mind an old photograph…