Stories about London, Culture & Creativity

Hello and welcome back to the F24 Podcast, my name is David and as often as possible I invite a creative around to my studio in North Acton to talk about their lives and interactions with London, culture and creativity.
Sorry about the wait for the first of 2019, I have been incredibly busy on a couple projects, one of which will have me in Dublin for a few weeks split over two trips so I have been lining up interviews with some Irish creatives to record whilst I’m there, looking forward to those.

So here we are… I missed this, its only been a few weeks but its dope getting time like this with people. This week we have UK Culture OG Kish Kash. I have only hung out with Kish on a couple of occasions but his name came before him and I’ve known about him, seen him in places and photos and have some of the same acquaintances to be one of those times where it feels like you been down for years.

Kish isn’t from London, he’s grew up just outside and it was one of those places that bred some serious people in the Hip Hop Scene in the UK in the early days and Kish fills us in on all that and the people he grew up with. He talks about funding his passion through work which eventually lead to his first job working in the culture. He knows a million people, has pulled off and been part of some amazing parts of UK Hip Hop History, represented, introduced, DJed, interviewd and linked up all the while looking so so so fresh.. His style is untouchable, he’s a gent and lucky for us has a great memory.. go check him on @kishkash1 on instagram whilst you listen.. Enjoy, this is Kish Kash’s London, Culture and Creativity story..

This week we’ve got the culture fuelled, creatively striving, spiritual hunting, hustler minded, dope lyricist label owner, Fliptrix. Watching this guy. He used to come down to the shop in Brighton and cop some records and paint every now and then, I also snapped him on polaroid for my collection of friends and visitors to the shop. What he’s done since then, loving and respecting a culture, working hard at his game, taking advice and great advice at that from Kings in the UK Hip Hop world like Jehst and proving he can hold his own on stage, corner and meeting rooms. Along the way he may take a psychedelic to keep him clear on his spiritual path and his ferocious nature of putting out albums will have you chilling, amped, questioning and jumping on each go round. His new albums just dropped yesterday the 23rd Aug, go get it it’s called Inexhale all digital outlets and tangible pieces from high-focus.com.

If you ain’t heard him before, you’ll be intrigued by this interview and go check him after. In the meantime, enjoy and maybe check him and his squad out at @mrfliptrix and @highfocusrecords on Instagram.

Enjoy!

This weeks chat is with Jimi from GANG Studio. I’ve know Jimi for years, a lot of you have also. We met in the early 2000’s through our shared good friend and Brighton stalwart Jode. When I met him he was already thoroughly on his journey with creativity, I remember a time I was getting interviewed for a magazine, they were doing a piece on my shop, we’d just started working with Jimi and the interviewer suggested we were taking him under our wing, which may have been the perception but not the reality, my friend replied by saying, Jimi’s too big to fit under our wings, meaning he was already a creative force to be reckoned with, with an unrivalled skill set and vision. He had the spirit, the energy and the belief that he just could do, and do he would. He’s produced loads of great work which we’ll hear about but tell you what though, it was really interesting him explaining that belief in himself and its root and how that behaviour, attitude, the ‘I’ll have a go’ approach to things wasn’t all it cracked up to be. Not in an overly negative way, just the amount of pressure it puts you. We had an amazing chat, Jimi has achieved a whole lot since putting himself out there as an artist and creative and we talk about all of that and how he see’s himself and how his he is creative now after all these experiences. This is his story about London, culture and creativity. Enjoy!