With his conscious rhymes and languid, melodic flow, Loyle Carner quickly earned
a reputation as the poetic, thoughtful voice of the UK rap scene, with his debut
album 'Yesterday's Gone' widely regarded as one of the best British albums of
2017.
Growing up in Croydon, South London, he wrote his first poem when he was seven
after the death of one of his friends, and when he was diagnosed as dyslexic his
mother bought him an album by poet Benjamin Zephaniah to inspire him to continue
writing. It had a big effect on Carner and his interest in music and lyric
writing was further...