Vision Freestyle": "Hip-Hop & R&B Singles Chart - 26 June 2020". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022 . Retrieved 1 April 2022. Jamel Bousbaa was born to an Irish mother and an Algerian father. He grew up on the Gascoigne Estate in Barking, London being raised by his grandmother. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] Personal life [ edit ] Andra (26 February 2023). "Potter Payper gives visual treatment to introspective single "Multifaceted" ". GRM Daily. Archived from the original on 30 March 2023 . Retrieved 30 March 2023. I’m all good brother. Happy to be finished with my album – happy with my album. Happy for my music to just be out, I haven’t been outside for some time, basically. I’m excited to start dropping again and excited about what’s to come. I don’t want to give away too much, but yeah, I’m not dropping an album and going quiet again – I’m not in jail anymore. Not For The Radio [NFTR] – Potter Payper". Archived from the original on 1 October 2023 . Retrieved 29 September 2020.

The sincere yet elegiac talent that comes through in all of his songs is evidently a product of his personality today. On arrival at his photoshoot in a studio in Walthamstow, east London, Potter’s contagious, energetic banter rubs off on us all. While he is being snapped, he playfully rubs his feet in circles on the ground, creating sounds that spark laughter from everyone in the room. Although his time behind bars has undoubtedly influenced his work, the rapper’s storytelling of street politics and the detailed accounts of personal experiences in his music are impossible to mimic. It’s this ability to melodically paint vividly clear images with his words that sets Potter apart from his rap peers. A stint behind bars helped shape Payper. (Photo: Francisco Gomez De Villaboa) When Potter was growing up, he started to see the urban deterioration of his community in Barking. Now the place where he was raised has drastically changed. Gentrification has swept through working-class areas in a process that saw his mother forced to move. The message of it all, I would say, is who’s the biggest exports from our country musically? Yeah, are that in terms of rap music – they are not who they are off of that camera. They have manufactured images, maybe by themselves, or maybe with help from industry. But, either way, they are not themselves in any way, shape, or form. My whole journey has been that I’m unapologetically myself. And I stay true to my craft, the sound of who I am as a person at different points in times in my life. Sometimes I’m flush, sometimes I’m high, and sometimes I’m low and that reflects in my music heavily.SOCIAL HOUSING AND MOBILITY IN 2017: THE GASCOIGNE ESTATE A CREATIVE INVESTIGATION BY STEVE LAWES" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 August 2022 . Retrieved 29 September 2020. Thiessen, Christopher (23 July 2019). "Breakdown: All 52 Upcoming UK Artists Stormzy Mentions During His Glastonbury Speech". DJ Booth. Archived from the original on 7 November 2020 . Retrieved 1 October 2020. verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Catch Up": "Hip-Hop & R&B Singles Chart - 6 August 2021". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022 . Retrieved 1 April 2022. Your last project Thanks For Waiting was a collaboration mixtape. What did you learn from that creative experience?

This achievement by the east London MC seems all the more remarkable when you learn that he had been released from prison just months before. Potter served half of a four-year sentence for his role in running a county lines drug-smuggling operation. Read next Having been in the UK rap game for a decade now, do you see yourself as an older to some of your peers? Your Training Day 3 mixtape went to number three in the charts, did you make that project with chart success in mind?s 'Mood' Ends 'WAP' Reign In U.K. as Pop Smoke Makes Chart History". Archived from the original on 31 October 2021 . Retrieved 29 September 2020. When I was growing up, I couldn’t look my nan in her eyes and see how she knew I was lying or doing the wrong thing. But just before she died, I could look her in her eyes and that’s how I knew I was on the correct path,” he says. “I have three sisters that were being looked after by my nan — but now I can look after them. As long as I continue doing this, that lets me be at peace.” One million percent. I would say I’m an older, but not the oldest. I had this conversation with Giggs, he called to congratulate me about Thanks For Waiting hitting number eight in the charts and I said that chart positioning wasn’t great – a lot of negativity. I said I had been doing it for ages and Giggs told me that he had been doing it for longer!