Joshua Eduardo (b. 1997), professionally known as Blanco, is a British rapper hailing from Kennington, South London. He is widely known as a member of the iconic UK Drill collective Harlem Spartans.

He would start to gain notoriety alongside the group in 2016 through singles such as “Call Me A Spartan”, “Kennington Where It Started” and “Kent Nizzy” – tracks in which actively cemented the group as one of the most influential UK Drill collectives in the country.

Blanco was arrested alongside fellow Harlem Spartans member MizOrMac in February 2017 when their vehicle was intercepted by police and searches found a loaded gun on MizOrMac and a samurai sword on Blanco. They were jailed in 2018 with Blanco receiving 3-years.

After a steady growing solo-career following Harlem Spartan parting ways as a group, Blanco refined his rapping skills showcasing he can do more than just UK Drill as he also swerved in and out of Trap and Afroswing genre’s – perfecting his slow-set cadence and Anime wordplay, the latter in which inspired his debut EP English Dubbed, which was released in November 2019.

Blanco released his full-length debut mixtape to be released in August 2021 titled City of God to critical acclaim.

When speaking to NME, Blanco explained:

I want everyone to listen to the music and have an opinion on it. I just want to show off what I could do because I’ve never done a project like this before. ‘English Dubbed’ was obviously an EP and I did that before the pandemic. It was definitely a test because I didn’t know what my sound was and I just put out a bunch of songs. My favourite song off the [new] mixtape is ‘TSG’. I had fun making it and usually when I have fun, the songs come out great. ‘Pain’ is a good one too. Rapping about Skatoony [a now-cancelled Cartoon Network gameshow in the ‘00s]… it just comes to my head when I’m rapping.