Born and raised in London, the 26-year-old musician and rapper Jeshi is the UK’s bold new outlier, delivering brash yet poetic songs infused with personal storytelling and powerful social commentary.

His debut EP, Pussy Palace, was released in 2016; this was succeeded by another EP, The World’s Spinning Too Fast, the following year. In 2019, he featured on Celeste’s song Summer and Vegyn’s track I Don’t Owe U NYthing, in addition to touring with slowthai. His EP, BAD TASTE, came out in 2020 with much acclaim and was praised as “modern British rap at its best”. In 2021, while working on the imminent follow-up Jeshi featured on Vegyn’s I See You Sometimes – lead single from his new EP ‘Like A Good Old Friend’.

“We live in a time right now where people are so intent on boxing everything in, you know – ‘this is drill’ or ‘this is conscious’, and anything that doesn’t quite fit a preexisting mould is slapped with the alternative sticker, it’s all bullshit. My music is my story and my take on the world at the end of the day.” While Jeshi’s music refuses to be constrained by a single genre it is underpinned by one simple motive: “I just want to make music that speaks into people’s lives,” he says. “In the same way that my favourite musicians have done that for me.”