Ever since he first swaggered onto the UK underground scene in the early 2010s, Mancunian MC Bugzy Malone has been a one-man riposte to the notion that grime is primarily a London movement. All the way, personal experience (specifically his past as a young offender) has been his rocket fuel. But, despite his canny embrace of UK Garage samples, the erstwhile Aaron Davis' mixtapes are marked by a hard-edged, unhurried flow, that taps a line to the golden age of street-level, hip hop storytelling.