Calling the British MC slowthai an inheritor to the grime wave of the mid-2000s feels a little too simple. Yeah, the grime influence is there: The beats are serrated, the delivery rough, the energy redlined. But if bands like The Clash represented a musical response to Thatcherite England—a cross-racial, working-class mix of punk, reggae, pub rock and soul—slowthai feels like the sound of England in the age of Brexit: hostile, unsparing, mixing grime with trap, punk and contemporary electronic music while retaining a fierce insularity. That he’s funny only makes the class warfare go down easier. Welcome to one of the most exciting emerging voices in 2020s rap.