Exclusive Extract from Where We Come From: So Solid Crew and the birth of UK Rap

Staring into the digital camera with a gentle resilience he says: ‘The UK wanted, deserved one thing like this, some negativity discuss coming from folks from the ghetto, to grasp that we live in a harmful metropolis, you get me . . . I’m simply ringing the alarms, ringing all of the alarms . . . You place me on this system, you place me down there, you place my dad and mom down there to stay, soI had no alternative however to develop up round this stuff.’After which, reflecting on how far So Strong had come he says, ‘We’ve achieved lots already, man, damaged sure guidelines, kicked off sure doorways so that individuals can’t lock it once more.’