BEATS VS. PITCH

AWAY FROM THE HYPERBOLE OF WHO HE IS, MASKED RAPPER DIDE IS A HUMAN VOICE FOR ELITE FOOTBALLERS.

ISAAC MUK

THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘COLD CITY’ – the recent single from anonymous rapper, claimed-to-be current Premier League footballer Dide – opens with aerial shots of the architecturally striking Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate in North London. Panning down to ground level, over a menacing, keys-led, drill-informed beat, it follows a teenage boy as he navigates being with his single mother and the uncompromising turns and temptations life on the estate can bring. Interspersed throughout, the video cuts to the masked rapper dressed in designer garb riding in the back seat of a 4x4 Rolls-Royce or moving around a luxury apartment. He spits with relentless flow: “I live in the hills like Drizzy or Cole / The pain in my heart has never been told / My family warm, my city is…

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Huck United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 81: Spring/Autumn 2024

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