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The 19-year-old rapper from Streatham weaves politics and interpersonal struggle in between his bangers – and carries his young audience with him
Streatham rapper Dave is just 19 years old. It’s something you have to keep telling yourself, because it’s completely bewildering. On his first headline tour, still to release his debut album, he has a sold-out show of 1,400 fans – with an average age at least a year younger than him – singing along to a downbeat, epic state-of-the-nation address about the Grenfell fire, privatised healthcare (his mum is a nurse) and Theresa May (“A question for the new prime minister: how’d you get a heart so sinister?”). He pulls off the same trick on another long and reflective song from his second EP, Game Over – released a month ago – called How I Met My Ex, in which he asks his teenage crowd: “How many men stop their women from achieving what they can, because in secret they’ve been feeling insecure?”
Dave broaches these subjects without ever becoming a worthy bore and he’s clearly grateful for the audience’s enthusiasm for his message. “I love jumping around and shouting just as much as you guys,” he says between songs, “but the fact you can listen to me rap about politics for seven or eight minutes means so, so much to me.”
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