Novelist: Novelist Guy review – commanding production from grime’s sage

The idiosyncratic young south London rapper adds moral weight to the tales of black lives on this vivid debut albumIt starts with the name. Novelist, a 21-year-old MC from the south London borough of Lewisham, didn’t go with a particularly gritty byline when he started rhyming in his early teens. He chose Novelist, perhaps because novelists use words to a purpose; they are the masters of their own narratives.It follows, then, that Novelist (Kojo Kankam on his passport) is one of grime&rsqu