M24

M24 first generated attention while still a teenager in the celebrated Brixton outfit 150, channeling his playful drill style into the British mainstream between the final years of the 2010s and the start of the following decade.

Rising within that 150 network, the Brixton rapper secured his initial breakthrough by linking with 410’s Skengdo and AM, adding his voice to the Myatt’s Field pair’s 2017 release “Do It & Crash.” A string of freestyle turns quickly expanded his following, beginning with a late-2018 slot on PressPlay’s “Lightwork” and continuing through early-2019 visits to Krown Media’s Heatseeker, PacManTV’s The Hotspot, and Mixtape Madness’ Mad About Bars. Capitalizing on the visibility, he issued a strong sequence of singles across 2019, the most prominent being the Stickz-assisted “We Don’t Dance.” That track was soon eclipsed by the 2020 Tion Wayne duet “London,” which accumulated more than 40 million streams. After contributing to high-profile cuts such as iLL BLU’s “Dumpa” and GRM Daily’s “Peter Crouch,” M24 unveiled his first mixtape, Drip N Drill, in August 2020. He characterized the project as capturing “a new M24,” an effort that broadened his sound throughout the U.K. rap landscape by weaving Afrobashment and trap textures into the prevailing drill framework.