Songer

Songer, the Reading rapper whose U.K. rap style foregrounds intricate wordplay, first drew widespread attention through a memorable appearance on the British platform Bl@ckbox before cementing his reputation via a consistent sequence of full-length projects that began arriving in the late 2010s.

Raised in Wokingham, England, he made his initial Bl@ckbox appearance in 2017 at age seventeen during the platform’s twelfth season, immediately impressing observers with a rapid-fire delivery and densely constructed rhymes. That performance earned him a return slot for season thirteen the following year, after which the footage climbed to the second-most-viewed position in the series’ history, surpassed only by Dave. The momentum from those freestyles carried him into the studio, where his debut EP, Times Two, surfaced in February and his first album, Dream Workz, followed in December 2019. While the early material leaned toward hedonistic themes, his second and third albums, Lyrics for Sanity (2020) and The Sunrise Project (2021), shifted toward more intricate arrangements built around heavier sampling and trap production.

In 2022 he joined Vibe Chemistry, Mr Traumatik, Devilman, and OneDa on the drum’n’bass single “Balling,” then revisited Bl@ckbox for “The Sunrise Session” during the channel’s five-million-subscriber milestone. The campaign for his fourth album, SKALA, opened in 2023 with the D Double E collaboration “04:59,” soon joined by the lo-fi drill track “Golden (Soul Food).” The complete project reached listeners in April of that year, centering on trap while briefly exploring drum’n’bass, Michigan rap, and drill.