“My hair is more interesting than my face most of the time,” says Fabiano Lewis, aka Osquello, as he poses like a well trained model, hitting iconic poses without being prompted as he wears the PS Paul Smith Happy + Stan Ray collaboration.

In many stories, there’s a mother who’s the unsung hero of it all. In Loshh’s case, it’s no different. Explaining that although he didn’t realise it as a child, he appreciates the music he once begged for his mum to turn off - his current mission is to update that sound. “Growing up I didn’t think I liked it [Pasuma and Wande Coal], I’d always tell my mum to change it,” says Loshh. “The only challenge for me as an artist is making it modern in today’s society.”

To celebrate this homage to Basquiat, we linked up with a modern day enigma closer to home - Mattie Cozartt, wearing the 1460 boot that features Basquiat’s ‘Untitled’(1982) - and spoke to him about life, lockdown and breaking boundaries that others try to impose on him.

Where do we even begin when speaking about the King of North London? Perhaps we take him for granted due to the fact he has been around for as long as most of us can remember. Being a fellow North Londoner myself, it’s only right that we pay homage to the goat that is ‘Big Smoke’, coming out of Meridian Estate. Whether your first Skepta moment was seeing him and Devilman clash on Lord of the Mics.

‘Do what I’m doing right now, and take over the world, take over MY world’ is the response Kida Kudz gave to us asking his future plans. With such big dreams, but even bigger talent, we know that Kida Kudz could be pivotal in moving the afro sound from ‘the side to the main stage’. With an impressive repertoire of collaborations already, it’s clear the scene has got time for Kida Kudz.