Album Review: HOME? by Wretch 32

With admirable ambition, the British rapper delves into a concept on his best album yet Although there are many more mentions of 'home' on Wretch 32's latest album, he ends his verse on Black And British with what feel like the titular lines: "on Black Boy Lane I was caught on my own / he told me go back to my country, I thought I was home / guess I was wrong". Home? is far removed from the pop-rap with which he made his name, focussing on issues of identity, race and black British history. The record opens with a rendition of Goldie's Inner City Life, leading into Wretch's reflective lyrics about family and his struggle to see the proceeds of his work.

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Four years on from his last release, UK rap heavyweight Wretch 32 made a bold return last week with 'HOME?'. The carefully curated, fifteen-track LP sees the Tottenham-born rapper use this project to do exactly as its title suggests: question the concepts of home, place, and identity from a second-generation Jamaican immigrant perspective. He isn't alone in doing this, as the album is packed with a thoughtful assortment of well-placed features from the likes of Little Simz, Ghetts, and Kano, to name but a few.

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