Star GB From Study Centre to North London Screens

Star GB’s ‘Don’t Do That‘ didn’t come out of a high-end studio. It started in sixth form, written in the middle of study hours, recorded that same night in his bedroom. “I should’ve been revising in the study centre,” he says, “but instead I got distracted and ended up coming across an instrumental in which I immediately wrote to.”

The beat holds to drill’s framework and Star presses against it with clipped delivery and hooks that land fast and leave quicker. He doesn’t crowd the track. Every bar feels measured, every pause used with intent.

The video, shot by @shotsby.shi_, was the first time he pushed his music past the bedroom and into view. “This song was the song that me and @shotsby.shi_ shot our first ever music video to,” he explains. Soon after, The Square LDN reached out, bringing him onto their channel and giving Islington another name to carry forward.

The track itself is layered with what he grew up around. At the start, a Jamaican voice cuts through harsh, challenging, alive with authority. “The sound of the angry Jamaican man’s voice at the start was a sample in which I added to show my inspiration from my Caribbean background,” he says. It’s more than an intro. It connects his own verses to the older influence around him: “I respect them and they respect my hustle as a young boy in the music scene.”

Drill gives the track its edge, but Star threads melody through it, leaning into the UK rap and dancehall he grew up listening to. “This song contains melodies and UK rap mixed with drill,” he says, and that mix doesn’t feel forced it comes directly from his listening, his background, and his environment.

What you hear isn’t polish. It’s presence. A cut written in a study centre, recorded the same night, pushed out with intent, and already finding its footing on screens and in channels that matter.