UK rap powerhouse Knucks drops his new single “Gold Tooth” ft. Blaqbonez

Following the success of his recent single Cut Knuckles, UK rap powerhouse Knucks drops his new single “Gold Tooth” ft. Blaqbonez, taken from his highly anticipated sophomore album, A Fine African Man (AFAM – his birth name, meaning My Name Is My Name), out October 31st via ADA.

The album follows Knucks’ breakthrough debut LP Alpha Place, widely hailed as a contemporary British rap classic. Alpha Place debuted at No.3 on the UK Official Album Charts and tied with Little Simz’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert as the MOBO Awards 2022 Album of the Year—the first tie in the show’s history.

A Fine African Man expands the scope, tracing Knucks’ journey into adulthood between his birthplace of Nigeria and his adopted home of London. The album’s title nods to his birth name, Afam, and frames a powerful narrative of identity, inherited shame, cultural alienation, masculinity, and the reclaiming of ancestral pride as a first-generation immigrant.

As with all of Knucks’ work, cinematic references permeate the album’s world—from Nollywood classics to the cover art’s homage to City of God—making A Fine African Man both deeply personal and culturally expansive.

Speaking on the album, Knucks says “A Fine African Man, or AFAM. The Igbo name given to me by my family. Afamefuna: ‘May my name not be forgotten’ This project is two years in the making. Two years of writing, thinking, living. Long nights in studios from London, to Jamaica to Nigeria. I see this is one as a continuation of Alpha Place – another side of who I am. I’m born and raised in London, but so much of who I am is because of my Nigerian heritage and the time I spent there during one of the most pivotal years of my life.

This project explores the dualities of a kid born and raised in London, who is also very much Nigerian, very much an African man. I was interested in what those two worlds could sound like on wax, since I’m a product of both. I hope this project lives with you in the same way you lived with Alpha Place”.

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