SL returns with the visual to brand new track ‘FWA Boss’

SL returns today with his first new single of 2019, ‘FWA Boss’, which is available now. Paying homage to shows such as Killing Eve, the visual follows SL on the trail of a mysterious female assassin, robbing from underworld figures as a means of revenge and making a statement on the power of women as a force to be reckoned with.

The still-just-17-year-old has already eclipsed over 100 million streams with just a handful of early releases, as well as collaborating with the likes of Nines, Chip, JB, having only just left school. New single ‘FWA Boss’ is a suitably-titled statement of intent from a young talent firmly in charge of his destiny, and rapidly shifting the landscape of UK underground music whilst he does it.

There’s more to the mask than meets the eye where SL is concerned. The Peckham-born, Croydon-raised rapper represents a new class borne out of the cross-pollination of genres: rugged street narratives met with intricate, at times serene instrumentals. As you might guess from his breakthrough viral hit, ‘Tropical’, for now SL describes his sound as ‘tropical drill’: it’s melodic, conversational and tongue-in-cheek, but twisted via an upbringing influenced by golden-age rap like Wu-Tang Clan, DMX, and Jay Z. To listen to the likes of ‘FWA Boss’ is to gain a deeper insight into British youth culture, all delivered with SL’s extraordinary ease and clarity.

Even this early on his career, SL has shown that he doesn’t want to be confined to one story, one sound (or one mask). Here is an artist who is looking to a life beyond drill and the lifestyle that often comes with it. With further shows TBA and a new EP expected later this spring, 2019 is firmly SL’s for the taking.