if we used to be friends its cos i used to have time

(Taliban) Trim has left Roll Deep. His new CD, Soul Food, is out and he's about the best MC in Britain. Factually. In this freestyle his slurred, abstract style fractures some pretty starightforward grime instrumentals (both produced by Skepta). Sometimes when Trim MCs, he's just talking.



When he's just talking, he's got stories to tell. Trim goes to Ayia Napa...

"I went with Roll Deep for a week and certain people were getting chased with bottles by N.A.S.T.Y Crew. I’m in my bedroom, people knock on my door and say your bredrin’s been stabbed, so I come out and this girl’s outside shouting in my face, so I pushed her away. Two minutes later, somebody from N.A.S.T.Y is around the corner on his moped trying to drive into me on a 50cc. I jumped off my moped and we started swinging, but we didn’t really hit each other because it’s a drunk thing. Then I see this big guy standing there with cane rolls, so I thought fuck this, so I went into my room, come out with a shank to defend myself. I’m outside and surrounded by four guys and then I hear sirens, so I run to stash the knife. Then the police come and this girl runs over to the police and gets me arrested. The police took my passport off me, bruv. I was stuck there in Ayia Napa for about five months trying to get back to my own country by boat or whatever. I was raving for five months, bruv. I had to pay £1,500 to get it back. I’m not allowed in Greece and I’m never gonna go back."