The play that changed my life: ‘Grime was ostracised but the Royal Court saw it as an art form – and made me a better MC’
Poet in da Corner by Debris Stevenson revealed that acting in a theatre can have a lot in common with MCing in a clubBy 2018 I was in my third or fourth year professionally as a grime MC and producer. I was 27 and didn’t have any aspirations in theatre. But Debris Stevenson, a good friend of mine, asked me to help her write one of the first drafts of a song in her play Poet in da Corner. I did that and then she inv…