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“I make music what sounds like where I’m from. It sounds like Bradford. It sounds like burglars and council estates and people without parents.... It sounds like being let down, but making the best of it.” 26 year old Blazer Boccle is used to being a contradiction. “My whole life has been lived in between very different spaces” Blazer says. His Rastafarian mother raised him on a council estate in Bradford on a diet of Lauryn Hill, Angie Stone and Erykah Badu, all the while Rock and guitar music blasted from neighbours back gardens in the predominantly white neighbourhood. For the past couple of years Blazer has been honing a sound that reflects the wildly different genres he was exposed to growing up: the rock music listened to by the ‘geezers’ down the pub, the hip hop beats his uncles introduced him to, the smooth neo-soul and r&b played in his mothers house and the bassline/niche he raved to at illegal parties. Blazer raps about what it’s like to live hard and dangerously, with very little to lose. His lyrics embody the spirit of Bradford, and have the perfect balance of northern charm and grit. “I want to break stereotypes. Someone who looks like me from where I’m from, I shouldn’t be making music like this. I just want to show people this is me and I can say what I want, how I want and when I want”