'The state means to kill us': meet Gaika, Britain's most vital rapper

The Brixton artist makes tracks that focus on gentrification, violence and the immigrant experience - 'black music with all the sex left in it and all the bullshit maths taken out', as he says Gaika has spent the day in Brixton's Brockwell Park to try to find some space to breathe and ease a pollen-induced tightness in his chest. It hasn't worked, and when we meet in a nearby pub it becomes clear that this sensation may have been triggered by something other than pollen. Born to Jamaican and Gre...