Akala is a 26-year-old rapper, label-owner, and educator. He began his career as a grime artist, but has evolved to become a hip hop artist, with many tracks containing historical facts and deep messages. In 2006 he was voted the Best Hip Hop Act at the MOBO Awards. Akala’s lyrics focus upon class struggle, social conditioning and alienation, and is seen as a driving force in a new generation of British Music that focusses on disseminating ideas of social change, whilst exposing the harsh truths of British and Western social systems.

Akala (Kingslee Daley) has made it his life’s work to challenge preconceptions and buck prevailing trends; and he isn’t the sort to allow himself to be fitted into any kind of mould. Breaking down the culture of cliché and stereotype that smothers the genre he loves is a major part of the mission he’s taken on, and gives impetus to this third album. His music, blog and lyrics are available via the Akala website.