“Some things remind you of home, the things that smell like home, the things that look like home, the things that taste like home, this sounds like home so it feels like home, welcome to my house.” - Wretch 32
Listeners were first introduced to this new chapter with the single “Black and British” ft. Little Simz and Benjamin A.D. Wretch's Grandmother Beverley Scott is poignantly sampled at the end of the track, taken from the milestone ‘Scenes From The Farm’ Broadwater Farm estate documentary, first televised in 1988. The roots of activism and black representation run deeply through Wretch 32’s family-life and upbringing. Growing up he remembers the years of police raids on his grandmother’s house in the aftermath of the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985, remembers waking in the mornings to see his Dad speaking out for the community on GMTV, or his Uncle doing the same on London Tonight, the posters of Muhammad Ali flowered on the walls, and the community activists holding court in the family’s front room. The aforementioned ‘Scenes From The Farm’ captures the lives and realities of the Afro-Caribbean community in Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm estate. It depicts the aftermath of the 1985 riots, a community stirred to rise in resistance after sustained accounts of police brutality. When creating this new music, Wretch kept the documentary on repeat.