(0207 Def Jam)The Barking rapper, recently released from
prison, makes good on his promise to focus on
music and invites in his peers for his major-label debut
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The title of Potter Payper’s new mixtape references a letter he sent to his supporters back in 2017. He had been picked up on a drug supply charge and, in 2018, would begin serving a five-year sentence, stunting a decade spent building up a cult following with his raw road-rap freestyles and self-released mixtapes. In his letter, the Barking-born
Rapper promised to focus on music once he got out. True to his word, the 2020 Vision EP arrived days after his release last summer; the final instalment of his Training Day mixtape trilogy came in September. The latter reached No 3 in the album charts, and Potter was snapped up by hip-hop label Def Jam’s new
UK imprint.