(Black Butter Records)The Nottingham duo rehash the formula of their TikTok-famous single Don’t Rush in an attempt to replicate its success
There were just six days between Young T & Bugsey releasing their debut album and the
UK going into its first lockdown in March 2020. But while the
Coronavirus Act kept the silky Nottingham rap duo off stages, their songs did the algorithm-boosted rounds on TikTok – most notably the smooth slinking Don’t Rush, which was propelled to internet ubiquity (and eventually the US Billboard charts) by a glow-up challenge started on the app by a bored Hull University student. Compounding the runaway success of a single song into something more concrete isn’t a challenge unique to the TikTok age, but it’s one Young T & Bugsey – AKA Ra’chard Tucker and Doyin Julius – are nonetheless shouldering with their second full-length album, Truth Be Told.