There’s nothing I enjoy about that at all.” It’s actually very hard to deal with not releasing records as often as other people. That does come with a stipulation, a point that I didn't read in the small print: you’re gonna spend quite a lot of time with people going, ‘What are you doing?’… I'd much rather have my life where I was releasing music on a regular basis. “So don’t put anything f***ing blasé out just to keep your momentum going, stop and take the time and release something that’s good. “I got brought up in a way, with my management company and s***, to not do anything until you think it’s really good,” he explains. On the topic of the mystique that develops during lengthy breaks, for instance, he warms. Ne-Yo: ‘I’ve been at parties where people boo an R Kelly record – that’s bulls***’. The Rolling Stones’ musical director Chuck Leavell: ‘Mick Jagger must be from another planet’.Jackson Wang, Niki, Milli, Bibi and more: Meet 88rising – the trailblazing Asian collective making global moves.His electric, motormouth bursts of rabid street poetry and bare-boned urban ballads, incorporating punk, soul, folk and rap, epitomised the fast-evolving excitement of the early streaming era in the indie-pop sphere, tracks such as “Calm Down Dearest” and “Sticks and Stones” have become revered modern texts. If Macca was there as the boomers’ generational icon, Treays held a similar position for the millennials onsite. Taking a corner table, we small-talk about his ambitions to play in South America and his recent live comeback, warming up at west London’s Subterania for 600 fans before headlining the John Peel stage at Glastonbury, opposite Paul McCartney. A decade since our last beer together, Treays greets me warmly outside a Covent Garden pub, more bearded and bespectacled than when last we met, but his endearing nose-wheeze of a laugh still ever-ready. How much of his sporadic antagonism is an affectation, a defence mechanism or simply toying with interviewers for sport is hard to quantify. Ever since “Sheila”’s melodic parade of drunks, dealers and addicts established him as the most renowned rap-punk troubadour of the urban sprawl back in 2006, the now 36-year-old Jamie Treays has developed something of a reputation for being prickly with the press.
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