Pigeons & Planes Presents: No Ceilings With Novelist

Jamie xx, Mumdance and Kanye West collaborator Novelist is one to watch.

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Our friends over at Pigeons & Planes have an ear for what's next. Their latest champion an artist you need to know is the rising grime artist Novelist. Only year after spotlighting the 18-year-old's feature on Mumdance's "Take Time," the London-based producer and MC has released a 1 Sec EP with Mumdance on XL Recordings and hit New York to headline a Lit City Traxrave alongside grime royalty DJ Slimzee. While he has worked previously with Jamie xx, this year found him side-by-side with Kanye West performing "All Day" at the BRIT's and again at London's KOKO.

Of the collaboration with Kanye, Novelist told P&P, “They were looking at what we do, and understood that this is a real serious genre. Kanye was really involved in setting up the structure of the show at KOKO, the order and what the tunes were. People get things misconstrued sometimes and think it’s all abut the glamour and how big your chain is… but this was all about the actual music.”

With a hefty and fast-building resumé, Novelist is undoubtedly an artist to watch. Check him out on SoundCloud and watch him freestyle for P&P below.

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