Rapper and actor Bashy talks to Jamz about his song ‘Lost In Dreams’ taken from his long-awaited 2024 album ‘Being Poor Is Expensive’

They get into why the timing was important for Bashy’s return to music and how the album began its existence as poetry after taking some time to reflect on life during the pandemic.

Bashy talks about how ‘Lost In Dreams’ is a letter to Harlesden, and he tells Jamz how small moments in time could have changed his life entirely as a young Black man, like it has done for others he grew up with.

Lily Fontaine of 2024’s Mercury Prize Winner English Teacher sits down to chat to Jamz about ‘The World’s Biggest Paving Slab’.

Taken from their album ‘This Could Be Texas’, the lyrics of the song were written by Lily while she was at university, and while originally penned to her hometown Colne (home of the World’s Biggest Paving Slab), looking back, the song has become a metaphor for so many other things.

In this conversation, Lily and Jamz get into conversation about school, race and culture in small, predominantly white towns, and being creatively inspired by their mums.

On the final episode of this series of Between The Lines, Jamz talks to Hak Baker about his song ‘Windrush Baby’.

They share a personal conversation about their families, Hak’s experiences in prison which is where he first picked up a guitar, as well as the special relationship he has with his mum and discovering more about his roots.

You can listen to Windrush Baby here:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6UzZctITlti1xVg4zA6zeJ?si=8d8f4569299a4f0d