Track Record: Me, Music, and the War on Blackness

'When Grime became the soundtrack to our lives, it gave a voice to the hustle. We were all looking for money, but it was deeper than that; we were looking for a future.'__________George the Poet knows better than anybody the importance of reading your surroundings. Born to Ugandan parents on the St Raphael's Estate in Neasden, north-west London, he began rapping when he was 15. This environment was his teacher and his inspiration: it gave him the language, the experience and the skills to turn his hobby into his career. After five years as a rapper, a change of environment pushed him in another direction and into the world of poetry. With this change he shot to fame and built a worldwide fanbase. But something was missing and he found himself searching for something greater. He ended up focussing on one question: Why?Track Record is George the Poet's engrossing and deeply personal account of his search for purpose. Looking back at his life and career, and the environment he surrounded himself in, this is a powerful and important memoir by one of the UK's most creative artists.