{"id":15302,"date":"2026-09-08T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/09\/08\/cantonas-a-kwengletarian-inside-the-maximalist-magical-mentality-of-rising-london-irish-rapper-kibo-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:36:09","slug":"cantonas-a-kwengletarian-inside-the-maximalist-magical-mentality-of-rising-london-irish-rapper-kibo-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/09\/08\/cantonas-a-kwengletarian-inside-the-maximalist-magical-mentality-of-rising-london-irish-rapper-kibo-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cantona\u2019s a Kwengletarian!\u2019 Inside the maximalist, magical mentality of rising London Irish rapper Kibo Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The masterful \u200bHarrow MC behind the year\u2019s funniest, most inventive UK rap debut explains how his parents sparked his ravenous outlook \u2013 and why he\u2019s wrestling his peers<\/p>\n<p>A few Guinnesses into an interview in his local Irish boozer, and 26-year-old Harrow rapper Kibo is cooking. We\u2019re talking football. As a kid, he preferred playing Fifa Street \u2013 where ordinary players backflip off walls to score incomprehensible bicycle kicks \u2013 to regular realistic Fifa. \u201cIf I\u2019m gonna play a video game, I want to do some shit I can\u2019t do in real life,\u201d he says. He\u2019s drawn to similarly miraculous footballers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/aug\/30\/mario-balotelli-interview-italy-saudi-arabia-maturity\">Balotelli<\/a>, Drogba in his Chelsea days, Ronaldinho and his dad\u2019s favourite, Eric Cantona: \u201cOh God, with his collar popped, looking like Kanye West?\u201d Kibo then recites Cantona\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=INiT1cA_Eqk\">2019 Uefa president\u2019s award speech<\/a> \u2013 a mash-up of King Lear and philosophical musings on war and science \u2013 to near perfection.<\/p>\n<p>Magic is at the heart of Kwelengletarianism, \u201cthe idea of being in a place that\u2019s very grey, and trying to find a prismatic iridescence in it\u201d, that underpins Kibo\u2019s sensational album Kwengletaria: Ragamyff. (Cantona? \u201cHe\u2019s a Kwengletarian to the nth degree.\u201d) During his long rise through London\u2019s rap scene, canonised by co-signs from Skepta, JME and Dave, Kibo has become a rare MC from Harrow, the town that produced Kate Nash and Jai Paul but no rappers of note. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome,\u201d he says of its lack of rap tradition, \u201ca complete blank slate\u201d to be as imaginative as he wants. Kwengletaria finds the myth in the mundane: on the track Bakerloo Dragon, a normal tube journey becomes a cruising broken-beat roller aboard a fire-spitting Bakerloo line train. I tell him my train to Harrow was one of these flame-graffitied dragons. \u201cBut did you get any sparks?\u201d he asks enthusiastically. \u201cYou get sparks after Stonebridge Park!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/sep\/08\/kibo-rapper-london-irish-kwengletaria-ragamyff\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/sep\/08\/kibo-rapper-london-irish-kwengletaria-ragamyff\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/954d39a4a8cdf0190f2ff28a090127fe58dedb8b\/470_316_2948_2358\/master\/2948.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ea29ac545bd65232f2ba3307ce844bbe\" title=\"\u2018Cantona\u2019s a Kwengletarian!\u2019 Inside the maximalist, magical mentality of rising London Irish rapper Kibo\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The masterful \u200bHarrow MC behind the year\u2019s funniest, most inventive UK rap debut explains how his parents sparked his ravenous outlook \u2013 and why he\u2019s wrestling his peers A few Guinnesses into an interview in his local Irish boozer, and 26-year-old Harrow rapper Kibo is cooking. 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