🎧 Approved: PS Hitsquad

Leaving the tribulations of his teens behind, Peckham’s PS Hitsquad is easily positioning himself alongside the pulsing vanguard of UK rap’s emerging underground talent.

His rise has been anything but overnight. At just sixteen, he and lifelong collaborator Kwengface dropped their debut single as founding members of legendary Peckham drill crew Zone 2, helping set the pace for the first wave of London’s revolutionary road rap explosion. 

Though Zone 2’s rise was halted as members served time, PS’s legend only grew, his inimitable charisma and lyricism maintaining an ever-growing presence.

Now, with his long-awaited debut album arriving in July, PS appears ready to move beyond the expectations tied to his roots. New single ‘Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda’, full of synths, footwork-esque drums, hazy nostalgia and melodic layers, is a peek into his moves beyond the singles-driven legacy often associated with the scene, paving the way for what PS brands as “post-drill”. 

Constantly switching it up, it’s a sound that still carries traces of grime and drill, but stretches into post-punk and electronic influences. This single sounds like it’s put a fire cracker under SWV’s ‘Always On My Mind’, but maybe that’s just the atmosphere of it talking.

“I feel like this project puts me in a different conversation”, he says. “Everyone still wants to put the drill label on me, but I hope that my growth will finally be appreciated with this project. I structured the album in a way that isn’t just a bunch of tracks together, it paints a lifelong picture”. We’re ready to see it.

🎧 Listen to ‘Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda’ below