Kwadwo Adu Genfi Amponsah, better known by his stage name Kojey Radical, is a British rapper and mixed media visual artist. He is known for incorporating storytelling and Afrocentric themes. His music has been described as "...somewhere between grime-y hip hop and alternative rap with a generous helping of spoken word."
He is also the creative director of arts collective PushCrayons and artist director of contemporary Menswear brand Chelsea Bravo.
Radical was raised in Shoreditch and Hoxton, London, the son of Ghanaian immigrants from Ghana.He began as a spoken word poet and mixed media illustrator, graduating from London College of Fashion with a first BA hons in Fashion Illustration.His passions soon moved into music, releasing his first project Dear Daisy : Opium just after graduating in 2014.Dear Daisy is often referred to as Radical's first conceptual music project in which he touched on topics of love, social media, religion, etc., spawning from a book with the same name Radical was illustrating during his time at university. Radical linked up with UK artist and producer Jay Prince who produced Radical's first official record The Garden Party.Radical followed up with a record called "Bambu", which subsequently became the first single on his sophomore EP 23Winters. Bambu made use of blackface, a persona Radical would later adopt in majority of his early visuals.
Kwadwo Adu Genfi Amponsah, better known by his stage name Kojey Radical, is a British rapper and mixed media visual artist. He is known for incorporating storytelling and Afrocentric themes. His music has been described as "...somewhere between grime-y hip hop and alternative rap with a generous helping of spoken word."
He is also the creative director of arts collective PushCrayons and artist director of contemporary Menswear brand Chelsea Bravo.
Radical was raised in Shoreditch and Hoxton, London, the son of Ghanaian immigrants from Ghana.He began as a spoken word poet and mixed media illustrator, graduating from London College of Fashion with a first BA hons in Fashion Illustration.His passions soon moved into music, releasing his first project Dear Daisy : Opium just after graduating in 2014.Dear Daisy is often referred to as Radical's first conceptual music project in which he touched on topics of love, social media, religion, etc., spawning from a book with the same name Radical was illustrating during his time at university. Radical linked up with UK artist and producer Jay Prince who produced Radical's first official record The Garden Party.Radical followed up with a record called "Bambu", which subsequently became the first single on his sophomore EP 23Winters. Bambu made use of blackface, a persona Radical would later adopt in majority of his early visuals.