Armor fixed raw truth into UK rap with Hood Anxiety

East London rapper Armor cut straight through urban mythmaking with Hood Anxiety, taken from his LP Excuse My Mess, which dropped on January 8th alongside an official music video that refuses polish in favour of truth. Built around a cascade of bravado-stripping questions, the track pulls listeners into reflection while rejecting the glamourisation of a lifestyle that often reads as a bitter necessity rather than a sweet victory. The video sharpens that intent. It visualises the raw reality Armor waxes lyrical on, turning Hood Anxiety into one of the most bruising expositions UK rap has delivered in recent years. The darker realities of trap life sit in full in an era of austerity, when postcode disparity and institutional pressure remain impossible to ignore. Armor places those forces under a harsh light, fixing attention on the systems that decide who gets breathing room and who stays boxed in. Even under that lyrical gravity, charisma still hums through the track. Armor’s witty, cerebral wordplay carries a natural ease, giving the listener space to reflect without draining momentum. His smooth, impassioned cadence anchors the song, landing with the same contemplative weight found in voices like George the Poet and Kae Tempest, yet filtered […]

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