West London rapper Digga D finally unveils his hugely-anticipated project, Made In The Pyrex.
In 2019, Digga D’s “No Diet” lifted from debut mixtape Double Tap Diaries became a defining anthem of London’s sweeping drill sound. Armed with its explicitly instructional hook, the track stormed viral charts and workout playlists and looked set to pull the rapper a chair up at UK rap’s top table. This was all despite a 2018 order requiring him to receive police permission before releasing music, and forbidding the usage of certain lyrical terms and references. Life would get more complicated, however, soon after the success of “No Diet”. “I’m in jail—listening to all of these new rappers, thinking to myself: ‘They all sound like me!’” he tells Apple Music. “I’m hearing my ad-libs, and even my lyrics. That was happening.”
Made In The Pyrex sees Digga D mount a defence of his status, celebrate his freedom and toast an insatiable creative drive. “I could be in the middle of anything,” he says. “If I find the right stimulus, I’ll write.” Stimuli are in no short supply here. He fires out vivid, street fantasies (“Woi”), cleans up online dating rumours (“Toxic”) and lays subtle jabs at challengers for fun (“My Brucky”). Fuelled by a desire to finally express himself clearly despite his eventful rise, this second mixtape presents Digga D in his purest form. “We’re in the right place, right now,” he says. “We’ve even got Drake on drill now—it’s global. And it’s only gonna get bigger.”
