DRAM joins Lady Leshurr on new Yogi track "Cakin"

The North West London producer (now LA-based) continues to eke out a sound that blends the worlds of dance, hip-hop and trap with a distinctly pop accessibilty - while never losing the fire his featured artists bring. "Cakin'" delivers in spades. It's got a killer lyrical hook courtsey of Virginia-born DRAM and Lady Leshurr's verse, bringing refs to K-Swiss trainers straight from Birmingham and running over the beat "like Suge Knight."

"I made the beat while I was in LA in the summer of 2016 and as soon as I put the drums on the strings I felt like I was the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, and any time a beat makes me feel like that I know it's special," explains Yogi.

"I thought DRAM would enhance that flavour so I got him on it and then parked it, which is what I do with many of my songs," he adds. "I then met Leshurr and we really caught a vibe, I really felt where she was coming from as an artist so I left that meet in my brain for it to render. I then rearranged the song again and brought in a choir and went on the journey of taking the song, arrangement and production to the end of the rabbit hole."

An album's due next year, which Yogi describes as "a driving album" built around memories of cruising around London and Los Angeles, the different feelings each place evokes and the tunes he would play along the way. "I wanted to aspire make something like the Chronic 2001 of 2018," he says.