They often say that if you truly want to understand how your favourite artist is drawn to create the music that they make, you often have to discover the artists that have influenced them. Lord Apex is a rare character, his musical knowledge a rabbithole and that’s evident in the producers, musicians, artists and DJs that he works with. He’s a student of the game, someone who has a rich opinion about anything he puts his ears to—it’s traits like these that will set him apart from his peers in the future. The influences bleed out from beyond the confines of the music itself, you hear tones of Madlib, JDilla and MF DOOM-arguably the 2012 Miami Heat of rapper-producers. And that’s a pretty solid benchmark to look toward. Long before headlining his debut UK tour in 2020 and selling out Scala, AP’s show at the famed 100 Club in London’s West End cast him in anelite category of iconic artists that have passed through their doors,including The Clash, Sex Pistols,Oasis. After selling out his first UK tour in October 2020, Apex showed the world that he’s only just getting started.