Akeem Jahat has been putting Singapore – and his beloved neighbourhood, Woodlands – on the hip-hop map since 2006. You know the rapper from his SeluDOPE mixtape, '$ua' or maybe even his feature on Disco Hue's 'Plastic Hearts'. To know Akeem's music is to love it – and to breathlessly anticipate the next release, which if you've been keeping tabs, has been some time coming.

Late last year, Bandwagon visited Akeem in the studio, where he got a fresh cut and sat for a multi-chapter interview on everything from his love of The Notorious B.I.G. and Mitch Albom, to his family and his new album, which will be out sometime this year.

Watch Bandwagon's interview with Akeem Jahat below: