SL - Tropical (music video)

London rapper SL, a south London native on the cusp of his 18th birthday, wears a mask. Sometimes it’s a black balaclava but usually it comes in different colours: white, olive drab, cool azure blue, a soft grey. Those muted shades pretty accurately represent his music – a term dubbed ‘tropical drill’, where the stark atmosphere of the genre is coupled with a melodic, colourful – and at times even playful – flow.