Birmingham’s 0121 code has carried weight in UK rap for years from Jaykae to Lady Leshurr to M1llionz and LLINKS plugs into that lineage sideways, choosing introspection over bravado, precision over volume. ‘Faith’ arrives after ‘Loaded Gun,’ a collaboration with Mic Righteous that hit considerably harder in tone. This new single dials back the aggression and leans into something trickier to pull off.

Introspection, Craftsmanship, Authenticity

-PurpleMistress

The beat architecture does the heavy lifting here. Grit and grace occupying the same bar, the same breath. And the fact that it was entirely recorded, mixed, and mastered at home makes the polish feel deliberate rather than inherited, someone who chose to refine, methodically, on their own terms. Casey Bailey’s guest verse deserves its own paragraph. Birmingham’s former Poet Laureate (2020–2022), a BBC-commissioned writer behind ‘The Ballad of The Peaky Blinders,’ a playwright whose GrimeBoy sold out the Birmingham Rep Bailey brings a different gravity to a rap feature.