Era-defining talent Jim Legxacy shares the music video for ‘06 wayne rooney’, a crowd-igniting favourite from black british music (2025) on XL Recordings. It arrives alongside the announcement of the LP and CD versions of the mixtape now available to pre-order following a victorious headline tour across the major strongholds of the UK, and a sold-out tour in North America which starts this week.
A rapper with intensity, a vocalist with passion and a producer who harnesses nostalgia to command the future, Jim Legxacy is poised to define a generation. The video for ‘06 wayne rooney’ is directed by LAUZZA, the mind whose visuals for ‘father’ set the underground alight and announced the track as a modern classic in the UK rap pantheon. A love letter to FIFA dreams played out on digital stadiums and PlayStation screens, the video captures Jim Legxacy’s inner-city boyhood and evokes something in us we didn’t realise we’d left behind along the way.
An essential voice in 2025, Jim’s prolific output forever tells an important story. His songwriting holds a mirror up to the Black British experience – one shared by himself and his peers. Standing proudly but humbly at the forefront of a new generation of storytellers and sonic pioneers, he champions complexity, sensitivity and experimentation. ‘3x’ calls upon upon Mercury Prize-winning rapper Dave underlining Jim’s reputation, but the project also makes space for voices emerging from the underground including Fimiguerrero and dexter in the newsagent. With black british music (2025), Legxacy doesn’t just reshape what UK music can sound like, but what it can stand for.
The mixtape follows recent single ‘stick’, released with a glitchy, fast-cut visual by Rohan Dil and partly shot on a Blackberry – a warp-speed portrait of Jim’s London coming of age. The track debuted via Plaqueboymax’s now-mythical livestream, featuring fellow underground heavyweights YT, Fimiguerrero and Len. It follows one of his most resonant tracks to date, ‘father’, before ramping up the anticipation for black british music (2025) by doing his first ever video chat on Kids Take Over.
A musical shape-shifter, Legxacy is an artist with an internet’s worth of influences. Countering floor-filling cuts like ‘i just banged a snus in canada water’, there also is a radical vulnerability woven throughout the mixtape. Its narrative details an extraordinary story, charting the loss of his sister and grappling with the whiplash of being homeless to becoming one of the artists defining the UK landscape today.
Music has always formed part of Legxacy’s identity, with his ever evolving, kaleidoscopic sound pulling from RnB, soul, pop, grime, Midwest emo, Afrobeats and alternative. Since 2018, he has dropped multiple singles and two longer form projects (Dynasty Program: A Metrical Composition Inspired by the Nights Spent as The Raiider; and Citadel) which displayed his artistic growth, versatility, and vulnerability, all whilst battling homelessness. 2023 saw him release his latest mixtape homeless n*gga pop music to widespread critical acclaim, which has brought us to a defining year in his career. Jim has already garnered support and cosigns from fellow artists including Mk.gee, Dean Blunt, Blood Orange, Dave, Skepta, JME, Imogen Heap and Jai Paul.
Pre-order the LP and CD versions of black british music (2025) from Jim Legxacy’s official store.
Jim Legxacy
black british music (2025)
XL Recordings
(black british music (2025) artwork – Hi-Res HERE)
Tracklisting
- context
- stick
- new david bowie
- sun ft. Fimiguerrero
- ‘06 wayne rooney
- issues of trust
- father
- d.b.a.b
- big time forward
- sos
- i just banged a snus in canada water
- dexters phone call ft. dexter in the newsagent
- 3x – ft. Dave
- tiger driver ‘91
- brief
Praise for Jim Legxacy:
“From Aphex Twin to Jai Paul, the UK has a proud tradition of tinkerers creating whole worlds in their bedrooms. Legxacy could be the next in that lineage” – P4K’s 100 Best Albums of 2020’s So Far
“Gliding over a lightly-crafted beat, Legxacy dodges explosive words thrown his way and lobs his own ammunition back, questioning how many more times he can feel this way. It’s a song fueled by spite and malice, while also capturing the British artist’s ability to capture emotional turmoil and render it in technicolour.” – FADER
“With “aggressive”, Jim Legxacy continues to push the boundaries of UK music, delivering something fresh yet rooted in familiar influences.” – GRM
“What Legxacy is building is more than fandom, it’s community… At his first live show, his prowess is palpable, but it’s his radical tenderness and resilient optimism which makes his glow all the brighter.” – CLASH
“One of Britain’s brightest talents, Jim Legxacy is a paradigm of modern artistry.” – Wonderland
“The track showcases Jim’s melodic vocals over a smooth, melancholic dancehall beat, cementing his place as a unique voice in the new wave of Black British music.” – DMY
“The fast-rising multi-hyphenate’s latest single pairs forward-thinking production with his own unique falsetto vocals.” – RA
“The British singer-producer continues to make gorgeously singular and fleet-of-foot pop-R&B” – The Guardian
“Black British Music is almost upon us and when it drops we could well see an already blossoming career emerge in full flourish.” – Mixtape Madness
“As British music as a whole begins to articulate a future beyond these genres, Jim Legxacy is a welcome presence on the scene, imagining a distant yet intimate sonic future in which influences from grime, drill, afrobeat and pop all intertwine.” – Dazed
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