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Scotland’s hottest rapper Bemz has released new single ‘Zidane’ in time for his first major festival appearance at TRNSMT this weekend.

The garage-style banger is the rapper’s first single since 2021’s acclaimed EP M4.  Since the release of the EP, Bemz has been crowned as this year’s inaugural BBC Introducing Scottish Act Of The Year, before being championed by BBC 1Xtra as their Pick Of The Week with previous single ‘26’ making Track Of The Week. 

We interviewed Bemz earlier this year as he geared himself up to perform at the Queen's Hall last April. 'I'm a firm advocate for lyricism and I feel mine has got a bit better,' he told us. 'When I started I was rapping about the same old things: money, girls, blah, blah, blah. And none of it was actually true. Over the years, I swore to myself that I would stop making music like that and draw inspiration from my life to make music that I wanted to make, not music that I thought people wanted to hear.' Read the full interview in Issue 759 of The List. 

Listen to ‘Zidane’ below.