UK rap legend Giggs stopped by Genius to discuss his song “Spiderman.” The song is off the MC’s latest album Zero Tolerance, his first album since his 2020 mixtape Now or Never. On today’s episode of Verified, find out the sweet inspirations behind hard hitting track.
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00:00 When I first started doing music, there weren't like no mainstream UK gangsters, like street
00:06 rappers. It used to be more like grime based 140 BPM or like House and Garage or like drum and bass.
00:13 So when I came with like hip hop and with a UK accent in the mainstream, I was like,
00:18 "Oh, what is this? This is whack." Started smashing up the game. Then they was looking
00:22 for new UK rappers. Then it was like, "Oh, gigs is whack. It's over for him." Then I came back
00:28 again, took the game to another level. I ain't going nowhere.
00:30 The beat's kind of wavy, but it's got like some emotional shit inside it too. And I think
00:42 because I started talking about my daughter, the guard was let down and then it just started
00:46 getting emotional.
00:48 "It's kind of mad. Got 'em hot, I'm chilling. Spider-fan, and they can't believe that. I'm
00:56 the man. Up in stockies like I'm Spider-Man." At that time, I was just watching Spider-Man
01:02 with my son the day before. I think it was the first Spider-verse. Little man loves Spider-Man.
01:06 So that was probably fresh in my head. It's hard.
01:10 "On the ocean with you. Bitch by the sand. I can say it wasn't, but it was kind of planned.
01:16 Let me take it back to where I began. A lot of niggas tried to bite my hand."
01:22 At the beginning of my career, hip hop didn't exist in UK like that. Even then, it was kind
01:29 of embarrassing to say you rap. I would be like, "Oh, what do you do?" Just this little
01:34 music thing. Even to this day now, if someone says, "Oh, what do you do?" I'll be hesitant
01:39 to say I rap. And then I think, "No, that's the shit now." But yeah, I rap.
01:42 Accolades. The main thing is just getting off the street. How do you measure success
02:00 for a man like me to get off the streets? How heavy I was in the streets. That's the biggest
02:06 success. I've never really cared about plaques like that. They're nice to look at and all,
02:10 but that Jada says, "My son can't eat those plaques."
02:12 I always have new bangers. And even if I ain't got a new banger,
02:29 the old bangers become the new bangers. Because with my music, I'm always in the future.
02:33 I drop a song like 2007, it's lit in 2024. Every summer I'm going to be lit.
02:39 Silent lamb, build a house off the rock.
02:42 By the land, that looks tasty, boys.
02:45 Kind of bland, you look tough if we go.