Over the past decade, hip-hop has relaxed its borders – welcoming in a flood of new styles, characters and concepts. One thing that still unites most rappers, however, is braggadocio; the aggressive, occasionally tiresome boasting that stems from raps battle past.

As a Zambia-born, Botswana-raised, Australia-based woman, Sampa Tembo belongs firmly in raps inclusive modern age but as her moniker suggests, shes no stranger to a spot of rampant egotism. Im boutta blow up soon / I aint wasting time chilling with you, she crows on Grass Is Greener.

Its fair to say that Tembos bragging is not your standard cars-and-girls inanity instead, she is careful to recontextualise her self-aggrandisement as righteous empowerment, using it to write an impassioned alternative to the narrative of western (and white) supremacy (Final Form, The Return), and emphasising the music industrys ex