Release date: 28/03/2025

Conscious Route’s latest track, ‘Humble Sons,’ sees him connect with London hip-hop veteran, Manage on production to deliver hard-hitting, hip-hop head-nodder.

The track opens with atmospheric keys before breaking out into a classic ‘funky drummer’ type beat that provides plenty of space for Conscious Route to weave his rhymes as he takes broad aim at the wrongs plaguing the UK. From the rise of right-wing popular politics, to racial profiling and the treatment of ethnic citizens and refugees, right though to the Royal Family’s child sex abuse scandal and cuts to the arts sector, this track calls out ills while bringing the focus back to hip-hop culture and the conflict between art and capitalism.

Manage keeps the production interesting as he flips the beat across the track while Conscious Route demands your attention with a flow that skips across subjects without losing the intensity required in the message. Forget the pop hooks or made-up gun talk, this is the kind of reality rap that UK hip-hop needs in 2025.