Foundry Presents: Young T & Bugsey

With 3 UK Official TOP 40s hits one being a TOP 10 it's safe to say Young T & Bugsy smashing the scene. 

Every movement needs a leader, a name, a home.
Welcome then to Young T & Bugsey, the two young kings who are bringing the 5 (a local term for Nottingham) outside central England’s Midlands region and into car speakers, stereos and raves across the country, charging ahead with their uniquely urgent sound. The merging of their Nigerian and Jamaican heritage and Notts upbringing is sprinkled with elements of rap, culminating in a bubbly tone that’s intoxicating, original, instantaneous and – in a stroke of deserved luck – Justin Bieber approved (the male solo star has been pictured vibing to the pair’s track “Gangland”).
Both aged twenty years old, Young T & Bugsey are energetic, charismatic personalities. They buzz in each other’s company, at times finishing each other’s sentences in a manner normally befitting of twins instead of two school friends. Though they long shared a mutual friend, T and Bugsey didn’t meet until they were 15 years old. From that moment on they started to make music together, bringing their undeniable chemistry into studio sessions where they originally recorded as part of a collective.
Between the bangers, the hooks, the ad-libs and the overall flavour of the music is the idea that Young T & Bugsey are having fun and want to use their music to bring more people together, to see more success all round. They might be putting the 5 on the map but they also don’t want to do it alone. Bugsey puts it like this: “When all is said and done this Nottingham thing is gonna be a ting, and man are gonna know we done a lot for it. To be honest I want it to be a thing where we take it as far as possible and the next yout smashes it.”