Announced: Jim Legxacy – black british music (2025) LP & CD + ‘06 wayne rooney’ music video

Jim Legxacy shares the music video for ‘06 wayne rooney’, a crowd-igniting favourite from black british music (2025). It arrives alongside the announcement of the LP and CD versions of the mixtape now available to pre-order following a victorious headline tour across the major strongholds of the UK, and a sold-out tour in North America which starts this week.

A rapper with intensity, a vocalist with passion and a producer who harnesses nostalgia to command the future, Jim Legxacy is poised to define a generation. The video for ‘06 wayne rooney’ is directed by LAUZZA, the mind whose visuals for ‘father’ set the underground alight and announced the track as a modern classic in the UK rap pantheon. A love letter to FIFA dreams played out on digital stadiums and PlayStation screens, the video captures Jim Legxacy’s inner-city boyhood and evokes something in us we didn’t realise we’d left behind along the way. An essential voice in 2025, Jim’s prolific output forever tells an important story. His songwriting holds a mirror up to the Black British experience – one shared by himself and his peers. Standing proudly but humbly at the forefront of a new generation of storytellers and sonic pioneers, he champions complexity, sensitivity and experimentation. ‘3x’ calls upon upon Mercury Prize-winning rapper Dave underlining Jim’s reputation, but the project also makes space for voices emerging from the underground including Fimiguerrero and dexter in the newsagent. With black british music (2025), Legxacy doesn’t just reshape what UK music can sound like, but what it can stand for.

The mixtape follows recent single ‘stick’, released with a glitchy, fast-cut visual by Rohan Dil and partly shot on a Blackberry – a warp-speed portrait of Jim’s London coming of age. The track debuted via Plaqueboymax’s now-mythical livestream, featuring fellow underground heavyweights YT, Fimiguerrero and Len. It follows one of his most resonant tracks to date, ‘father’, before ramping up the anticipation for black british music (2025) by doing his first ever video chat on Kids Take Over. A musical shape-shifter, Legxacy is an artist with an internet’s worth of influences. Countering floor-filling cuts like ‘i just banged a snus in canada water’, there also is a radical vulnerability woven throughout the mixtape. Its narrative details an extraordinary story, charting the loss of his sister and grappling with the whiplash of being homeless to becoming one of the artists defining the UK landscape today.

Music has always formed part of Legxacy’s identity, with his ever evolving, kaleidoscopic sound pulling from RnB, soul, pop, grime, Midwest emo, Afrobeats and alternative. Since 2018, he has dropped multiple singles and two longer form projects ( Dynasty Program: A Metrical Composition Inspired by the Nights Spent as The Raiider; and Citadel) which displayed his artistic growth, versatility, and vulnerability, all whilst battling homelessness. 2023 saw him release his latest mixtape homeless n*gga pop music to widespread critical acclaim, which has brought us to a defining year in his career. Jim has already garnered support and cosigns from fellow artists including Mk.gee, Dean Blunt, Blood Orange, Dave, Skepta, JME, Imogen Heap and Jai Paul.

Stream now / pre-order the LP and CD versions of black british music (2025) here.