Ain't No Rhyme

Album: On My One (2016)
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  • Jake Bugg recalled the story of this the blues-driven rap song. "It was an idea I had, this hip hop thing with a guitar groove. I recorded it with me rapping always thinking that I'd get somebody else in, a proper MC, to replace my vocals, but it ended up as it was."
  • Bugg penned the song in his hometown of Nottingham. "The rap's just about where I'm from, Clifton in Nottingham, which I sang about a lot on my first album and it hasn't changed," he said. "Every time you go back you can't avoid the horror stories and there was a stabbing in the news, so I wrote it while I was there and as things were happening."
  • After "Ain't No Rhyme" was released, Jake Bugg felt embarrassed about his attempt to rap. "It wasn't until after it came out that I was like, 'Why did I do that?'" he admitted to The Guardian, ruefully.

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