Yahoo Sports On my radar: Big Zuu's cultural highlights
Zuhair Hassan, better known as Big Zuu, is a rapper of Sierra Leonean and Lebanese descent born in 1995. He grew up in west London and rose to fame as part of the MTP Crew, alongside his cousin and fellow rapper AJ Tracey. In 2017, he released a fundraising track and video to support those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. Alongside making music, Zuu is also a passionate, self-taught cook and is launching a food show, Big Zuu’s Big Eats, on 15 May on Dave.
1. Video game
While everyone is in isolation, the makers of Call of Duty released this game and made it available for free. It’s a beta version, so they update it while you play. Me and my friends have been addicted to it. It’s battle royale, exactly like Fortnite. There’s a map that is constantly closing in, and you have to kill everyone and be the last people standing. There’s so much teamwork. It’s so good at a time like this, when your friends are all at home, you can take your mind off everything for a couple of hours and go into this virtual world.
2. Music
Chip x Skepta x Young Adz – Insomnia
Chip, Skepta and Young Adz are all very respected in the UK scene. For them to come together and do an album, I think it’s a sick project and it demonstrated a lot of art. It’s a fusion of trap and drill and they also have deep hip-hop records on there. The track High Road, where Chip is talking about not being a drug dealer and being an influential person in his area, that’s the thing I’ve always aspired to in my music, it’s a very positive message. A breath of fresh air.
3. TV
I’ve been watching season four of crime drama Money Heist. They do heists in different places each season, this time it’s the Bank of Spain. It’s the only thing that I can watch in full subtitles apart from Narcos. This is a programme that has no English in it and I absolutely love it. I love the way they talk. I love the way Nairobi rolls her Rs. There are so many twists in the stories that you never think would happen.
4. Food
Home cooking
I have not been ordering any food. My mum is against Deliveroo. She’d rather us eat broccoli and spinach than order a pizza so we have been cooking hard every day. I made a buttermilk fried chicken burger – I basically brought KFC to my house without having to order it. I made a vegan chickpea curry which was nice. Moussaka with lentils instead of meat. I made a pulled lamb shoulder. A lot of moreish, happy foods. Cooking is all about patience.
5. App
I love the live music battles on Instagram Live. T-Pain v Lil Jon was top notch. Also Scott Storch v Mannie Fresh. The UK has been doing its thing too. There was Afro B v NSG and Skepta and Jammer played the best grime riddims. Tory Lanez is the king of Instagram Live right now [with Quarantine Radio] and it’s sick being able to see all these artists that you look up to in his comments thread. It gives people that sense that we’re all doing the same thing. I might not be in a million-dollar mansion but we’re all on our iPhones. There’s unity.
6. Film
This film features Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver – the evil one from Star Wars. It’s very emotional. It’s about a woman getting with a man and then getting a divorce. It’s about the hard times they go through separating. They have a child. It’s a simple storyline, but the way they tell the story, it evoked so much emotion in me, it was told so well.
