A pioneer, a revolutionary, a father; Mikail Tafari has played a founding and influential role in the most phenomenal musical movements the UK has known. Son of a Jamaican soundman father and Welsh mother, raised in the concrete jungle of Broadwater Farm, Tottenham, music has run through this lion’s veins ever since he DJ’d at illegal dances in the 80s before he flourished as an artist across multiple disciplines and aliases. All chapters in Mikail’s life have their own story, legacy and footprint in UK music culture; with Double Trouble, Rebel MC, Tribe Of Issacher, X Project, Blackstar, Conquering Lion and the most enduring of all, Congo Natty – a name synonymous with the foundations of jungle music. Understanding jungle’s power to unite and break barriers, while weaving the positive affirmations of