CURTISY

Curtisy’s ascent feels like the natural next chapter in Ireland’s ongoing cultural purple patch. His trajectory has been swift but deliberate: an RTÉ Choice Prize nomination for his debut album “What Was The Question”, a BBC Radio 1Xtra debut with Caskkid, a widely-circulated Dazed profile that labelled him “one of the best rappers to ever come out of Ireland,” and a growing catalogue that doubles as a personal diary — candid, witty, self-deprecating, and bracingly honest.His music lives in the cracks between sharp humour and quiet melancholy, drawing comparisons to Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE but refusing to lose its Irish vernacular. Each track reads less like a performance and more like a conversation overheard, rooted in the working-class surroundings that shaped him.