After the runaway success of his recent single “Cut Knuckles,” UK rap heavyweight Knucks announces his long-awaited second album, A Fine African Man, set for release on October 31st . The project arrives as the follow-up to his breakthrough debut Alpha Place, a record that cemented his standing as one of British rap’s sharpest storytellers.
That debut entered the UK Official Album Charts at No.3 and went on to share the 2022 MOBO Award for Album of the Year with Little Simz’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert—the first tie in the award’s history.
While Alpha Place painted a close-up portrait of Knucks’ early years growing up on a North London estate, A Fine African Man widens the lens. The album traces his passage into adulthood, balancing life between his roots in Nigeria and his upbringing in the UK. Its title plays on his Igbo name, Afam, and frames a deeply layered exploration of identity, inherited shame, masculinity, cultural displacement, and the reclamation of ancestral pride as a first-generation immigrant.