Heavyweight producer and key member of The Brigade, Sykes Beats has long been a pivotal figure in the drill scene, helping to sculpt the sound and give it its key sounds and signifiers. Now he's stepping into the spotlight and putting his own name above the door with new single "Chop It" with Headie One and Dezzie of OFB, with news that a Sykes mixtape is scheduled for later in the year.

Sykes has been one of the central driving forces behind drill's evolving production style and that's put front and centre here with a video from Suave that's as much about Sykes' jumpy drum patterns and searing samples as it is about Headie and Dezzie's back-to-back barring.