London MC Kibo is on a mission to bring “a sense of magic” to life’s mundanity

“Mark Zuckerberg is my number one person I would like to donate some Kwengletarianism to,” Kibo declares, chuckling over Zoom. “I saw him do one interview where he was talking about sometimes he drinks coffee recreationally, and I was just like, ‘Oh, someone needs to get this guy a packet of pickled onion Monster Munch, a four-pack of Red Stripe, and let him listen to Max B’s greatest hits, and watch The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.’” The London MC’s self-devised mythology has come to define a lot of the chatter around him. It’s not a religion or a cult, but a way of making sense of the world, growing out of him slowly figuring out which things gave him a sense of inspiration and fantasy. His mates would call him Kwengletaire, and over time he began building a mythology around that feeling, eventually giving it a name: Kwengletarianism. It’s not cropped up out of nowhere though, as Kibo started building towards this ideology with 2022’s ‘FBFR4: Fuego Baby Furtardo Returns (Sorry 4 Da Longness)’ mixtape, a turbo-charged rap project that eventually disappeared from streaming services after a copyright dispute involving fellow rapper YT. From then onward, he kept making music...