Wexford-London rapper Maverick Sabre is taking a slice of both sides

Maverick Sabre has no problem mixing his Wexford ways with a growing reputation in UK rap culture, writes Ed Power

MICHAEL Stafford has been away. It’s three years since we last heard from the Wexford-London rapper, who performs pop-infused hip hop as Maverick Sabre. His new album, Innerstanding, was originally penciled in for release in mid-2014, but was put back so that he could fine-tune the record’s sound and feel. Thirty-six months is a long, long time in music. What if his audience had moved on?

“If they’ve hung around, great; if they haven’t, well I just have to stay creative,” he says with a Wexford accent sprinkled with the occasional London inflection. “I was scheduled to put out my first new single just after I’d finished touring my previous LP. I wasn’t in the mind-frame. I hope people have stayed with me. If not, well I have to push on anyway. You can’t sit around worrying about these things.”