Lioness addresses the vicious colourism in the UK music industry, especially her male peers who actively perpetuate it by devaluing black women based on their shade. “DBT” which stands for “Dead Black Ting” evolved from a solo freestyle into a no-nonsense empowerment anthem for black british women.

Lioness, Queenie, Stush, Shystie, Lady Leshurr and Little Simz each step to the mic to testify their experiences and lay waste to any individual or instituition which ever made them feel ‘less than’.